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Indian water expert and activist visited SASNET

Published 18 December 2019 Shripad Dharmadhikary came to Lund in early December and held a number of lectures and interactive sessions at various departments of Lund University. SASNET was honoured to welcome Shripad Dharmadhikary from Pune, India. He was a full-time activist for 12 years with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement), founded by Right Livelihood Award winner Medha Pa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-water-expert-and-activist-visited-sasnet - 2025-03-13

NCI Summer courses 2020

Published 18 December 2019 The Nordic Centre in India announced its upcoming summer courses for 2020 in various locations in India. NCI welcomes applications for the following three summer courses taking place in India between May and August 2020:Gender and Society in Contemporary India University of Hyderabad, July 13th to August 8th, 2020This is a postgraduate level course that aims to provide a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-summer-courses-2020 - 2025-03-13

SASNET post-doc publishes article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Published 3 January 2020 Isha Dubey explores the nature of the communal violence that occurred in Bihar in 1946 against the backdrop of the ‘escalating’ communal tensions during the 1930-1940s. Abstract:The year 1937 saw the establishment of Congress Ministries in eight of the eleven provinces in which the provincial elections had been held, Bihar being one of them. The resounding victory of the C

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-journal-royal-asiatic-society - 2025-03-13

SASNET co-organises summer school on gender and risk

Published 9 January 2020 The summer School will take place in May 2020 at the LU Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety and offers training in developing gender-inclusive designs in response, recovery, and preparedness.  From the Lund University Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety website:"After the success of the first summer school, Division of Risk Management and Societal S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-organises-summer-school-gender-and-risk - 2025-03-13

SASNET welcomes new researcher

Published 14 January 2020 Orwa Ajjoub will be with us for the next 3 months, working on a report about the future of IS and al-Qaeda, also in the context of South Asia. Orwa Ajjoub is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In 2018, Orwa graduated from Lund University with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Interested in Islamic theology and political Islam, Orwa wrote his thesis about the theological a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-new-researcher - 2025-03-13

SANR Conference 2020 - Call for papers

Published 20 January 2020 The 4th annual meeting will take place at the University of Copenhagen on 28th and 29th May 2020. We are pleased to invite scholars and policy practitioners to contribute to the 4th annual meeting of the South Asia across the Nordic Region (SANR 2020) in Copenhagen. The SANR annual meeting offers a platform to present ongoing research and enhance scholarly collaboration a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sanr-conference-2020-call-papers - 2025-03-13

Two new affiliated researchers at SASNET

Published 23 January 2020 SASNET is pleased to welcome Dr. Amrita Ghosh from Linnaeus University and Dr. Phu Doma Lama from Lund University as new affiliated researchers. Amrita Ghosh has a Masters in English from Rutgers University, NJ and a PhD in Postcolonial literature and theory, specializing in Partition Literature, from Drew University, New Jersey, USA. She has had a fellowship at Cornell U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-affiliated-researchers-sasnet - 2025-03-13

SASNET sponsors course at Lund University

Published 24 January 2020 The course takes place at the LU Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and deals with religious diversity in contemporary India. The course ”Brahmaner, imamer och heliga mödrar: religiös mångfald i dagens Indien” (Brahmins, Imams and Sacred Mothers: Religious Pluralism in Modern India) offers an introduction to the religious climate of today's India. Hindus, Buddhists

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-sponsors-course-lund-university - 2025-03-13

Papers invited for SASNET 2016 conference on Modernity in South Asia

Published 22 March 2016 SASNET organizes a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future in Everyday Life in South Asia” from 20 – 22 September 2016 at Lund University. The conference will explore what it means to consider oneself modern or outside the limits of modernity, in an extremely diverse region. It will also examine how the notion of modernity is experienced, contested, and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/papers-invited-sasnet-2016-conference-modernity-south-asia - 2025-03-13

SASNET welcomes Johan Nilsson

Published 6 March 2020 Johan Nilsson will join SASNET to prepare a project tracing the reception of South Asian religion in Swedish Theosophy. Nilsson recently completed his PhD in the history of religions at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Nilsson's primary focus of study is esoteric and occult movements active during the 19th and 20th century. He has successfully

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-johan-nilsson - 2025-03-13

Asheque Haque joins SASNET

Published 11 March 2020 During his time at SASNET, the security expert will work on Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Asheque recently joined SASNET as an affiliated researcher. He is a political and security researcher on South Asia. He has worked as a countering violent extremism professional at the international level and has led multiple projects in the field. His research includes

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asheque-haque-joins-sasnet - 2025-03-13

New report by South Asia Initiative on EU-India relations in Africa

Published 17 March 2020 In the brief, UI's Emil Lidén examines the potential for deeper security cooperation in Africa. The brief "Securing a Shared Neighbourhood: The European Union and India as Partners for Security in Africa" was recently published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), which co-hosts the South Asia Initiative along with SASNET.  SummaryThe strategic partnershi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2025-03-13

Latest SASNET Podcast on Corona virus in India

Published 19 March 2020 In view of the ongoing corona pandemic, Andreas Johansson sat down with epidemiologist Dr. Shantanu Sharma to talk about the latest developments. After the first cases were reported in November 2019 in the Wuhan region of China, the coronavirus has spread to 177 countries and infected more than 200,000 people worldwide. While Europe is currently treated as the epicentre, no

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2025-03-13

New podcast episode on Al-Qaeda and Afghan peace talks

Published 25 March 2020 For the latest episode of our podcast, Andreas Johansson sat down with SASNET affiliated researcher Orwa Ajjoub. SASNET director Andreas Johansson interviewed the scholar Orwa Ajjoub, who joined SASNET in January 2020, on the role of Al-Qaeda in the Afghan peace talks.Orwa Ajjoub is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In 2018, Orwa graduated from Lund University with an MA

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-al-qaeda-and-afghan-peace-talks - 2025-03-13

SASNET post-doc presented at conference in Bangladesh

Published 30 March 2020 At the Intl. Conference on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary, Isha Dubey talked about memorial cultures in India and Bangladesh. SASNET post-doctoral researcher Isha Dubey delivered the valedictory address at the International Conference on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary (1920-2020). The Conference – Bangabandhu, His Times and Legacy:

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-presented-conference-bangladesh - 2025-03-13

New SASNET Podcast episode on Corona pandemic and Indian economy

Published 2 April 2020 For the fourth episode of our weekly podcast, Andreas Johansson spoke to LU professor Neelambar Hatti. Andreas Johansson had a talk with Neelambar Hatti, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economic History at Lund University, about possible short and long-term effects of the corona pandemic on the Indian economy.Listen to the episode here or on our Soundcloud channel. O

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-podcast-episode-corona-pandemic-and-indian-economy - 2025-03-13

Latest SASNET podcast episode on COVID-19 and fake news in India

Published 8 April 2020 Hanna Geschewski had the pleasure to speak to SASNET affiliate researcher Dr Parama Sinha Palit on the spread of fake news on social media in times of the coronavirus pandemic. For this episode of our podcast, we invited Dr Parama Sinha Palit, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies within Nanyang Technological University Singapore. S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-episode-covid-19-and-fake-news-india - 2025-03-13

Last week's podcast on COVID-19 in Nepal

Published 22 April 2020 For the latest podcast episode, Hanna spoke to Dr Sameer Mani Dixit, a public health expert, about the current spread of the coronavirus in Nepal. Dr Dixit has a background in biotechnology and immunology. After completing his PhD thesis at Western Sydney University, he returned to Nepal and after some teaching assignments, he and a number of research colleagues founded the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/last-weeks-podcast-covid-19-nepal - 2025-03-13

SASNET supported Intl conference on fermented foods in India

Published 24 April 2020 In December 2019, LU Professor emeritus Dr Baboo M Nair attended the conference at Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat. The 9th International Conference on “Fermented Foods, Health Status and Social Well-being” was organised on 13th and14th December 2019 by the Swedish South Asian Network on Fermented Foods (SASNET-FF) at Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India  in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-supported-intl-conference-fermented-foods-india - 2025-03-13