By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 22 November 2023 Photo: Madelaine Hallerdal, WithSecure WithSecure visited the Department of Informatics on their European Cyber Tour, allowing students on our Bachelor's programme to get hands-on experience with the handling of cyber threats in a simulated environment. On October 30th, 2023, students taking the course IS an

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Published 29 October 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo presented a paper entitled "The internationalized state and conflicts: The Afghan diaspora and Afghan statebuilding since 1979" at the international Refugees, Borders and Membership Conference, held at Malmö University October 24-26. Read more about the conference here. 

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Published 30 October 2018 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation on the political crisis in Sri Lanka. The article is entitled "Sri Lanka: constitutional crisis triggers fears of ‘bloodbath’". Read the articel here.

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Published 19 November 2018 SASNET invites students to apply for an internship. SASNET is a network at Lund University that promotes and encourages research and education on South Asia. SASNET organizes seminars, conferences, and offers grants to students who want to conduct fieldwork in South Asia. SASNET also offers grants to researchers who want to write an application for research projects on S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/internship-opening-sasnet - 2024-12-26

Published 20 November 2018 The magazine Sydasien (www.sydasien.se) 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. Read the new issue sydasien_nr2_2018_lowres.pdf . Through a new collaboration between Sydasien and SASNET the magazine on

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Published 5 December 2018 SASNET invites students to apply for an student assistant position, 20%. SASNET is a network at Lund University that promotes and encourages research and education on South Asia. SASNET organizes seminars, conferences, and offers grants to students who want to conduct fieldwork in South Asia. SASNET also offers grants to researchers who want to write an application for re

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Published 7 December 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Migration Policy journal Migration Information Source entitled "Sweden: By Turns Welcoming and Restrictive in its Immigration Policy." Read the articel here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo - 2024-12-26

Published 11 December 2018 SASNET is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). SASNET produces and disseminates knowledge and research about South Asia in three principal ways. First, SASNET produces knowledge about South Asia through r

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Published 13 December 2018 Andreas Johansson, Director of SASNET, published a brief for the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore on the role of Muslim Politics in the Sri Lanka political crisis. Read it here. 

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Published 13 December 2018 SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars.   After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking p

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Published 19 December 2018 On December 12, 2018, Anna Lindberg, affiliated researcher at SASNET, attended an International Conference on Afghanistan, organized in Stockholm by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). The aim of the conference was to address local Afghani perspectives on peace building, and explore the role of development partners, humanitarian actors, civil society, and others

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-international-conference-afghanistan - 2024-12-26

Published 9 January 2019 Earlier this week SASNET received a message that the founder and former director of SASNET, Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg has died. It is with great sadness that we learned of Staffan’s passing. Staffan was to the very end very active in SASNET, not only as a mentor to current director Andreas Johansson, but also, for his contributions to seminars and publications. J

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/staffan-lindberg-memoriam-1943-2019 - 2024-12-26

Published 15 January 2019 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation entitled, "Maldives: new president must ward off threats from Islamic extremism, foreign powers and autocratic rivals" Read it here

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Published 21 January 2019 Manpreet K. Janeja, Parama Sinha Palit and Rishi Jha join SASNET as affiliated researchers. Manpreet K. Janeja holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India). Her work so far has focused on three major concerns that straddle the ‘public’ and ‘p

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Published 23 January 2019 During 2018 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations both within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through seminars, publications, networking, and conferences. web_verkbroschyr_a4_andreas.pdf

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Published 25 January 2019 Andreas Mattsson from the School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University and Vibodh Parthasarathi from Jamia Millia Islamia joins SASNET as affiliated researchers during 2019. Andreas Mattsson is a lecturer and program director at School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. He is also the coordinator for

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Published 25 January 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo was interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan and the recent deportations of Afghans from Sweden in Svenska Dagbladet. Read it here (paywall) 

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Published 30 January 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Parama Sinha Pali has published an article in the Rising Powers Quarterly entitled "India’s Use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy." R ead it here.

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Published 4 February 2019 During 2019 Hanna Geschewski and Ulrika Andersson will work at SASNET as student assistants with different tasks regarding communication and seminars. Hanna Geschewski is pursuing her Master’s in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES). Hanna spent nine years in Nepal and India. Hanna was able to grasp the natural and cultural diversity and societal and h

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Published 5 February 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Journal of Refugee Studies entitled "Long and Short Arms of the State: Swedish Multidirectional Controls of Afghan Asylum Seekers During the Cold War" Abstract of the article:Drawing on unique sources from the Swedish Migration Agency Archive, this article examines how Afghan asylum seekers and refug

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-admir-skodo - 2024-12-26