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The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a wide range of activities carried out to bolster knowledge and research on South As

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2025-10-29

In the third episode of SAI's "Climate Lens" podcast, Julia Wiraeus talks to three experts on South Asia's water crisis and the way forward. South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, will see their homes disappear with rising water levels in the coming decades. Wha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2025-10-29

Researcher Orwa Ajjoub explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, researcher Orwa Ajjoub interroga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2025-10-29

The report was written by former SASNET intern Maliha Shir Mohammad and is a summary of her MA thesis. In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated Afghan women and investigates their perspectives on education as an empowerment t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2025-10-29

SASNET and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF) jointly organized a seminar on “Tibet as an (Inter)National Problem” – focusing on China’s and India’s respective roles in Tibet, on Wednesday 20 April 2016, at 19.00. The speaker was Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor in International Relations and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2025-10-29

Dr. Amrita Ghosh, currently visiting researcher at SASNET, released her report "Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves" as part of a preliminary pilot project focusing on questions of identity and space across the complex Bengal borderlands. The full report is now available on our website. Abstract: This is a preliminary pilot project that encompasses

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2025-10-29

On 10 Feburary 2021, SASNET together with the Lund University Center for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) hosted a virtual workshop on "Nordic Collaboration in Research and Education on Indian Religions". After a welcome by the organisers Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at CTR, and Dr. Andreas Johansson, SASNET Director, scholars from institutions in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Swede

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-ctr-organised-nordic-workshop-indian-religions - 2025-10-29

For the second year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one-month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. SASNET have granted two proposals this year. The two proposals granted was gender studies researcher Maria Tonini’s project “A new lesbian visibility? Queer women and social media in contemporary Indi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-grant-applications-one-month-position-prepare-research-application - 2025-10-29

Patel is currently in Sweden as a Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professor, co-hosted by SASNET. On Wednesday, 7 April 2021, from 10:15 to 12:00, Prof. Sujata Patel will hold a virtual inaugural lecture, marking the start of her 2021 Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship. The inaugural lecture, entitled ’Colonialism and Its Knowledges’, addresses the ways in which the postcolonial, the decolonial

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/inaugural-lecture-sujata-patel-umea-university - 2025-10-29

On 17 May at 18:00, SASNET invites you to join the virtual book launch of Anna Lindberg's first novel, Ameena's Journey (or the book that wrote itself). In her book, Lindberg tells the story of Ameena, a young girl from eastern Afghanistan who is forced to flee with her family from the Taliban and embarks on a tumultuous journey that eventually leads her to Sweden. For more information about the b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-ameenas-resa-anna-lindberg - 2025-10-29

See pictures from the Networking Day taken by Andreas Johansson, research coordinator at SASNET. The Networking Day was organised in collaboration with researchers at University of Copenhagen, and opened with an introductory addressed by David Ludden (photo), Professor of History at New York University and former President of the Association for Asian Studies. The planning committee for this event

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pictures-networking-day - 2025-10-29

The project "A Nation and its Fault Lines" was launched in June 2021 and is led by SASNET researchers Dr. Amrita Ghosh and Dr. Isha Dubey. The project focuses on the historical ruptures within the Indian nation since the Partition of 1947, 1971 and the present, which includes the long Kashmir conflict as a painful legacy of colonial border demarcations and the construction of the two nation-states

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-research-project-partition-and-its-aftereffects - 2025-10-29

The issue, which is the result of a workshop at Lund University in 2020, is now available online. The latest issue of the Asian Ethnology journal, published in July 2021, features essays and reviews exploring various aspects of nationalism in the South Asian region. Links to the articles of Asian Ethnology 80 (1) can be found here. The articles are the joint outcome of a two-day workshop at Lund U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/special-issue-asian-ethnology-south-asian-nationalisms - 2025-10-29

On August 12, 2021, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’ (UI) South Asia Initiative and Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University released Indienpodden (the India Podcast) which brings experts from South Asia and Sweden together to discuss different aspects of democracy in India and the South Asian region. The podcast is targeted to a Swedish audience and mainly pr

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-zooms-democracy-india - 2025-10-29

Ted Svensson is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. He has worked at Lund University since 2009 and he obtained his PhD at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His research has consistently revolved around issues pertaining to South Asia, often with a focus on imperialism, state formation and nationalism. At the moment, he is finalising a monograph on

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-ted-svensson - 2025-10-29

The USI Global Studies Program and the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern Indiana has invited SASNET researcher Amrita Ghosh to give a talk on the specter of colonial violence. Abstract of the lecture  The Specter of Colonial Violence: The Strangler Vine and ‘Thugs’ in America Taking a look at Miranda Carter's novel The Strangler Vine (2015) set in 19C India a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-amrita-ghosh-invited-give-talk-global-salon-speaker-series - 2025-10-29

The SASNET director, Andreas Johansson, published an article on Islam in South Asia in the book Islam -En religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei. Read more about the book here (In Swedish).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-published-article-islam-south-asia - 2025-10-29

In 2000, the Swedish development agency (SIDA) selected Lund University to host a new network that was focused on South Asia. The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) has – largely thanks to the ambitious work carried out by the former directors Staffan Lindberg and Anna Lindberg as well as the former deputy director Lars Eklund – established itself as an important and well-known node for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/organisational-changes-and-new-director - 2025-10-29

SASNET will host a one-day workshop – A Nation and its Fault Lines – on February 25, 2022. Jointly conceptualised and organised by SASNET-affiliated researchers Amrita Ghosh and Isha Dubey, the workshop constitutes the culminating event of their work at SASNET on the interconnected themes of postcolonial conflict zones, protracted displacement, historical trauma and memory politics in modern and c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-nation-and-its-fault-lines-organised-isha-dubey-and-amrita-ghosh-0 - 2025-10-29

During 2021 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through webinars, publications, podcasts, networking, and workshops. During the year SASNET hosted several online events, mo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2021-published - 2025-10-29