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Call for papers for the panel on "Producing and consuming photography in South Asia" at the 25th ECSAS conference. ECSAS 2018 is taking place at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, from 24 to 27 July 2018. This panel seeks contributions pertaining to the history of the commercial practices and popular uses of photography in South Asia between 1840 and 1980. Papers

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-panel-photography-south-asia - 2025-12-17

Call for paper for dissertation workshop on ethnography of connections to be held 20th November 2017 at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world. As scholarly attention increasingly shifts to themes of commodification, s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-dissertation-workshop-ethnography-connections - 2025-12-17

SASNET and Sydasien form an exciting collaboration that will help disseminate news and research about South Asia to a broader audience. The magazine Sydasien is an important channel for spreading news and analyses about South Asia in the Swedish language. Sydasien was founded in 1977. First appearing in print, Sydasien transitioned into an online-only format in 2011 (www.sydasien.se).  Through a n

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-sydasien-form-exciting-collaboration - 2025-12-17

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo wrote an article for the Times Literary Supplement entitled "Permanent crisis of legitimacy". Afghanistan is an ethnicity with a state. That is the bottom line of Niamatullah Ibrahimi’s book, which maps the political relationships between the Pashtun-dominated nation and the Hazaras, Afghanistan’s third largest ethnic group (after the Tajiks), and a deeply marginalize

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-published-times-literary-supplement - 2025-12-17

The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce its second Annual Conference on South Asia, to be held from Thursday 26 April to Friday 27 April 2018 at Dublin City University, Ireland. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and practitioners involved wit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-ireland-india-institute-conference - 2025-12-17

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges and the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American studies, to begin July 1, 2018. The Department is seeking a scholar who approaches history from an interdisciplinary perspective and who has res

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-asian-american-studies - 2025-12-17

The History Department at Denison University invites applications for a one-year visiting position in the history of the Middle East or South Asia to begin in Fall 2018. Teaching responsibilities in a 3/3 load include a two-semester introductory survey sequence in the Middle East or South Asia and upper level seminars in the candidate’s areas of expertise. Ability to teach courses in the pre-moder

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-visiting-assistant-professor-history-0 - 2025-12-17

On Monday 30 October 13.15, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler held a lecture entitled: "Jewish identity and literature in contemporary India" at LUX. The lecture was organised by SASNET and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. The focus of the lecture were three Indo-Jewish authors, two in English and one in Hindi: Nissim Ezechiel, Esther David and Sheila Rohekar. While E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-lecture-jewish-identity-and-literature-contemporary-india - 2025-12-17

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University seeks to appoint a full-time, tenured faculty member in a field in the Asian Humanities beginning in Fall, 2018. The Department welcomes candidates who work across multiple genres and media, from classical to contemporary periods, and in any Asian languages. They are particularly interested in a scholar and teacher who combi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-associate-or-full-professor-asian-humanities - 2025-12-17

On Tuesday 21 November Otso Harju, PhD student in Gender studies at the University of Helsinki, held a lecture on "Power, learning and the politics of friendship in intercultural fieldwork" at Asian Studies. In 2016 Otso Harju conducted a fieldwork for his Master thesis with the help of SASA travel grant. Feminist fieldwork – power, learning and the politics of friendship in intercultural fieldwor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-power-learning-and-politics-friendship-intercultural-fieldwork - 2025-12-17

SASNET researcher Maria Tonini together with Lisa Eklund, Catarina Kinnvall and Helle Rydström at Lund University will start a Research Project entitled "Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women Employees in Nordic Companies Outsourced to Asia". The project will be funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) for three years. Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-project-precariousness-work-funded-swedish-research-council - 2025-12-17

Celia Boltes, journalist student at Lund University, received SASA travel grant in the spring of 2017. In September 2017 she travelled to Nepal for a field work. Celia has now returned to Lund and has written a report. Celia Boltes' report:During the spring of 2017 I was happy to achieve the South Asian Student Association's travel grant. I had been traveling in Asia many times before, and I was a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/journalist-student-celia-boltes-conducted-field-work-nepal - 2025-12-17

On September 22-24, SASNET researcher Maria Tonini joined the 2017 EASAS Doctoral Workshop as a senior scholar. The workshop took place in the breathtaking island of Procida, off the Gulf of Naples, Italy. At the EASAS workshop, 15 doctoral students from EASAS partner universities had the opportunity to present a text from their dissertation and receive in-depth feedback from senior scholars and p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-collaboration-easas-doctoral-workshop - 2025-12-17

In October the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson visited New Delhi. During this visit he discussed possibilities for collaborations between different institutions in India and Lund University. Andreas together with the Nordic Center of India (NC) met with professor A K Ramakrishnan at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and discussed the possibility of creating a summer course for Nordic stu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-visited-new-delhi - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

Today we conducted this falls second nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Anna Spitzkat nailed her doctors thesis. Anna is defending her thesis during a dissertation at the 9th of December here at Campus Helsingborg. The title of the thesis is ”Understanding Social Media Shopping – Instagram and the reconfiguration of the practice of shopping”. With Annas own words:   "Instagram, i

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/anna-spitzkat-nailed-her-dissertation - 2025-12-17