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”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who have spent two months in Lund from mid-November 2015 as exchange students throug

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2025-12-05

During Almedalsveckan, a weeklong event on the island of Gotland where Sweden’s top political parties and organizations give talks and seminars, SASNET held two seminars on India together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Six Year Plan. You can listen to both seminars here. Panel 1: India: an emerging power – implications for Asia and beyond Speakers Constantino Xavier,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/listen-seminar-almedalen - 2025-12-05

SASNET’s South Asia Library received a generous donation in the form of a Gandhi Collection from the relatives of the late Professor Lars Lindström. Lars Lindström (1943–2018) was since 1999 a professor in pedagogy. In 2008 he became a professor at Stockholm University at the Department of Educational Science where he worked on technical, aesthetic and practical traditions of knowledge. Lars’ inte

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/second-gandhi-collection-donated-sasnet - 2025-12-05

This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy (2011), with a dissertation on American-Iranian and Anglo-Iranian rel

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2025-12-05

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo gave an interview on the security situation in Afghanistan in an article published by the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. Skodo calls the situation in Afghanistan "an asymmetrical war which switches between high and low intensity." He also points out that Afghanistan and its neighbors to the east and west face a water supply crisis which might have dire consequences

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-gave-interview-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-12-05

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in Sydasien on the Swedish election. The article explores how Swedish political parties view South Asia. Read the article here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-sydasien - 2025-12-05

The STANCE brownbag lunch seminar is held Wednesday September 12 from 12noon-1pm in the large conference room in Eden. This seminar presentation will consider the construction of Afghan statehood as a ‘frontier state’ through the development of colonial knowledge by the British in India. The presentation will delineate the intellectual origins of this knowledge, its influence on policy decisions,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosts-stance-seminar - 2025-12-05

SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both the duration of the prog

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/michael-palin-scholarship-announced-ma-south-asia-studies-soas - 2025-12-05

In order to broaden the collaboration between Swedish religious studies scholars, SASNET Director Andreas Johansson took the initiative in the formation of a new journal on religion that seeks to popularize results and insights from religious studies. The new journal will be issued once or twice per year. The journal follows SASNET’s mission of spreading research in a format accessible to the gene

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-launches-new-journal-religion-general-public - 2025-12-05

On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pays particular attention to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2025-12-05

In 2017 Maria worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at SASNET, where she continued her exploration of the concept of recognition, this time focusing on online communities of men’s rights activists in India now she rejoins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. As a SASNET affiliated researcher, Maria plans to contribute to the research environment that SASNET fosters by intensifying collaborations with

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-05

SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini has published two articles on gender issues in India. Read the paper entitled “Men are Vulnerable, Too: Analysing the Self- Presentation of Indian Men’s Rights Activists in Online Networks” here  Read the article “Stor seger för Indiens HBTQ-befolkning” in Sydasien here (in Swedish)  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-publishes-two-articles - 2025-12-05

Anna Lindberg earned her Ph.D. in history from Lund University in 2001. She is the author of an interdisciplinary book of class, caste, and gender in the Indian state of Kerala from the 1930s to 2000. She has lived in India for many years and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvanathapuram. Her research combines qualitative life histories with archival sources to examin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anna-lindberg-rejoins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-05

Within the framework of the ongoing collaboration between SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the latter hosted today an exciting round-table on the past, present and future challenges of American-Indian relations. The event, organized by SASNET affiliated researcher Henrik Chetan Aspengren, saw the participation of Swedish government officials as well as members of the busi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-swedish-institute-international-affairs - 2025-12-05

Kristina Myrvold joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher which will broaden SASNET:s cooperation with other universities in Sweden. Kristina Myrvold earned her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Lund University and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University with a focus on Indian religions and cultures. Her area of specialization is Sikh and Punjab Studies, focusing on Sik

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kristina-myrvold-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-05

The 14th of October Micol Mieli defended her doctorate dissertation, Smartphoned Tourists in the Phygital Tourist Experience. The thesis explores the smartphones role in the tourist experience, how the experience become phygital (both physical and digital) and the concept of planned serendipity. About the thesis The thesis aim is to explore the smartphones role in the tourist experience, in partic

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-thesis-regarding-phygital-tourist-experience - 2025-12-05

This is the question guiding a new study in the project “Consuming digital data”, with the purpose to see how the consumer experience and feels about the collection of their personal data. The study was conducted by Christian Fuentes, professor at Lund University and Niklas Sörum, Docent at University of Borås. Everything we do online is traced. Some information we provide our selves when we regis

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-study-how-do-consumers-experience-online-data-collection - 2025-12-05

During the following three weeks our department hosts Manisha Anantharaman, PhD, Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California. – I am so happy to have the opportunity to spend some time with you at Lund. I hope to engage with many of you regarding ideas or work-in-progress. The visit began with a guest lecture with the topic of circular economy and

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/visit-and-guest-lecture-department-manisha-anantharaman - 2025-12-05

During the past week some of the institutions researches with focus on retail attended the Nordic Retail and Wholesale conference (NRWC) to present their research. Krisitna Bäckström, senior lecturer at our department, won the award for best paper. For the eigth time the NRWC was arranged by the Nordic Retail and Wholesale Association, this time at Tampere University. NRWC is a science conference

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/kristina-backstrom-awarded-research-conference-finland - 2025-12-05

Despite an increasing number of informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces in Sweden and our society, not everyone feel that they can use them. Public spaces for physical activity are dominated by boys and men, while girls and women are under-represented. The research project Equalizer examines the barriers that hinders different groups access to these spaces and methods to remove the obstacle

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/methods-disturbance-gives-more-people-access-public-places - 2025-12-05