Published 18 January 2018 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University are launching a collaboration focusing on India and South Asia. The long-term collaboration will include both research and analysis and aims at building a strong research environment of international quality. Asia is becoming an increasingly importan

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Published 25 January 2018 On Wednesday 21 Februari 15,15 Dr. Henrik Chetan Aspengren, will hold a talk entitled: “’Is India rising? Reflections on Indian foreign policy and its limitations'" 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! In this lecture I will give a broad historic overview of India’s

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Published 29 January 2018 SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini have published an article in the Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies entitled "Circumscribed Recognition: creating a space for young queer people in Delhi". The Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies  is edited by Corinne L. Mason and it is described as an essential guide for scholars, upper level students, pr

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Published 30 January 2018 As a further step in the collaboration between the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University we are now launching a series of podcasts on India and South Asia. The project manager for this podcast is Henrik Chetan Aspengren, who is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In the first episode Profess

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Published 6 February 2018 Andreas Johansson, researcher and head of SASNET, was interviewed on Swedish Radio (Studio Ett) about the latest development in the Maldives, including what this development means for Maldivian democracy. You can listen to the interview here Stuio ett kväll 5 februari (In Swedish).

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Published 9 February 2018 SASNET director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation entitled "Maldives crisis: a bitter religious divide comes to the fore". Read the article here.  https://theconversation.com/maldives-crisis-a-bitter-religious-divide-comes-to-the-fore-91455

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Published 5 March 2016 During the spring 2016, Professor Amit Prakash from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi works as ICCR Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He is the second in a planned row of four consecutive ICCR guest professors in Uppsala– the first was Professor Siddharth Singh,

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Published 15 February 2018 SASNET director Andreas Johansson has published an article in openDemocracy entitled "Sri Lanka local elections: the return of Rajapaksa". In the article he analyzes the latest elections in Sri Lanka Read the articel here  

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Published 16 February 2018 On Monday 23 April 15.00-17-00 there will be a panel discussion on state building in Afghanistan in a global context at Edens hörsal, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! With its strategic location Afghanistan has been a focus of global politics for many centuries. Despite its fragile nation-sta

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Published 23 February 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in The Conversation on the recent Pashtun protests in Pakistan. The article is entitled "Pakistan's 'Pashtun Spring' pits human rights demands against War on Terror politics". Read the articel here

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Published 23 February 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published a brief in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper Series entitled "The impact of forced migration on Afghanistan's domestic politics and foreign relations". The brief was first presented as a working paper at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read the brief here 

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Published 23 February 2018 On international women's day March 8, 17.00-20.00, there will be a film Screening of the movie India’s Daughter at Stora Algatan 4 International Desk at Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! India's Daughter narrates the story of an ordinary girl with an extremely cruel life experience which broke the silence around rape culture

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Published 5 March 2016 The complete SASNET Work Report 2015 (Verksamhetsberättelse) was published on 29 February 2016. It contains an extensive summary of the work being done by SASNET at Lund University in 2015, in Swedish. An impressive amount of activities have been carried out, including a major research conference in May, and two South Asia Media Project workshops in the fall.An external eval

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Published 23 February 2018 On Wednesday 25 April 13.00-15-00 SASNET is hosting a seminar on the Afghan Shia: Politics, Piety, and Diaspora in LUX Building, B417. Welcome! Robert D. Crews The talk by Robert D. Crews, Professor of History at Stanford University, examines the revolutionary politics of Shi’i communities in Afghanistan and the diaspora from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the e

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Published 26 February 2018 On Friday 16, 09.00-10.30, there will be a lecture on Indian independent documentary at Gamla Kirurgen, floor 3 at Lund University. The event is a collaboration with School of Journalism and the event is open to everyone. The documentary participant is largely a site of anxiety, viewed through the discourse of documentary image ethics and its construction of moral obliga

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Published 6 March 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in openDemocracy which discusses the evidence for a populist myth about immigration courts and public opinion. Read the articel here

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Published 13 March 2018 On Tuesday 3 April 16.00-17.30 SASNET is pleased to invite everyone for the launch of the new book Miraklet Indien och dess baksida. The book is edited by former SASNET employees Lars Eklund and Staffan Lindberg at Eden 131, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund University. The event is open to the public. Indian delights will be served! With contributions from, among others, Kenneth Bo Ni

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Published 21 March 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on Afghan asylum seekers in Sweden in the journal Nidaba: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies.  The aricle can be accessed here:

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Published 21 March 2018 The Nordic Centre in India announces two new grants for its member universities. NCI will be supporting collaborative academic activities between member universities and Indian higher educational institutions through Academic Activity Grants that will be announced twice a year NCI will also support travel grants to India. As Lund University is a member of NCI employees at o

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Published 29 March 2018 Andreas Johansson, researcher and head of SASNET, was interviewed by Utrikes Magasinet about the role of religion in the Maldives, including what this development means for Maldivian democracy. Read the interview here (in Swedish)

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/religion-maldives - 2025-07-07