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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Government of Sri Lanka is calling for applications for the Presidential Scholarships for Foreign Students for the academic year 2016/2017. Last date for submission of application is 8 May 2017. Government of Sri Lanka Presidential Scholarships programme for Foreign Students implemented by the Ministry of Higher E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sri-lanka-scholarships-foreign-students - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is a member of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI). Scholars and representatives of the member universities have the opportunity to stay at the Director's residence in Delhi. The Centre is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It wa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-member-nordic-centre-india-nci - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on how American education and incarceration have become entangled, entitled: "Shades of the prison-house" in the Times Literary Supplement. After Donald Trump won the United States presidential election, stock prices increased for CoreCivic and the Geo Group, two

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-how-american-education-and-incarceration-have-become-entangled - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Full house May 3rd when more than 70 people came and listened to Jan-Inge Bengtsson, who talked about the art of afghan carpets at Lunds konsthall. The lecture was organised by SASNET in collaboration with Lunds konsthall and ABF. Jan-Inge Bengtsson, active in SAK (The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan), showed carpet

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lunch-talk-art-afghan-carpets-attracted-many-listeners - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A conflict simulation involving the current conflict and proxy war in Syria and Iraq, originally developed as a teaching resource for the MA in Middle Eastern Studies run by CMES, is being transformed into an interactive short simulation course that will eventually be available to schools and organizations in Sweden a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/cmes-and-sasnet-collaboration-develop-innovative-educational-resource - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SAARC International Conference on “Buddhist Cultural Trails: Journey Through Time & Space, of Merchants, Monks & Pilgrims, Reconciliation of the South Asian Region with the Exchange of Information” will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 25-27 August 2017. The Buddhist Cultural Trail conference will be the first in a serie

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-saarc-conference-buddhist-cultural-trails - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Dag Erik Berg, Research Fellow from the Diversity & Inequality Research Group at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has published a new article entitled: "Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy" in the Journal of Internation

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-race-political-frontier-against-caste - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Inc. (Cambridge, USA) seeks a Buddhist Studies Research Scholar to lead the development of an online repository of Buddhist texts and cultural heritage information. The Buddhist Studies Post-Doctoral Research Scholar will provide scholarly expertise in Buddhist Studies to advance

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-buddhist-studies-research-scholar - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is currently seeking a C-MAP fellow specializing in Asian art, with a focus on Indian and South Asian art. Application deadline is June 1, 2017. In 2009, The Museum of Modern Art launched Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a global research initiative. The pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-c-map-fellow-asian-art - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Apply for the SUPRA Nordic scholarship before 1 June 2017. The SUPRA Nordic scholarship is one of the most important features of NIAS' Support Programme for Asian Studies. It is designed to make NIAS’ digital library and other resources accessible to PhD candidates and MA students in the Nordic countries. The scholars

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nias-supra-nordic-scholarship - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET's One Month Position to prepare a research application at Lund University goes to PhD scholar Shveta Soam. Shveta Soam will apply for a collaborative research project entitled: "Comparative environmental and economic analysis of biomass waste utilization strategies for biofuel production in Sweden and India". F

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-s-one-month-position-2017-goes-shveta-soam-0 - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grant to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, for the fieldwork for his Master thesis. The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. The thesis has now been published. During his fieldwork in the In

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-student-published-paper-domestic-workers-delhi - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On May 11, 2017 at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies organized a networking day focusing on Asia. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson attended the one-day event. The motive for the conference was to “finding everyone

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asia-networking-day-stockholm - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Call for papers for the eighth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies - ACT 2017 will be held 18-19 August, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Last date of paper submission is 15 June 2017. ACT 2017, aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and schol

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-act-conference-2017 - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme. The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017. The European Inst

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-eurias-fellowship-programme - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Did you know that SASNET has a Twitter account ? Follow and join discussions on hashtag #SASNET. Go to the Twitter account. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-has-twitter-account - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish).  Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative study and inquiry, both

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2026-04-23

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Southeast Asia. Deadline f

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2026-04-23

For several years, it has become increasingly clear that developments in tourism need to change direction and be done in a new, more sustainable way. To change the tourism industry, we need to understand it better in practice - how small tourism enterprises are run and developed. - A new way to approach tourism development and innovation is to focus on the individual and mundane aspect, says Stuar

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/touring-tourism-enterprising-new-thesis-offers-another-view-tourism-development - 2026-04-23