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The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is continuing its three short-term summer courses for Nordic students. The courses are as follows:Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Introduction CourseUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad2nd to 29th July 2017Capacity: 50 studentsApproaching the Environment in India: Issues and Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface Institute for Social an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/summer-courses-india-nordic-students - 2025-11-23

On Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14.15-15.45 Raj Kumar from Benares Hindu University will hold a lecture entitled: "Rethinking women's issues in 19th century Hindi writings of Mallika" at Uppsala University. Abstract:Mallika may be regarded as the first woman writer of Hindi in 19th century north India since nothing much is known about women writing of that time yet.Though she was a Bengali, she cam

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-rethinking-womens-issues-19th-century-hindi-writings-mallika - 2025-11-23

On 30 November 2016 14.15-15.45, Professor Ruby Sain from Centre for the Study of Religion and Society in the Department of Sociology at Jadavpur University, will hold a lecture entitled: "Religious Education in South Asia" at Uppsala University. Abstract: The exploration of religion in India is as old as that country, as it has been depicted in various religious texts, such as the Upanishads, the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-religious-education-south-asia - 2025-11-23

The Cell for FATA studies (CFS) at University of Peshawar organizes its 2nd National Conference on FATA entitled: "Economic Currents and Opportunities for Economic Development in FATA" from the 17th until the 18th of January 2017. CFS successfully implemented the “First National Conference on Socioeconomic & Political Currents in FATA” in 2015. This project provided an opportunity to university st

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fata-conference-university-peshawar - 2025-11-23

The stamps were recently launched at a special ceremony, as part of the upcoming Lund University 350th jubilee celebrations. The selected stamp motifs highlight both the University’s history and the cutting-edge research conducted at the University. You can buy them here in Lund, at the LU shop on Winstrupsgatan 8 or online at postnord.se. You can even order them online from overseas. Read more ab

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-its-own-official-stamps - 2025-11-23

An enormous Freedom of Expression cube will be turned on and a week of activities will kick-off outside of Lund Cathedral on Dec. 2 at 12:30 to commemorate Sweden’s 250-year anniversary of freedom of speech. Lund is commemorating “The Week of Silence”, a week of activities, including the launch of a human rights cube and film, a silent minute, and a concert and panel discussion on freedom of expre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/week-silence-planned-lund - 2025-11-23

On Wednesday 23 November 2016, Liaqat Javed, Executive Director for the Backwards Rehabilitation and Improvement Commission Pakistan (BRIC), visited SASNET at Lund University. Javed had come to Lund - as part of a Sweden tour - on invitation from the regional outfit of ABF, Sweden’s largest adult non-profit educational organisation and a collaboration partner of SASNET. His mission is to share his

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pakistani-activist-against-bonded-labour-visited-sasnet - 2025-11-23

Call for Contributions to IIAS magazine The Newsletter 2016. The Newsletter is a free, non-peer reviewed Asian Studies magazine published three times a year by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden the Netherlands. With approximately 17,000 worldwide subscribers, the magazine is an outstanding forum for Asia scholars to share commentary, research essays, book reviews and ann

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sign-iias-newsletter - 2025-11-23

Guest lectures to be held by Prof Jan Breman at the University of Copenhagen. On October 20th and 21st 2015 the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen hosts two talks by Professor Jan Breman from the University of Amsterdam. The first lecture takes place on the 20th of October from 12.00-13.30 in room 16.2.55 CSS at the Department of Sociology and is titled Informalizing the Economy: Th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jan-breman-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2025-11-23

Narashima Boopathi Sivasubramanian from the Department of Management at University of Vaasa, Finland, defends his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Managing across cultures with Cultural Intelligence Quotient (CQ) - Study of Finnish business leaders experience in India”, on Friday 16 December 2016 at 12.00. aNarashima Boopathi Sivasubramanian from the Department of Management at University of Vaasa,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-finnish-business-leaders-india-experiences - 2025-11-23

Professor Frédéric Landy, director at the French Institute of Pondicherry, held a seminar entitled “National parks within the urban agglomerations of Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: between urbanization and globalization, which place for ‘eco-ethnicity’? on Thursday 8 December 2016 at the Department of Human Geography and the Human Ecology Division. Frédéric Landy was primarily in L

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/frederic-landy-held-lecture-lund-his-notion-eco-ethnicity - 2025-11-23

Riya Raphael, active member of SASNET's student body SASA, recently joined the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University as a PhD student in December 2016. Current Research: Riya Raphael's PhD project aims to investigate and question normative categories and concepts within the study of political economy and economics. She is inspired by writings of postcolonial feminists, Queer-Marxists and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/riya-raphael-joins-department-gender-studies - 2025-11-23

Maria Tonini and Admir Skodo will join SASNET as researchers from 1 January 2017. As a SASNET researcher, Maria will explore patterns of inclusion and exclusion as they are articulated in digital media in India and Sweden, with special focus on social media platforms and user-generated content. Issues of interest include: online harassment, marginalization, and visibility. She plan to focus specif

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-researchers-will-join-sasnet - 2025-11-23

A call for papers has been announced for The Ireland India Institute's first Postgraduate Conference on South Asia. Deadline for abstracts is 3 February 2017. The conference is hosted in collaboration with the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). Doctoral researchers and early career academics are invited to send proposals for papers addressing the following themes: Nationalism and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/ireland-india-institute-postgraduate-conference-2017 - 2025-11-23

Funded by Knut and Alice Wallenbers foundation, the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson traveled to University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the possibility for future research collaborations. Andreas had several meetings at UCSB. First he had meetings with people connected with the Global Studies department at UCSB. He talked with Professor Mark Jurgensmeyer about a visiting pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-visited-ucsb - 2025-11-23

A two years Postdoc fellowship in colonial history is available at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Sweden. The last day of application is 1 February 2017. Context of position: The project ‘Huseby in the world’ (‘Huseby i världen’) engages with the unique collection of historical documents, the Joseph Stephens Archive, that encompass the material of a subcontractor in th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/postdoc-fellowship-colonial-history - 2025-11-23

The South Asian Studies Association's (SASA) Conference 2017, will be held on 24-26 March, 2017 at Claremont McKenna College, California. Deadline for paper submission is January 24, 2017. South Asian Studies:  Never More RelevantHome to one quarter of the earth’s population and the world’s fastest growing major economy. 5,000 years of rich, extraordinary history, and yet a spawning ground of glob

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/2017-sasa-conference-claremont - 2025-11-23

Jacco Visser, Assistant Communications Officer at SASNET, attended the Bangladesh Studies Network Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on 26-27 May 2016. Read his report from the meeting: On 26 and 27 May 2016 the Bangladesh Studies Network organized its second annual meeting at the faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at the New University of Lisbon. The meeting, a follow up on the first Bangl

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jacco-visser-attended-bangladesh-studies-network-meeting-lisbon - 2025-11-23

Srilata Sircar from the Department of Human Geography, Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Between the Highway and the Red Dirt Track: Subaltern Urbanization and Census Towns in India” on Friday 9 December 2016. The faculty opponent was Tariq Jazeel, Reader at the Dept. of Geography, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. Sircar has been supervised at the depart

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-subaltern-urbanization-and-census-towns-west-bengal - 2025-11-23

The Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) program at Stanford University invites applications for a 12-month Postdoctoral position during the 2017-2018 academic year. This position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar program, with further support provided by Stanford University. The successful applicant is expected to begin on or by October 1, 2017.Stanford University is a globa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/postdoc-position-stanford-university - 2025-11-23