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World's Best Morning - Digital do's and dont's

On Friday 10 February 2017, 8.00-9.30 SASNET together with Media Evolution invites you to a morning with conversation about how professional roles and workplace is reshaping and how we can find ways to work toward a kinder Internet. Venue: Media Evolution City, Stora Varvsgatan 6A, 211 19 Malmö. What can one of the world's most connected countries - Sweden - learn from one of the world's largest c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/worlds-best-morning-digital-dos-and-donts - 2025-10-19

SASNET/CMES lecture on Counter-Extremism in Pakistan

On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarised world where-in stereotypes, broad generalizations and biases enable a continuou

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetcmes-lecture-counter-extremism-pakistan - 2025-10-19

PhD Scholars from TISS visited SASNET

Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda, PhD Scholars from School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, visited SASNET's office. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda are Erasmus + Visiting Doctoral Fellows at School of Social Work, Lund University from Jan, 2017 till May, 2017.Rishi Jha's doctoral thesis is on undomiciled migrants in urban spaces and it aims to explore negotiated citi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-scholars-tiss-visited-sasnet - 2025-10-19

South Asia State of Minorities Report

The South Asia Collective produces the annual South Asia State of Minorities Report, on the condition of minorities in each country in the region and the quality of state provisioning for them. The South Asia Collective released their inaugural 2016 report regionally in Kathmandu in November last year and are releasing it globally at UN Human Rights Council's upcoming meet in Geneva in March '17.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-state-minorities-report - 2025-10-19

Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska

On the 16th of December 2016, Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Murad Altamash is from Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine Karachi in Pakistan and his thesis is entitled: "Periodontal conditions and treatment outcomes for subjects with diabetes mellitus : special emphasis on HbA1c levels and T-cells". Go for the thesis. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/murad-altamash-defended-his-phd-thesis-karolinska - 2025-10-19

The Lund University Global Scholarship

The scholarship application period has now started for The Lund University Global Scholarship and the deadline to apply is 15 February. Are you a non-EU/EEA student who applied to autumn 2017 Bachelor’s or Master’s studies? Check if you are eligible to apply for the Lund University Global Scholarship. The scholarship is merit-based and selective and can cover a part of or the entire tuition fee fo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-global-scholarship - 2025-10-19

NIFID - a start-up initiative in Malmö

The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment and transfer of knowledge/

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2025-10-19

Book on Muslim Minorities in Europe and India

The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics (Poland). AbstractSince the late 20th century, the issue of accommod

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-muslim-minorities-europe-and-india - 2025-10-19

Travel grants for Lund University students to CREST in Kerala

SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-10-19

Call for one month position to prepare research application at Lund University

For the third year, SASNET invites 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. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-10-19

SASNET met the YCF 2016 group in Malmö

On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keeping a pluralistic society b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-met-ycf-2016-group-malmo - 2025-10-19

Oslo Annual Lecture

On 14 March 2017, 16.15-18.00 The Network for Asian Studies' (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo will hold its Annual Lecture 2017: "Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1969". Venue: Morgenstiernes hus, Arne Næss auditorium, Blindern, Oslo. This year, Andrew G. Walder from Stanford University offers new insights into the Cultural Revolution in China. In the first four years after the onset

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-annual-lecture - 2025-10-19

Sheffield Conference on Subaltern Women's Narratives

On 23 June 2017 the Conference "Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Subversion, Resilience, and Shifting Responses" will be held at the University of Sheffield, Uk. Abstract deadline is 23 April. This conference aims to look at the material histories and lives of subaltern women. In her 1988 essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak extends the definition of the ‘subaltern’, going beyond “strict

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sheffield-conference-subaltern-womens-narratives - 2025-10-19

New book on Post-war Sri Lanka

The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-10-19

Call for papers for the fall issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary constructions of masculinity in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-10-19

Conference on Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia

Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three conferences seeks to promote research and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-10-19

South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) meeting in Edinburgh

On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the past few years in South Asia. In India, critics argue that the rise of the BJP,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-10-19

Women in Asia Conference in Western Australia

The 2017 Women in Asia (WIA) conference will be held at the University of Western Australia on 26-28 September. Deadline for submissions is 31 March 2017. The Women in Asia (WIA) Conference continues a tradition started by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Women’s Caucus (now Women’s Forum) in 1981.This will be the first time this Conference has been held on the west coast, and it

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/women-asia-conference-western-australia - 2025-10-19

Post-Doctoral position available at University of Oslo

A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, within the research project “Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives: Ritual Intersections and the Proscription of Religious Offense”. Application deadline is 13 March 2017. The Fellowship is funded by The Research Council of Norway, and the post-doctoral research fello

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-position-available-university-oslo - 2025-10-19