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Mohammed Bin Salman lättar på landets strama tyglar. Kommentar av CMES Dalia Abdelhady. Den saudiske kronprinsen Mohammed Bin Salman har väckt internationell uppmärksamhet med sin reformvänliga linje. Sedan han utsågs till kronprins 2017, kan kvinnor nu köra bil, gå på fotbollsmatcher och resa utan manligt tillstånd. Kosmetiska förändringar anser kritiker. 2020-01-08
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/de-saudiska-reformerna-mest-en-fasad - 2025-11-27
Message from the director: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World wish all staff, guest and affiliated researchers, alumni, and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please enjoy a well-deserved break with families and friends. The new year will bring new challenges as well as new experiences and possibilities.To the full v
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-6-december-2019 - 2025-11-27
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies har during the fall been holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global politics, with a focus on the Middle East, North Africa and citizens in the Diaspora. The last distinguished guest was Jessica Winegar - a sociocultural anthropologist whose work investigates how people articulate understandings of history and political-economi
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/last-part-passion-and-politics-conversation-series - 2025-11-27
Today CMES director Ronny Berndtsson and Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi attended a roundtable and workshop in Stockholm, discussing the relations between Sweden and the Gulf states. Roundtable: Towards a Culture of Understanding or Cultural Understanding? Workshop: Gulf Culture Full programThe workshop was arranged by Euro-Gulf Information Centret (EGIC) - an initiative that aims to build social, politica
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/human-touch-intercultural-dynamics-arab-gulf-sweden-relations - 2025-11-27
Maria Frederika Malmström defended her thesis in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, in 2009. Now she is back to talk about her new book. Since then she has continued her thought-provoking research and teaching on Egypt and the broader MENA region – working as a lecturer and visiting scholar at Högskolan Väst, Nordic Africa Institute, New York University
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-launch-afterwork-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-11-27
Offensive jokes is a part of racism towards muslims. How is this regarded in Swedish courts? "This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden—a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults—Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on iss
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice - 2025-11-27
The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment and transfer of knowledge/
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2025-11-27
The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics (Poland). AbstractSince the late 20th century, the issue of accommod
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-muslim-minorities-europe-and-india - 2025-11-27
SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and s
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-11-27
For the third year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-11-27
SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-afghan-asylum-seekers - 2025-11-27
On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keeping a pluralistic society b
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-met-ycf-2016-group-malmo - 2025-11-27
On 14 March 2017, 16.15-18.00 The Network for Asian Studies' (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo will hold its Annual Lecture 2017: "Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1969". Venue: Morgenstiernes hus, Arne Næss auditorium, Blindern, Oslo. This year, Andrew G. Walder from Stanford University offers new insights into the Cultural Revolution in China. In the first four years after the onset
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-annual-lecture - 2025-11-27
On 23 June 2017 the Conference "Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses" will be held at the University of Sheffield, Uk. Abstract deadline is 23 April. This conference aims to look at the material histories and lives of subaltern women. In her 1988 essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak extends the definition of the ‘subaltern’, going beyond “strict
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sheffield-conference-subaltern-womens-narratives - 2025-11-27
The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-11-27
The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-11-27
Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three conferences seeks to promote research and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-11-27
On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the past few years in South Asia. In India, critics argue that the rise of the BJP,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-11-27
The 2017 Women in Asia (WIA) conference will be held at the University of Western Australia on 26-28 September. Deadline for submissions is 31 March 2017. The Women in Asia (WIA) Conference continues a tradition started by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Women’s Caucus (now Women’s Forum) in 1981.This will be the first time this Conference has been held on the west coast, and it
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/women-asia-conference-western-australia - 2025-11-27
A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, within the research project “Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives: Ritual Intersections and the Proscription of Religious Offense”. Application deadline is 13 March 2017. The Fellowship is funded by The Research Council of Norway, and the post-doctoral research fello
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-position-available-university-oslo - 2025-11-27
