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In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the rise of animal life. Their findings offer new insights as to how dramatic daily shifts in oxygen availability and stress may have played a central role in the evolution of complex organisms on Earth. “Now, when we explore animal
Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an EU grant of 8.3 million euros for a new international doctoral programme in regenerative medicine and advanced therapy medicinal products. The aim is to improve the environment for regenerative medicine and ATMPs in Europe and facilitate cooperation between research and clinical application. It started as an idea at the Lund Stem Cell Center to train a
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/83-million-euros-doctoral-programme-regenerative-medicine-and-atmp - 2025-10-07
After a five-year pause, the Lund Stem Cell Center’s outreach initiative Taking Science to Schools – Borrow a Scientist has returned, once again bringing researchers face-to-face with students across southern Sweden. In March 2025, nine researchers from the Center visited more than 100 students at Malmö Latinskola, Filbornaskolan in Helsingborg, and Söderportgymnasiet in Kristianstad. The sessions
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/science-steps-outside-lab-borrow-scientist-returns-local-classrooms - 2025-10-07
Researchers at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University have developed a stem cell-based therapy that rejuvenates the aging blood and immune systems in mice without harsh treatments like chemotherapy or radiation. The findings recently published in the journal Nature Communications is a step toward safer, non-toxic treatments for age-related blood disorders and immune decline. As we age, the s
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/non-toxic-stem-cell-therapy-prevents-age-related-blood-diseases-mice - 2025-10-07
After 2,5 years being hosted by the Department of Sociology at Paradisgatan 5 in the city centre of Lund, SASNET again shifted locality in early 2016. This time the move was to Villa Norlind, a rather small building located at Biskopsgatan 5, a house that used to accommodate the Dept. of Musicology, but recently was taken over by the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). SASNET rents three roo
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-now-located-villa-norlind - 2025-10-07
Seminar by Anuradha Rose on alcohol consumption in South India to be held in Stockholm. On November 16, 2015 from 14.00-15.30, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm hosts a lecture by Dr. Anuradha Rose, associate professor of community medicine and bioethicist at Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A. The talk is titled Addressing Alcohol problems: Temptations in the tribes and will focus on alcohol c
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-about-alcohol-consumption - 2025-10-07
The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) is continuing its three short-term summer courses for Nordic students. The courses are as follows:Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Introduction CourseUniversity of Hyderabad, Hyderabad2nd to 29th July 2017Capacity: 50 studentsApproaching the Environment in India: Issues and Methods in the Study of the Nature-Economy-Society Interface Institute for Social an
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/summer-courses-india-nordic-students - 2025-10-07
On Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14.15-15.45 Raj Kumar from Benares Hindu University will hold a lecture entitled: "Rethinking women's issues in 19th century Hindi writings of Mallika" at Uppsala University. Abstract:Mallika may be regarded as the first woman writer of Hindi in 19th century north India since nothing much is known about women writing of that time yet.Though she was a Bengali, she cam
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-rethinking-womens-issues-19th-century-hindi-writings-mallika - 2025-10-07
On 30 November 2016 14.15-15.45, Professor Ruby Sain from Centre for the Study of Religion and Society in the Department of Sociology at Jadavpur University, will hold a lecture entitled: "Religious Education in South Asia" at Uppsala University. Abstract: The exploration of religion in India is as old as that country, as it has been depicted in various religious texts, such as the Upanishads, the
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/public-lecture-uppsala-religious-education-south-asia - 2025-10-07
The Cell for FATA studies (CFS) at University of Peshawar organizes its 2nd National Conference on FATA entitled: "Economic Currents and Opportunities for Economic Development in FATA" from the 17th until the 18th of January 2017. CFS successfully implemented the “First National Conference on Socioeconomic & Political Currents in FATA” in 2015. This project provided an opportunity to university st
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fata-conference-university-peshawar - 2025-10-07
The stamps were recently launched at a special ceremony, as part of the upcoming Lund University 350th jubilee celebrations. The selected stamp motifs highlight both the University’s history and the cutting-edge research conducted at the University. You can buy them here in Lund, at the LU shop on Winstrupsgatan 8 or online at postnord.se. You can even order them online from overseas. Read more ab
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-its-own-official-stamps - 2025-10-07
An enormous Freedom of Expression cube will be turned on and a week of activities will kick-off outside of Lund Cathedral on Dec. 2 at 12:30 to commemorate Sweden’s 250-year anniversary of freedom of speech. Lund is commemorating “The Week of Silence”, a week of activities, including the launch of a human rights cube and film, a silent minute, and a concert and panel discussion on freedom of expre
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/week-silence-planned-lund - 2025-10-07
On Wednesday 23 November 2016, Liaqat Javed, Executive Director for the Backwards Rehabilitation and Improvement Commission Pakistan (BRIC), visited SASNET at Lund University. Javed had come to Lund - as part of a Sweden tour - on invitation from the regional outfit of ABF, Sweden’s largest adult non-profit educational organisation and a collaboration partner of SASNET. His mission is to share his
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pakistani-activist-against-bonded-labour-visited-sasnet - 2025-10-07
Call for Contributions to IIAS magazine The Newsletter 2016. The Newsletter is a free, non-peer reviewed Asian Studies magazine published three times a year by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden the Netherlands. With approximately 17,000 worldwide subscribers, the magazine is an outstanding forum for Asia scholars to share commentary, research essays, book reviews and ann
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sign-iias-newsletter - 2025-10-07
Guest lectures to be held by Prof Jan Breman at the University of Copenhagen. On October 20th and 21st 2015 the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen hosts two talks by Professor Jan Breman from the University of Amsterdam. The first lecture takes place on the 20th of October from 12.00-13.30 in room 16.2.55 CSS at the Department of Sociology and is titled Informalizing the Economy: Th
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jan-breman-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2025-10-07
Narashima Boopathi Sivasubramanian from the Department of Management at University of Vaasa, Finland, defends his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Managing across cultures with Cultural Intelligence Quotient (CQ) - Study of Finnish business leaders experience in India”, on Friday 16 December 2016 at 12.00. aNarashima Boopathi Sivasubramanian from the Department of Management at University of Vaasa,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-thesis-finnish-business-leaders-india-experiences - 2025-10-07
Professor Frédéric Landy, director at the French Institute of Pondicherry, held a seminar entitled “National parks within the urban agglomerations of Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town: between urbanization and globalization, which place for ‘eco-ethnicity’? on Thursday 8 December 2016 at the Department of Human Geography and the Human Ecology Division. Frédéric Landy was primarily in L
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/frederic-landy-held-lecture-lund-his-notion-eco-ethnicity - 2025-10-07
Riya Raphael, active member of SASNET's student body SASA, recently joined the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University as a PhD student in December 2016. Current Research: Riya Raphael's PhD project aims to investigate and question normative categories and concepts within the study of political economy and economics. She is inspired by writings of postcolonial feminists, Queer-Marxists and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/riya-raphael-joins-department-gender-studies - 2025-10-07
Maria Tonini and Admir Skodo will join SASNET as researchers from 1 January 2017. As a SASNET researcher, Maria will explore patterns of inclusion and exclusion as they are articulated in digital media in India and Sweden, with special focus on social media platforms and user-generated content. Issues of interest include: online harassment, marginalization, and visibility. She plan to focus specif
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-researchers-will-join-sasnet - 2025-10-07
A call for papers has been announced for The Ireland India Institute's first Postgraduate Conference on South Asia. Deadline for abstracts is 3 February 2017. The conference is hosted in collaboration with the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). Doctoral researchers and early career academics are invited to send proposals for papers addressing the following themes: Nationalism and
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/ireland-india-institute-postgraduate-conference-2017 - 2025-10-07
