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Through a collaboration between Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Julian Nowag will arrange an academic conference at the Royal Academy during 2025-2026.The collaboration is aimed to provide distinguished, younger researchers to arrange an academic conference with internationally renowned speakers. With this initiative Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse wants to suppor

https://www.law.lu.se/article/julian-nowag-arrange-conference-royal-swedish-academy-science - 2025-10-11

On 30 May, the Faculty held its annual Research Day, where this year's honorary doctor and the new doctorates gave inspiring lectures. Pictured, from left, are Faculty Marshals Richard Croneberg and Anna Zemskova, new doctors Alexander Hardenberger, Lovisa Häckner Posse and Alezini Loxa, and Honorary Doctor David Lagnado.  The ceremony took place on 31 May.  

https://www.law.lu.se/article/facultys-research-day - 2025-10-11

Documentation must be sent to the faculty no later than 15 September 2024. The application must be submitted to the Foundation no later than 8 October 2024. Objectives of the callThe main objectives for the call are:to provide prominent early-career researchers in law with substantial funding that will allow them to advance in their academic career,to support new research findings of high academic

https://www.law.lu.se/article/ragnar-soderberg-foundation-announces-funding-postdoctoral-projects - 2025-10-11

The Academic Appointments Board decided on 5 September 2024 to appoint Yana Litins’ka as Associate Professor in Public Law. Yana Litins’ka holds a doctoral degree in medical law (Uppsala University, 2018). Her doctoral thesis concerns the capacity assessments to decide on medical treatment within national and international human rights law. From 2020 to 2022, she worked at Lund University as a pos

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professor-public-law - 2025-10-11

The pandemic highlighted a number of serious problems in the working conditions of those working in care. A major new EU-funded research project will investigate the working conditions of care workers. The CARE4CARE project will investigate the working conditions of care workers, which includes a sample of care workers such as nurses and nursing assistants, and how these workers themselves view th

https://www.law.lu.se/article/working-conditions-care-workers-be-studied-eu - 2025-10-11

Annegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki appointed Associate Professors. The Appointments Committee has 9 March decided to appoint Annnegret Engel and Anna Tzanaki as Associate Professors in EU Law. Learn more about Annegret Engel and her research in the Lund University Research portal. Learn more about Anna Tzanaki and her research in the Lund University Research portal.

https://www.law.lu.se/article/new-associate-professors-eu-law - 2025-10-11

The European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) has awarded Alezini Loxa the 2024 Thesis Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled “Sustainability and EU Migration Law: What Place for Migrant’s Rights?”.Since September 1994, the European Group of Public Law (EGPL), the European Scientific Council of the European Public Law Organi

https://www.law.lu.se/article/alezini-loxa-receives-prize-thesis - 2025-10-11

Martin Sunnqvist is coordinator for a new Pufendorf Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Pufendorf Institute with the title Oaths and Courts – from Forum to the Future. This Advanced Study Group centres around the two keywords “Oaths” and “Courts”, and particularly the interaction between them. The independence and impartiality of judges, and the ambition to find the truth through judicial proceeding

https://www.law.lu.se/article/martin-sunnqvist-coordinator-new-pufendorf-advanced-study-group-asg-0 - 2025-10-11

Jur. kand. Sara Pedersen is honoured for her essay is about involuntariness assessment in rape offences when the victim has a mental disability. Motivation: In her essay, the first prize winner has wanted to investigate what the legislative requirements regarding voluntariness in sexual offence legislation mean and how they are handled in legal practice, as well as highlight and problematise how t

https://www.law.lu.se/article/student-lund-wins-first-prize-her-essay-swedish-crime-victims-authority - 2025-10-11

Ana Nordberg and Aurelija Lukoseviciene, in cooperation with the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University, in partnership with Future by Lund, have been awarded 1 million SEK from VINNOVA for the project Personalised Immersive Digital Concert Experiences: Legal Tools for the Innovation Portfolio (KonsertX). KonsertX is aimed at developing specific legal tools for the emerging portfol

https://www.law.lu.se/article/project-funded-vinnova - 2025-10-11

SASNET affiliated researcher Therese Boje Mortensen recently published two articles in Sydasien magazine on the outsourcing of Indian government schemes to local NGOs and PM Modi's supporters in the ongoing elections. Government schemes in India reach far – but government jobs do notThe Indian state outsources a range of permanent social programmes to local NGOs. The argument is that NGOs reach ‘t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/therese-boje-mortensen-published-two-articles-indian-politics - 2025-10-11

Oxford graduate Thakkar arrived in Lund for a month-long fellowship with SASNET. Chirayu Thakkar graduated recently from the Modern South Asian Studies program from the University of Oxford. He is currently a graduate student in political science at the Central European University, Hungary. His primary interests are India’s domestic politics and its interaction with the foreign policy. He is curre

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-research-fellow-chirayu-thakkar - 2025-10-11

SASNET affiliated researchers Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson recently participated in two seminars in Belgium on media challenges in the Indian and European elections. Vibodh Parthasarathi and Andreas Mattsson, program director at LU School of Journalism, participated in a panel talk at the Press Club in central Brussels on May 13. The discussion was led by Jean-Luc Racine, Emeritus CNR

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researchers-presented-collaborative-project-belgium - 2025-10-11

Rishi Jha recently presented his paper on narratives of displacement and evictions of the urban poor in Mumbai at the Frontiers of Accumulation at the University of Copenhagen. On May 13, 2019, Rishi Jha, doctoral student and Lund University's School of Social Work and SASNET affiliated researcher, presented his latest paper that explores trends of evictions, displacement and redevelopment in urba

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-presented-conference-university-copenhagen - 2025-10-11

Chirayu Thakkar, currently visiting SASNET as a research fellow, published an on Modi's foreign policy in The Diplomat. In his article, that was published in The Diplomat's online format on 22 May 2019, Thakkar discusses the international but also the domestic rationale of PM Narendra Modi's "Look West" policy, aiming at strengthening ties with the Middle East.Click here to read the full article.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-sasnet-research-fellow-published-diplomat - 2025-10-11

Admir Skodo has recently published a report on Afghanistan and the ongoing peace talks between the Talibans and USA in Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor. Afghanistan and the Taliban: Peace at what price?Peace talks have been going on last year between the United States and the Taliban for a solution to the long, bloody conflict in Afghanistan. If the parties succeed in reaching agreement, this may mean

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-has-published-report-afghanistan - 2025-10-11

SASNET director Andreas Johansson moderated a session on European Perspectives on the Indo-Pacific. On Monday 3 June SASNET co-hosted the joint symposium Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Moving from Periphery to the Center? in Singapore. The symposium was an collaboration between, National University of Singapore – Institute of South Asian Studies, EU Centre in Singapore, Embassy of Sweden Singapore, S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-symposium-indo-pacific-singapore - 2025-10-11

The South Asia across the Nordic Region Conference (SANR) 2019 took place on June 11 and 12 in Uppsala and had participants from various Swedish and foreign academic institutions. The 2019 SANR conference was hosted by Sasnet/Lund University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). SANR is an annual networking conferenc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-hosted-successful-nordic-south-asian-conference - 2025-10-11

Isha arrived in early June and will work for SASNET as a post-doctoral researcher for the next two years. Isha Dubey graduated with a PhD in History from the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in October 2017 for her doctoral dissertation, The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh and the Idea of ‘Home’: Migration, Displacement and Shifting Narratives of Belonging Since the 1940s.  Post her

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-post-doc-isha-dubey - 2025-10-11

SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) jointly organised a panel on current Indian domestic and foreign policy at this year's Almedalen. The talk is now availabke as a podcast. At the recent Almedalen week, SASNET and UI hosted a seminar on current Indian policies and their relevance for Sweden and Europe as part of the institutes' joint South Asia Initiative.On July 4, 201

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-seminar-almedalen-2019 - 2025-10-11