Published 21 December 2016 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 be

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Published 22 December 2016 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.Sta

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Published 22 December 2016 Wednesday 21 December 2016 was the last working day for Lars Eklund, after 16 years in SASNET service. Lars Eklund has been the deputy director for SASNET and has worked with the network since it was launched in January 2001. He was responsible for the construction and maintenance of the extensive SASNET Internet Gateway on Swedish and Scandinavian South Asian Studies, a

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Published 29 December 2016 SASA, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning for fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country for up to a maximum of 8000,- SEK. Students enrolled at Lund University who plan to do fieldwork in South As

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Published 30 December 2016 The Asian Dynamics Initiative at University of Copenhagen announces its 9th annual international ADI conference to be held 26-28 June 2017. The 2017 annual ADI conference addresses the question of ‘the Asian century’ that is yet to be fully examined. We attend to the ways in which new connected histories, flows and connections both within, and beyond, territoriality are

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Published 30 December 2016 Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi (Inida) is organising an International Conference on Gender, Activism and Politics from 2nd April to 4th April 2017 in Varanasi. While both India and Sweden acknowledge the need for enhancing women participation and empowerment; their immediate concerns and priorities have been diverse. In Sweden there is growing concern about the dec

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo: Berkeley The Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of qualified lecturers to teach the languages of South Asia, including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, should an opening arise. The pool will remain in place for one calendar year; screening of applications i

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo: NIAS Asia in Focus is an English language journal on Asia by Early Career Researchers (including MA) and the geographical focus is Asia spanning from Central Asia to Oceania and excludes Australia and New Zealand. Asia in Focus is now in its second year of publication. The journal welcomes papers written by PhD and Masters who:Are studying or recently finished thei

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo from studyinnorway.no At MF two Ph.D. research fellowships are now available. The starting date for the fellowships is September 1st 2017. PhD research fellowships are temporary research engagements which shall lead to a completed degree of PhD. MF Norwegian School of Theology offers several PhD stipends, which are open-ended, including studies of religion and socie

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo from Wikipedia Call for History Internships at IIM-Ahmedabad, India The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has played a pioneering role in the field of business history in India and wishes to extend this legacy by engaging with a new generation of students and researchers. Interns are expected to assist history related research projects and also develop

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Published 17 January 2017 Photo from East-West Center An NEH Summer Institute "Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformation" will be held on June 12 to July 7, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Summer Institute, hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), is now calling for papers. This multidisciplinary NEH-supported summer institute will offer four weeks of context-rich and critical enga

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Published 19 January 2017 Photo from ITU IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its newly established Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consideration begins immediately and open until filled. The Department aims to not only complement the IT focus of the university but also develop a strong faculty

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Published 24 January 2017 Photo from Wikimedia Commons The South Asian Studies Council (SASC) at the MacMillan Center invites applications for post-doctoral position at Yale University for AY 2017-2018. Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to modern and contemporary South Asia, in the humanities or social sciences. All applicants should have in-depth knowledge of at least

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Published 24 January 2017 Photo from Wikipedia University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for t

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Published 26 January 2017 Photo from Sydasien.se SASNET's new researcher Maria Tonini talks about her research in "Sydasien". Read the article (in Swedish). Read Maria Tonini's dissertation "The Ambiguities of Recognition Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India" as pdf. Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region of South

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Published 27 January 2017 Photo from www.hf.uio.no On Thursday 15 February 2017, 16.15-18.00, Professor Sten Widmalm will hold a seminar entitled: "Political Tolerance in India, Pakistan and Uganda" at University of Oslo. Venue: Blindern, PA Munchs hus seminar room 9 in Oslo. What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? Sten Widmalm presents the main

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Published 20 January 2017 Photo: Paul Rollier On Friday 10 February 2017, 10.15-12.00 Adjunct Professor Paul Rollier will hold a seminar entitled: "Religious Belonging in Pakistan: Ritual, language, and the production of ‘minorities’" at University of Oslo. The seminar is organised by the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies. Venue: Eilert Sundts hus, aud. 6 in Oslo. Sectarian attacks, Islam

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Published 13 January 2017 Photo from www.hf.uio.no On Wednesday 1 February 2017, 16.15-18.00 Professor Caleb Simmons will hold a lecture entitled: “Rascally Infidels:” Political-religious transgression in international correspondences of Ṭipū Sultān" at University of Oslo. Venue: P.A. Munchs hus: Seminar room 6 in Oslo. In his talk, he will discuss “religious transgression” in the political theolo

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Published 15 January 2017 South and Southeast Asian Association for Culture and Religion (SSEASR) is organizing the 7th SSEASR Conference "ASEAN Region by the end of 21st Century: A Dialogue with Past or Present?"at the Vietnam Buddhist University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 9-12 July, 2017. Modern South and Southeast Asia is an idea as much as it is a place in time and space. It is an idea th

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Published 11 January 2017 A workshop entitled "Towards Global Social Theory? Possibilities and Tensions" will be held at Linnaus University in New Delhi, India on 18-20 April 2017. This workshop is addressing current debates regarding the dominance of Northern thought in social theory. The role of modern European Empire and European modernity, as well as the structure of current knowledge systems

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