Published 22 November 2017 The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) at Ashoka Trust for Research and the Environment (ATREE) invites applications for a Department of Science and Technology supported project on `Adapting to and mitigating ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate change: Training and capacity building’. The Coordinator will be based in Bangalore and will be respons

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Published 22 November 2017 The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, with the narrower field of expertise open. The successful applicant will be qualified to teach advanced (3rd- and 4th-year) Persian language courses, and wi

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Published 22 November 2017 Photo: Noria Three years after its debut, the Noria South Asia Program (SAPROG) is pleased to invite you to its third South Asia Research Workshop, organized in collaboration with the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) and held January 24th at INALCO - 2 rue de Lille, 75007. The Workshop is intended for PhD and advanced MA students in the

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Published 22 November 2017 The conference on Anxiety and Authority in South Asia will be held on April 6-7, 2018 in Princeton, NJ. At a time when a politics of anxiety appears to have led to a surge in populism across the world, this conference invites applicants to probe anxiety as a public phenomenon in South Asia in both historical and contemporary contexts. Papers may engage, but need not limi

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Published 22 November 2017 The department of History at The Wagner College seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of South Asia, Africa or the Middle East and the history of Islam to begin Fall 2018. Teaching requirements include introductory Global History survey course, as well as upper-level courses on Africa, the Middle East or South Asia and Islam.  Candidates are expected to

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Published 30 November 2017 The peer-reviewed journal "Asia in Focus", published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, is now seeking full papers for its sixth issue. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2018. Asia in Focus provides Master students and Ph.D. students affiliated to a European institution a widely accessible and transnational forum to publish their fi

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Published 30 November 2017 The Department of History at Reed College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, with a specialization in modern or early modern African, Middle Eastern, or South Asian history. This is a one-year position with a possibility for renewal. In addition to teaching courses in their own area, the appointee may also contribute to the

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Published 30 November 2017 Photo: LUMS Call for Papers for LUMS Annual Conference on Courts and Politics in Pakistan to be held on 14-15 March 2018. The conference is jointly organized by the Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) and the Shaikh Ahmed Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL). The conference will focus on the role of higher courts in dealing with cases concern

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Published 21 November 2017 On Wednesday 8 November Amrita Ghosh held a seminar entitled: "Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan" at the Department of Gender Studies. The seminar was organized by the Department of Gender Studies and SASNET. Her seminar focused on a Partition film titled, Silent Waters (2003) and argued that it subverts patriarchal religio-nati

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Published 30 November 2017 On Thursday 23 November SASA representative Phu Doma Lama Ph.D student from the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, held a talk entitled: “Exploring the consequences of adaptation to changes: The case of mobility and gender in Maldives” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The event was organized by SASA. Abstract her talk: Communities in Maldives have

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Published 6 December 2017 Photo: Wikimedia The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in South Asian, Southeast Asian or Chinese history, beginning Fall semester 2018. The rank will be Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor depending on qualifications. Candidates should have or be close to completing the Ph.D. Teachin

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Published 6 December 2017 The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, invites applications for its Conference "India @ 70 Memories and Histories" to be held 3-4 January 2018. India celebrated the 70th year of its Independence on 15th August 2017. Celebratory national histories, in their enthusiasm to commemorate the giant strides made by the Indian nation in the last seven d

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Published 13 December 2017 On Saturday 9 December 2017, 14-17 Kino screened the movie 'Parched' followed by a conversation with Maria Tonini and Sarah Bodelson. Almost 200 people showed up to watch the movie! The event was organized by SASNET/SASA in collaboration with Kino, Swallows India Bangladesh and ABC. ‘PARCHED’ is a story about women set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Rajasthan

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Published 18 December 2017 Photo: Leiden University In June 2018 Leiden University will host a two day conference - Modalities of Displacement - that will discuss 'displacement' in its multiple vectors and possibilities. The conference is jointly organized by the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), the Anthropology Department, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leide

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Published 14 December 2017 Photo: IIAS Brill Academic Publishing, the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Leiden University invite submissions from scholars in area studies, social sciences, humanities, law, computer sciences, and from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to the 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia (DIAS) conference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 29

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Published 18 December 2017 Photo: Ambedkar University Ambedkar University calls for papers for conference on "Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities" to be held 25-26 October 2018 in New Delhi, India. Northeast India, located on India's periphery, is a region whose socio-cultural world exhibits more similarities with Southeast Asia region than with that of South Asia. Such perc

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Published 4 January 2018 On Thursday 18 January 16.15 Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg, will hold a talk entitled: “Universities as Workplace: Gender Discrimination and Work-Life Balance.” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! Prof Nishi Mitra vom Berg from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mu

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Published 9 January 2018 During November 2017, the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, traveled to Colombo to look into the possibility of establishing a new SASNET study center in South Asia. He met with several research institutions and discussed possibilities for collaborations. All of the institutions that Andreas met with expressed a wish to collaborate with SASNET. In the end a very fruit

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Published 9 January 2018 The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi, India encourages visiting scholars to apply for their visiting fellowships program. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, met with the director of West Asian (Middle Eastern) Centre at IDSA, Meena Roy Singh (picture), during his visit in October 2017 in order to discuss further collaborations between

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Published 11 January 2018 Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies is an open access, online, peer-reviewed Nordic yearbook devoted to South Asian Studies published by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University. Chakra invites submissions of manuscript articles and reviews to be published in late 2018 (Volume V). (http://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/chakra-a-nordic-jou

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