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Call for papers for the fall issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives

Published 3 February 2017 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 const

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-04-03

Conference on Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia

Published 4 February 2017 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 see

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-04-03

South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) meeting in Edinburgh

Published 7 February 2017 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-04-03

Women in Asia Conference in Western Australia

Published 27 February 2017 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/women-asia-conference-western-australia - 2025-04-03

Post-Doctoral position available at University of Oslo

Published 28 February 2017 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 p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-position-available-university-oslo - 2025-04-03

Book Launch at the Royal Asiatic Society in London

Published 15 February 2017 Photo from RAS Book launch of Bérénice Guyot-Réchard’s book: ‘Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962’, at the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) on Thursday 2nd March, 18.30-21.00. Venue: The Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London. Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 196

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-royal-asiatic-society-london - 2025-04-03

Oslo Lecture on the language of ancient Afghanistan

Published 28 February 2017 Photo from Dnva On 7 March 2017, 18.00 Nicholas Sims-Williams will hold a lecture entitled: "From philology to history: Deciphering the language of ancient Afghanistan" at Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademin. Venue: Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Bactrian, the principal administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, fell out of use more than a tho

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-lecture-language-ancient-afghanistan - 2025-04-03

Position available at University of Idaho

Published 28 February 2017 The Martin Institute and Program in International Studies at the University of Idaho invites applications for a new, visiting clinical faculty position beginning August 2017. The Martin Institute and Program in International Studies seek candidates whose professional experience and teaching interests focus on the Near East/South Asia (NESA) region and in one of our issue

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-university-idaho - 2025-04-03

Article on Swedish immigration

Published 28 February 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has just published an article in the Conversation on Swedish immigration. According to Donald Trump Sweden is “having problems like they never thought possible” because of mass migration. But there is no evidence to support the American president’s claim. The crime rate is not affected by the immigration rate, and the Swedish state has actua

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-swedish-immigration - 2025-04-03

SASNET Workshop on Online Hate in India and Sweden

Published 28 February 2017 On February 9-10, SASNET successfully arranged a workshop about Online Hate in India and Sweden. The workshop was held at Media Evolution City in Malmö. The participants from India were: Karen Gabriel from Delhi University; Vibodh Parthasarathi from Jamia Millia Islamiya Univeristy, Delhi; Japreet Grewal and Zeenab Aneez from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-workshop-online-hate-india-and-sweden - 2025-04-03

Shanta Wanninayake defended her PhD thesis at Gothenburg University

Published 1 February 2017 On the 27th of January 2017, Shanta Wanninayake defended her PhD thesis at School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University in Sweden. Her thesis is entitled "Making a " Home": Internal Displacement and Resettlement Processes  in Sri Lanka 2003-2006". Opponent was professor Cahtrine Brun from Oxford Brookes University in UK. Go for the thesis. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/shanta-wanninayake-defended-her-phd-thesis-gothenburg-university - 2025-04-03

Watch the Lecture with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Philipson

Published 2 March 2017 On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13.15-14.45 Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas held a lecture entitled: "Is ‘global’ English compatible with local language ecologies and principles of language rights, or a neoimperialist project?" at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL, room H339). The lecture was jointly organised by the Centre for Languages and Literature a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/watch-lecture-tove-skutnabb-kangas-and-robert-philipson - 2025-04-03

The 5th King's India Institute Graduate Conference

Published 2 March 2017 On 31 May 2017 the 5th King's India Institute Graduate Conference will be held at King's College in London. This year's theme is Narratives of Indian Democracy. Deadline for submission of abstract is 15 March 2017. The conference organizers call for papers on the following themes:Democracy as a political vs. ethical project: How is the democratic project realised through rep

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/5th-kings-india-institute-graduate-conference - 2025-04-03

Extremists of Love: Cosmological Activism among Pakistani Sufi Muslims

Published 7 March 2017 Photo from Ida-Sofie Matzen On Thursday 23 March 2017, 16.00 Ida Sofie Matzen held a lecture entitled: "Extremists of Love: Cosmological Activism among Pakistani Sufi Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The lecture was jointly organised by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and SASNET at Lund Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/extremists-love-cosmological-activism-among-pakistani-sufi-muslims - 2025-04-03

SASNET's South Asia Library at Norlind is now open

Published 7 March 2017 SASNET is keeping a library at the Lund University office, with academic South Asia journals and a collection of 200 doctoral dissertations related to South Asia from the Nordic universities. SASNET has reorganised the library collections during some time but is now open for visitors again. Visit the library at Biskopsgatan 5. Visit the online library. If you have any questi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnets-south-asia-library-norlind-now-open - 2025-04-03

Conference on Asian Cinemas in Vilnius, Lithuania

Published 13 March 2017 Photo from Vilnius University, Centre of Oriental Studies The conference "Nation, Gender and History: Asian Cinemas in Perspective" will be held at Vilnius University, Centre of Oriental Studies 7 - 9 September 2017. Abstracts should be submitted no later than 30 April 2017. Asian Arts Centre and The Centre of Oriental Studies of Vilnius University invite scholars, film pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-asian-cinemas-vilnius-lithuania - 2025-04-03

Thesis defence at Stockholm University

Published 13 March 2017 On Tuesday 4 April at 13.00-15.00 doctoral student Khaleda Gani Dutt, from the Institute of International Education in the Department of Education at Stockholm University, will defend her thesis entitled: "The Role of Adult Literacy in Transforming the Lives of Women in Rural India: Overcoming Gender Inequalities". Venue: Lilla Hörsalen, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Frescat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-stockholm-university - 2025-04-03

Nordic South Asia Meeting in Copenhagen

Published 20 March 2017 Photo from Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday 27 June 2017, the first annual meeting entitled "South Asia across the Nordic Region (SANR)" will be hold at University of Copenhagen. The initiative is organized by the Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Asian Dynamics Initiative (ADI). Deadline for paper and panel submission is 31 March. The organizers invite scholars and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nordic-south-asia-meeting-copenhagen - 2025-04-03

SOAS South Asia Institute Graduate Conference

Published 27 March 2017 On 12-13 June 2017 SOAS University of London will hold its South Asia Institute Graduate Conference. This year the theme of the conference is: "Interrogating the 'rural' in South Asia: ruptures and continuities". Abstracts should be submitted by April 15th. A wealth of literature documents the apparently profound transformations that rural contexts have undergone in the las

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/soas-south-asia-institute-graduate-conference - 2025-04-03

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo spreads his research

Published 28 March 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo spreads his research to a wider audience through his short course at the UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute entitled "Immigration Past and Present". Immigration is often framed as a “crisis” or “problem,” while the words “immigrant,” “refugee,” and “asylum seeker” have taken on negative and monolithic meanings. This course critically

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo-spreads-his-research - 2025-04-03