Published 15 November 2023 New paper on critical pedagogies published in International Studies Perspectives (@ISP_Journal) by two teachers and a current student at Lund University’s Department of Political Science.   Christie Nicoson, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, and Alva Mårtensson examine an ongoing elective course at the Department, Peace in the 21st Century: Critical Debates on Violence, Justic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-study-peace-and-what - 2025-03-14

Published 20 November 2023 Professor Hanna Bäck and Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt, Lund University. At the annual meeting in Gothenburg on 5 October, Hanna Bäck was elected as the new chair and Roxanna Sjöstedt as the new secretary of the Swedish Political Science Association. Congratulations on these honorary assignments! With this, the federation's website has also got an updated layout a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-sjostedt-new-chairman-and-secretary-swedish-political-science-association - 2025-03-14

Published 20 November 2023 'Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada' by Annika Bergman Rosamond, Georgia De Leeuw and Jessica Cheung in INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. Annika Rosamond Bergman Georgia de Leeuw ABSTRACTThe self-identification of Sweden and Canada as exceptionally caring and ethica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-de-leeuw-and-cheung-paternalistic-feminist-foreign-policies - 2025-03-14

Published 21 November 2023 Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga, Lund University. Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However,

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Published 24 November 2023 Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/project-achieving-sustainability-through-risk-taking-receives-4-year-grant-formas - 2025-03-14

Published 27 November 2023 Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt and Professor Hanna Bäck, Lund University. Roxanna Sjöstedt, Hanna Bäck, and Louise Olsson at PRIO in Oslo have received a four-year research grant from the Swedish Research Council, the call Project Grant for Research on Societal Preparedness and Security. Congratulations! Project: All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal secu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-back-olsson-receive-swedish-research-council-grant-analysis-societal-security-and - 2025-03-14

Published 27 November 2023 Annika Fredén has co-authored a new field experiment article in the US-based journal Election Law Journal in collaboration with Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, Stockholm University. We conducted the study in close collaboration with the Swedish election authorities and show that the infrastructure for voting and whether voters can select the b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/originally-designed-field-experiment-voting-behavior-published-election-law-journal - 2025-03-14

Published 28 November 2023 Professor Annika Björkdahl, together with Associate Professor Johanna Mannergren Selimovic at Södertörn University, have received research funding from the Swedish Research Council for three years of research with the project 'Beyond the Archive: Gendering Holocaust knowledge production through women's testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive'. Congratulations on the resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-selimovic-receive-grant-project-womens-experiences-holocaust - 2025-03-14

Published 12 December 2023 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-03-14

Published 19 December 2023 Associate Professor Sara Kalm, Lund University. The distinctive features of modern citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth century”, the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Similar to that of today, the historical sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-and-mobility-poor - 2025-03-14

Published 20 June 2017 The Himalayan Studies Conference V will be held 1-4 September 2017 at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. The conference is organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Intiative at CU Boulder. Participation is restricted to members of the ANHS. Keynote speakers for HSC V will be the author Manjushree Thapa, whose

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/himalayan-studies-conference-colorado - 2025-03-14

Published 20 June 2017 Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute invites applications for a part-time, nine-month, teaching position in Sanskrit starting on August 15, 2017 at its campus in Boudhanath, Nepal. The instructor will teach two undergraduate courses in Sanskrit each semester: Sanskrit I and III in Fall, and Sanskrit II and IV in Spring. Total teaching

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-sanskrit-instructor-kathmandu-university - 2025-03-14

Published 20 June 2017 The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies at University of Leiden is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Buddhist Studies. Applications must be received no later than 30 June 2017. The researcher will carry out research on Buddhist scriptures, which is part of the ERC-funded project, “The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures: Open Philology” headed by p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-postdoctoral-researcher-buddhist-studies - 2025-03-14

Published 20 June 2017 The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies at University of Leiden is looking for a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies. Applications must be received no later than 30 June 2017 The candidate will carry out research on Buddhist scriptures, which is part of the ERC-funded project, “The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures: Open Philology” headed by prof. Jonatha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-phd-candidate-buddhist-studies - 2025-03-14

Published 21 June 2017 In order to consolidate its presence in Afghanistan and to maintain, expand and ensure better impact of its current output, AAN is seeking to recruit one Researcher. The deadline for applications for this recruitment is 15 July 2017. The position is expected to be Kabul-based and full time. The Researcher will report to AAN’s Co-Directors or a person designated by them, and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-researcher-afghanistan-analysts-network-aan - 2025-03-14

Published 21 June 2017 In order to consolidate its presence in Afghanistan and to maintain, expand and ensure better impact of its current output, AAN is seeking to recruit one or two new research staff members. Depending on skills, training and experience they will be hired for the position of Junior or Senior Analyst. The deadline for applications for this recruitment is 15 July 2017. The positi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-juniorsenior-analyst-afghanistan-analysts-network - 2025-03-14

Published 22 June 2017 Dalia Abdelhady talking about research methodology On Thursday 15 June, 2017 a workshop entitled: "Studying Refugees in Northern Europe" was held at The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. SASNET researcher Admir Skodo participated and presented a paper. The workshop was organized by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren and Martin Joormann. The participants formed an i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-lund-refugees-northern-europe - 2025-03-14

Published 30 June 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has received a stipend from Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, that will allow him to study archival material in the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Admir hopes that this rich collection will help him discover new knowledge about Afghans in the United States since the Cold War.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo-has-received-stipend - 2025-03-14

Published 3 August 2017 Göteborg Book Fair 2013 as seen from the second floor. In this year's Göteborg Book Fair there will be two seminars with a South Asian theme. One is a dialogue on contemporary literature in Bangladesh and the other is a talk with Arundhati Roy on her new book, which deals with modern Indian history. SASNET director Andreas Johansson will also be at the fair talking about th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-goteborg-book-fair-2017 - 2025-03-14

Published 8 August 2017 In May the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, visited Emory University for discussions for future collaborations between the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) and SASNET/CMES. The reason for visiting MESAS was because of its similar experience in merging South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies into one department. Recently SASNET became a part

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-visited-emory - 2025-03-14