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Varför använder Ryssland fortfarande morsekod? Är värnplikt mer jämlikt? Två frågor som Tony Ingesson, statsvetare och expert i underrättelseanalys, reflekterar över i två mycket lästa artiklar på plattformen The Conversation. Tony Ingessons ena artikel, om värnplikt, har 26 000 läsningar och den andra, om morsekod, har över 40 000. De båda artiklarna är två av de mer lästa från Lunds universitet

https://www.sam.lu.se/internt/artikel/vagen-fran-ide-till-popular-artikel-i-conversation - 2025-11-07

Kognitionsforskaren Stephan Reber är en av forskarna som tilldelas årets IgNobelpris för sin forskning om alligatorers ljud. I en studie från 2015 undersökte man vad som händer om en alligator får andas in helium. Syftet är att ta reda på om krokodildjur har så kallade resonansljud i sin röst, något en del andra djur använder för att visa hur stora de är. – Jag är extremt glad och tacksam för det

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskning-om-alligator-pa-helium-ger-ignobelpris-till-lundaforskare - 2025-11-08

Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are India’s domestic politics and its interaction with the foreign policy. He is curre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2025-11-07

The Department of Religion at Florida State University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure track Assistant Professor in Religions of South Asia to begin on August 7, 2018. Specialization is open, but preference is for competency in Hindu and/or Buddhist traditions in India with an excellent command of Sanskrit and/or other relevant Asian languages, so as to complement existing dep

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-religions-south-asia - 2025-11-07

The latest issue of Asia in Focus - issue no. 11 has just been published. This issue features three thought-provoking articles on anti-cult measures, student protests, and shadow education. In this issue you will find three thought-provoking articles that in different ways relate to students and education: "Anti-Cult Measures at Universities in Japan: The Production of Knowledge on Religion as a C

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-11-out-now - 2025-11-07

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/one-year-visiting-position-available-south-asian-history - 2025-11-07

The war in Gaza is testing alliances and shaking up politics, both globally and regionally. What does this mean for the West's relationship with the Middle East? How are inter-regional dynamics affected? And what is the impact of the war in Israel? Read an interview with Karin Aggestam, Political Scientist and Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. What geopolitical consequenc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitics-and-diplomacy-wake-gaza-war - 2025-11-07

We are thrilled to share the exciting news of Gina's submission to the 2023-24 International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) Research Article Competition being awarded the winner of the Social Sciences category. The article titled “Going weigen: Animals, climate, and the new vegan movement in Taiwan” will be published in the IJTS after appropriate revision. You can read more about the IJTS Resear

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-our-phd-candidate-gina-song-lopez - 2025-11-07

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-article-conversation-about-panamas-decision-leave-belt-and-road - 2025-11-07

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-32-our-emp-programme - 2025-11-08

During the week 9-13 September 2013, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund visited universities in London, networking with researchers working on South Asia related projects. The universities included Westminster University, London School of Economics and Political Science, and SOAS at University of London.  University of WestminsterWeb page:www.westminster.ac.ukLars first went to Westminster Univers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-lars-eklunds-visit-london-universities-september-2013 - 2025-11-07

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2025-11-07

Hui Zhao and Chiara Valentini are the recipients of the Karen Miller Russell Award for the Most Downloaded Article published in the Journal of Public Relations Research.  They received the award on 7th August from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) the 106th Annual Conference. The awarded paper is Navigating Turbulent Political Waters: From Corporate Politic

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/reward-most-downloaded-article - 2025-11-07

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University launched the South Asia Initiative in 2018. The South Asia Initiative produces both research and analysis. In doing so, it aims to build a strong research environment with an international impact. The South Asia Initiative website will feature a blog that disseminates knowled

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-blog-about-south-asia-initiative - 2025-11-07

McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative study and inquiry, both maritime and littoral, of the Indian Ocean world--a macro-region running from ea

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2025-11-07

On Friday May 15:th, two of our phd students, Hui Zhao and Rickard Andersson, nailed down their thesis’. Nailing is a Swedish academic ritual in connection with the presentation of a doctoral dissertation. Three weeks before the dissertation, the thesis must be published, and from this date, the University must provide the thesis so that anybody who would like to read it in order to be able to mak

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/double-nailing-dissertations-strategic-communication - 2025-11-07

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2025-11-08

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. Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-project-precariousness-work-funded-swedish-research-council - 2025-11-07

LUCSUS researcher Kim Nicholas shares her views on Donald Trump’s announcement he will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and highlights that all of us together can tackle climate change.- As I see it the Paris Agreement signals the world’s commitment to maintain a living, and livable, planet - now and for future generations, she says.According to Kim Nicholas limiting further climate change by ra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/future-good-life-planet-earth-requires-rapid-transformation-zero-carbon-emissions-kimberly-nicholas - 2025-11-07

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/collision-between-genes-and-life-style - 2025-11-07