Published 3 October 2017 On Wednesday 4 October 2017, 10.00-10.20 Andindita Datta held a lecture entitled: "Misogyny, media and resistances to genderscapes of online hate: Of Bharat Mata and Bharat ki Mata" in room M:226 at the Department of gender studies (Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14M). The lecture is part of the Global Gender Matters Workshop organised by the Department of gender studies. Research o

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Published 3 October 2017 Dr. Anindita Datta arrived in Lund as a guest researcher at Lund University for ten days (1-11 October). SASNET provided her with an office during her time here. Anindita Datta is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests are in the area of feminist geography, conceptual traditions in geogra

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Published 10 October 2017 Dr. Khaleda Gani Dutt and Dr. Liz Adams Lyngbäck were successful in the Planning Grant application submitted to the Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University earlier in June this year. Both Dr. Khaleda Gani Dutt and Dr. Liz Adams Lyngbäck are working as a University Lecturers at the Department of Special Education at Stockholm University.The main purpose of the Foru

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Published 13 October 2017 Members of NCI The Nordic Centre in India announces a spring internship position for the NCI India Liaison Office for 2018. The deadline for receiving applications is the 31st of October, 2017. The purpose is to provide the intern with exposure to hands on experience on the working in an organisation that works in the area of international higher educational collaboration

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Published 16 October 2017 Religious Studies at Karlstad University needs to recruit a senior lecturer with expertise in Islam, and preferably also in areas such as globalisation, migration, cultural meetings and research experience in empirical quantitative and/or qualitative methods. This is a full-time, non-fixed term position with starting date by agreement.Religious Studies at Karlstad Univers

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Published 16 October 2017 Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute invites applications for a full-time, twelve-month teaching position in Buddhist Studies starting on August 15, 2018. This position may be extended depending on funding and department need.The Assistant Professor will teach graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Buddhist Studies. A PhD i

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Published 16 October 2017 Call for papers for the panel on "Producing and consuming photography in South Asia" at the 25th ECSAS conference. ECSAS 2018 is taking place at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, from 24 to 27 July 2018. This panel seeks contributions pertaining to the history of the commercial practices and popular uses of photography in South Asia betw

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Published 16 October 2017 Call for paper for dissertation workshop on ethnography of connections to be held 20th November 2017 at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world. As scholarly attention increasingly shifts to th

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Published 30 October 2017 SASNET and Sydasien form an exciting collaboration that will help disseminate news and research about South Asia to a broader audience. The magazine Sydasien is an important channel for spreading news and analyses about South Asia in the Swedish language. Sydasien was founded in 1977. First appearing in print, Sydasien transitioned into an online-only format in 2011 (www.

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Published 31 October 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo wrote an article for the Times Literary Supplement entitled "Permanent crisis of legitimacy". Afghanistan is an ethnicity with a state. That is the bottom line of Niamatullah Ibrahimi’s book, which maps the political relationships between the Pashtun-dominated nation and the Hazaras, Afghanistan’s third largest ethnic group (after the Tajiks)

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Published 31 October 2017 The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce its second Annual Conference on South Asia, to be held from Thursday 26 April to Friday 27 April 2018 at Dublin City University, Ireland. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and

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Published 31 October 2017 The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges and the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American studies, to begin July 1, 2018. The Department is seeking a scholar who approaches history from an interdisciplinary p

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Published 31 October 2017 The History Department at Denison University invites applications for a one-year visiting position in the history of the Middle East or South Asia to begin in Fall 2018. Teaching responsibilities in a 3/3 load include a two-semester introductory survey sequence in the Middle East or South Asia and upper level seminars in the candidate’s areas of expertise. Ability to teac

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Published 31 October 2017 On Monday 30 October 13.15, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler held a lecture entitled: "Jewish identity and literature in contemporary India" at LUX. The lecture was organised by SASNET and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. The focus of the lecture were three Indo-Jewish authors, two in English and one in Hindi: Nissim Ezechiel, Esther David a

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Published 31 October 2017 The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University seeks to appoint a full-time, tenured faculty member in a field in the Asian Humanities beginning in Fall, 2018. The Department welcomes candidates who work across multiple genres and media, from classical to contemporary periods, and in any Asian languages. They are particularly interested in a sch

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Published 7 November 2017 On Tuesday 21 November Otso Harju, PhD student in Gender studies at the University of Helsinki, held a lecture on "Power, learning and the politics of friendship in intercultural fieldwork" at Asian Studies. In 2016 Otso Harju conducted a fieldwork for his Master thesis with the help of SASA travel grant. Feminist fieldwork – power, learning and the politics of friendship

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Published 7 November 2017 Photo: Camilla Lekebjer SASNET researcher Maria Tonini together with Lisa Eklund, Catarina Kinnvall and Helle Rydström at Lund University will start a Research Project entitled "Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women Employees in Nordic Companies Outsourced to Asia". The project will be funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) for three years. Precari

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Published 14 November 2017 Photo: Celia Boltes Celia Boltes, journalist student at Lund University, received SASA travel grant in the spring of 2017. In September 2017 she travelled to Nepal for a field work. Celia has now returned to Lund and has written a report. Celia Boltes' report:During the spring of 2017 I was happy to achieve the South Asian Student Association's travel grant. I had been t

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Published 14 November 2017 On September 22-24, SASNET researcher Maria Tonini joined the 2017 EASAS Doctoral Workshop as a senior scholar. The workshop took place in the breathtaking island of Procida, off the Gulf of Naples, Italy. At the EASAS workshop, 15 doctoral students from EASAS partner universities had the opportunity to present a text from their dissertation and receive in-depth feedback

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Published 14 November 2017 Ramakrishnan and Johansson In October the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson visited New Delhi. During this visit he discussed possibilities for collaborations between different institutions in India and Lund University. Andreas together with the Nordic Center of India (NC) met with professor A K Ramakrishnan at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and discussed the

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