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More than 50 Nordic researchers and academics from 20 universities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland participated in the Networking Day on South Asian Studies, that SASNET organized in Lund on Monday 25 April 2016. They are all working on South Asia-related issues, and were invited to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research. The meeting addressed the question: How we ca

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-11-23

Dr. Taberez Ahmed Neyazi has co-authored an article entitled “Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India” with Anup Kumar and Holli A. Semetko. The article is published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Neyazi, who is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, and also India’s Coordi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-piece-indian-election-studies - 2025-11-23

Soumi Banjeree, 28, is currently doing a PhD at Lund University’s School of Social Work and occupied the coordinator position at SASNET during the autumn. Alongside organising and making sure panellists make their way to Lund for our seminars, she has drafted research articles and worked on her PhD thesis this past semester. However, Banerjee's position as coordinator in 2022 was not her first ass

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/soumi-banerjee-shrinking-civic-spaces-india-ngos-are-attempting-shift-away-activism - 2025-11-23

Professor Meera Chakravorty from the Dept. of Cultural Studies at Jain University, Bangalore, India, visited Sweden in the first week of April 2016. Meera Chakravorty gave two interesting lectures. The main function was at Sigtunastiftelsen (the Sigtuna Foundation) in the small town of Sigtuna, outside Stockholm. Here, she was invited to to speak on ”Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet of Joy” in connec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/bangalore-professor-toured-lund-university-and-sigtuna - 2025-11-23

Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. In the article, which was published in the journal Peacebuilding in late December 2022, Svensson analyses the Partition Museum in Amritsar as a rare opportunity to, in an agonistic manner, challenge and undo the antagonism that was ena

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-11-23

Together with Department of Political Science we are are organizing a talk with Assistant Professor Nitasha Kaul from the University of Westminister, UK on Thursday, May 19 at 3.15-5.00 pm in the large conference room (room 367) at the Political Science Department. Dr. Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Politi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetpolitical-science-seminar-neoliberal-nationalism-india - 2025-11-23

Are you a student enrolled in the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University? Then you are eligible to apply for our grant to conduct fieldworkd in South Asia. Applicants for this grant must be students within the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. Most importantly, your fieldwork must take

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students - 2025-11-23

Are you planning to write your thesis topic related to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already defended your thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The Award has been awarded since 2022 and is given to an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-our-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20222023 - 2025-11-23

In the coming four years Mine Islar, Senior lecturer at LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies), will lead projects working on sustainable development, political ecology and social justice in the intersection of climate change and biodiversity in the Himalayas.  The funding was granted for two projects by the Swedish government research council for sustainable development FORMAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/mine-islar-receives-funding-studying-climate-change-and-biodiversity-himalayas - 2025-11-23

Soumi Banerjee, Tabita Rosendal and Sunny Gurumayum were all chosen to receive this semester's SASNET Doctoral travel grant. Read more about their individual projects here. SASNET has decided to award travel grants to three doctoral students at Lund University. They will use the grant to fund their fieldwork in India and Sri Lanka during the coming months. Soumi Banerjee: "Performing legitimacy in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/three-doctoral-students-receive-sasnet-travel-grant - 2025-11-23

PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Venue: Auditoriet/Hörsalen, Kulturen, Tegnérplatsen in Lund. The thesis de

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2025-11-23

Read about our activities during 2022 in our newly published Activity Report. During 2022, SASNET conducted a wide range of activities to promote, support and disseminate research on South Asia at Lund University.  From arranging activities in collaboration with academic departments, research groups and student organisations at the University, SASNET also awarded several researchers with grants fo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2022-published - 2025-11-23

Two visiting Indian researchers – Dr V. Sivasubramanian and Professor N Thajuddin, held an appreciated SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with the Division of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Department of Technology and Society at Lund University, was entitled ”Microalgal  Biotechnology and Phycoremediation techno

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-successful-indian-microalgal-biotechnology-research - 2025-11-23

PhD candidate Andreas Johansson at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR), Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Pragmatic Muslim Politics. The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress” on Friday 27 May 2016, at 10.00. Andreas is also connected to the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Växjö/Kalmar, and has therefore had double supervisors,  Prof.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-defends-thesis-muslim-politics-sri-lanka - 2025-11-23

Samtal i Lund är ett forum där forskare och verksamma utanför universitetet ses för att diskutera aktuella samhällsfrågor. Universitetslektor Rebecca Selberg medverkade i det senaste samtalet om människovärde och välfärd. Samtal i Lund är en mötesplats för forskare, särskilt berörda, beslutsfattare, sakkunniga och andra intressenter. Samtalsserien sker i ett slutet rum med särskilt inbjuden publik

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/rebecca-selberg-medverkar-i-samtal-i-lund - 2025-11-23

Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (TGV) har kommit ut med ett nummer på temat "Feministiska perspektiv på fred och krig", redaktörer för numret är Marta Kolankiewicz och Riya Raphael. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap:s nya nummer med temadelen ”Feministiska perspektiv på fred och krig”, med universitetslektor Marta Kolankiewicz och postdoc Riya Raphael som temaredaktörer, har just kommit ut! Den digitala t

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/nytt-nummer-av-tidskrift-genusvetenskap-0 - 2025-11-23

Ämnesföreningen för genusvetenskap (ÄG) initierar en genusstafett i samband med internationella kvinnodagen där genusforskningen på olika universitet uppmärksammas genom panelsamtal och workshops. Se vilka event som arrangeras på olika universitet runt om i landet. Ett trettiotal genusforskare över hela landet berättar om sin forskning, med syfte att uppmärksamma internationella kvinnodagen, 8 mar

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/genusvetenskaplig-forskning-uppmarksammas-i-samband-med-internationella-kvinnodagen - 2025-11-23

Mia Liinason har utsetts till Wallenberg Scholar, ett program finansierat av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse som stödjer excellent grundforskning. Forskningsgruppen består av en grupp forskare på institutionen, däribland docent Ov Cristian Norocel och universitetslektor Marta Kolankiewicz. Under fem år ska Mia Liinason, tillsammans med en forskargrupp vid institutionen, undersöka motståndet m

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/mia-liinason-blir-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-11-23

Forskare Hansalbin Sältenberg och Diana och Mulinari är medredaktörer till ny antologi om antirasism. Flera av institutionens forskare medverkar i ett antal kapitel i boken. I antologin "Antirasismer och antirasistier: Realistiska utopier, spänningar och vardagserfarenheter" utforskar 24 forskare hur motståndet mot olika former av rasism bedrivs och förkroppsligas bland grupper av människor som dr

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/ny-antologi-om-antirasism - 2025-11-23

Prefekt Björn Badersten svarar på frågor kring den pågående diskussionen om omorganisering av Genusvetenskapliga institutionen och hur detta påverkar dig som student. Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten har inlett ett organisationsutvecklingsprojekt mot färre enheter. Projektet innebär att mindre institutioner kan komma att slås ihop för att skapa större organisatoriska enheter.En process har nu påbö

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/organisationsforandring-av-genusvetenskapliga-institutionen-fragor-och-svar - 2025-11-23