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The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty for the Study of Culture invites applications for one postdoctoral and two doctoral positions for ONLINERPOL, a five year research project (2017-22) on political cultures of new media in India and among the diaspora. Deadline for submission is 31 August 2017. Two PhD positionsThe first PhD position focuses on the research project ‘O

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/one-postdoc-and-two-phd-positions-available-onlinerpol - 2025-11-21

The conference "Modes of authority and aesthetics practices from South Asia to Southeast Asia" will be held 23-25 May 2018 at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. Submit abstract by September 30th 2017. The Conference intends to think comparatively about the relationship between aesthetic phenomena and authority in a region, South and Southeast Asia, where the aes

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-modes-authority-and-aesthetics-practices - 2025-11-21

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) offers two separate fellowships opportunities, and are encouraging applications that engage with a number of Invitational Priorities, including those that explore linkages beyond the InterAsian expanse and that emphasize connections between Asia and Africa. SSRC will be accepting applications until September 27, 2017. The first, the Transregional Research

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-two-ssrc-fellowships - 2025-11-21

Stockholm Culture Festival fills streets and squares with all kinds of cultural events for all ages during five days, 15-20 August 2017. The theme for this years festival is India. It will be the first time that the festival has a theme beyond Europe. The goal this year is to present different aspects of the known and the unknown in a Stockholm city space. Music, street art, circus, dance, fashion

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/theme-years-stockholm-culture-festival-india - 2025-11-21

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Asian Studies with focus on gender. Their preference is for scholars working on East and/or South Asia. The successful hire will work closely with the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, one of the constituent institutes of the Keough School, in furthering the integratio

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/available-position-assistant-professor-asian-and-gender-studies - 2025-11-21

Meredith College seeks qualified candidates for a tenure track assistant professorship in the Department of History, Political Science, and International Studies. Ideal candidate will offer teaching and research strengths in modern Chinese history and one or more of the following fields: South Asia, 20th century world, Middle East, Africa, women’s history, international or comparative politics. Ap

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-asian-history - 2025-11-21

Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor faculty position focused on law and legal institutions of Islam and/or Muslim societies in any time period. Submit application before 15 October. The successful applicant for this position will be jointly appointed in the Stanford Law School and one of the following departments within t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistantassociate-prof-law-and-legal-institutions - 2025-11-21

Martin Chautari (MC) is organizing the Chautari Annual Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal on 22-23 April 2018. The aim of this conference is to promote research culture in the humanities and social sciences in Nepal. Submit abstract before 20 November. MC invites submission of abstracts of research papers or abstracts of the theme-based panels from eligible researchers or institutions who will have co

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-paperspanels-chautari-annual-conference-nepal - 2025-11-21

The 2017 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be held on October 13-14 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The conference theme is “Sri Lanka: Critical Reflections on Legacies of Authority and Difference.” Submit proposals before August 28, 2017. Conceiving of “Authority” and “Difference” in their broadest senses, the organizers hope the conference theme will prompt consideration of, among ot

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sri-lanka-graduate-student-conference - 2025-11-21

The conference 'Examining the Processual in Kinship and Family in South Asia', will be held at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 1-2 February 2018. The deadline for submission is 31 August 2017. Within kinship today, the idea of being related and constructing relatedness has been revived through the insightful essays by Marshall Sahlins on ‘What is kinship?’

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-kinship-and-family-south-asia - 2025-11-21

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies/Digital Humanities. Applications must be received no later than 15 September 2017. The fellow will join the ERC-funded Open Philology project. The postdoctoral fellow will be responsible for developing the underlying back-end architecture on which the project will operate;You will also

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-postdoctoral-fellow-buddhist-studiesdigital-humanities - 2025-11-21

Wesleyan University’s Department of Religion invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Religion, with a focus on Buddhist Studies, beginning July 1, 2018. The Department is seeking scholars who specialize in East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, or Southeast Asia, and who are capable of applying their methods to other religious cultures or traditions. The Department particularl

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-buddhist-studies - 2025-11-21

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) is seeking to fill two faculty positions for its interdisciplinary research programme on Climate Change Mitigation and Development. The programme focuses on building an interdisciplinary understanding of the challenges to and solutions for achieving low-carbon, local environment-friendly and equitable development in India and south A

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/faculty-positions-available-climate-change-mitigation-and-development - 2025-11-21

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo was interviewed by the Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News Global about Ung i Sverige, the protest movement started by unaccompanied minor asylum seekers from Afghanistan.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/admir-skodo-interviewed-taiwanese-newspaper - 2025-11-21

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has been commissioned to write an entry on idealism in the Sage Encyclopaedia of Social Research Methods.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/admir-skodo-has-been-commissioned-write-entry-sage - 2025-11-21

On May 11, 2017, researchers from all over Sweden focusing on East Asia (and Asia in general) gathered in Stockholm. The conference, organized by the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics, aimed to create opportunities to discuss the current research environment, challenges in the field, and prospects for inc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/videos-and-conference-report-isdps-conference - 2025-11-21

The Department of History at Salisbury University is accepting applications for the position of Assistant Professor of History (South Asian History specialization).  This is a full-time tenure-track position. Teaching load is 3-3 to include World Civilizations, upper-division undergraduate, and graduate courses for our M.A. in History program. Salisbury University faculty members are expected to e

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-history - 2025-11-21

The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, has been authorized to fill a tenure-track faculty position in Tamil Studies at the level of Assistant Professor. The expected start date is July 1, 2018. The Department seeks candidates with native or near-native ability in written and spoken Tamil and who can ideally work with both classical and modern Tamil

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-tamil-studies - 2025-11-21

Between 2004 and 2005 Lund University published the Swedish journal Chakra: tidskrift för indiska religioner. The journal published peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on religions on the Indian subcontinent. The founding editors of Chakra were Associate Professor Kristina Myrvold and Dr. Katarina Plank. The four issues of the journal are now republished on our website. This republication mark

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/online-republication-chakra-marks-first-step-toward-creating-nordic-journal-south-asian-studies - 2025-11-21

On Thursday 14 September at 19.00 director Sarah Singh comes to Skissernas Museum (Museum of Sketches for Public Art) in Lund to screen "A Million Rivers".  A Million Rivers - a contemporary black and white surrealist film work exploring Bertolt Brecht’s ‘alienation effect’ and the notion of expanded cinema. Radically re-inventing the geo-political narrative through themes of fragmentation, identi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/million-rivers-movie-screening-and-directors-talk - 2025-11-21