Published 28 March 2017 The Center for South Asia at University of Wisconsin in Madison invites scholars, students, professionals, and anyone interested in research to the 46th Annual Conference on South Asia on 26-29 October 2017. Panel submissions are due by 1 April 2017. The Annual Conference on South Asia invites scholars, students, professionals, and anyone interested in research on the regio

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Published 20 March 2017 Some of SASNET's lectures have been recorded and can be watched on its Youtube Channel. In February Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas held a lecture entitled: "Is ‘global’ English compatible with local language ecologies and principles of language rights, or a neoimperialist project?". Watch the video. Go for the Youtube Channel. 

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Published 3 April 2017 Dr. Ruchi Gaur, Senior Scientific Officer at DBT-IOC centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research visited Lund University 19th March 2017 to 1st April 2017. Dr. Ruchi Gaur was visiting as a partnership agreement signed between DBT-IOC Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research and Lund University on the sharing of research expertise. The partnership agreement is based on developing

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Published 5 April 2017 Nils-Axel Mörner, Professor Emeritus and former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University, recently published an article entitled: "Coastal morphology and sea-level changes in Goa, India during the last 500 years" in Journal of Coastal Research, 33:2, 421-434. Abstract: Coastal morphology, stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, archaeological

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Published 26 April 2017 Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA seeks a historian to teach two courses, one in each semester of the 2017-18 school year. The applicant should have expertise in one of the following fields of history: Modern Russia, Middle East, or South Asia. The position is a two-semester limited term appointment as a leave replacement. The successfull candidate will teach one introductor

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Published 26 April 2017 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet, UI) is looking for researchers, preferably at the postdoc level. They will consider applications based on a broad range of topics. Successful applicants will join one of UI’s five programs: Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eurasia, and Global Politics and Security. Deadlin

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Published 24 April 2017 The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Asia. Deadline is on Wednesday 10 May, 2017. The applicant should have a Ph.D. in humanities, social sciences, or computer science field relevant to the analysis of digital media in Asia or in Asian languages. The position is from 1 September 2017 through Au

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Published 25 April 2017 Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History is offering a PhD Position in ‘Negotiating Conversion and Family Law in Eighteenth Century Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka’. Deadline is May 28, 2017. From September 1, 2017, the Leiden University Institute for History will be appointing a PhD for a four-year period, within the NWO financed project “Colonialism inside

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Published 22 April 2017 Photo: Harvard University The Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, seeks applications for a preceptor in Sanskrit. Deadline for submission is May 12, 2017. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2017. The preceptor will be responsible for language instruction and course development at all levels and across all genres and time periods of Sanskrit. The

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Published 21 April 2017 The Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM) call for papers for its 2018 conference. The conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17th June, 2018. Submit applications before 30th September 2017. Y-SASM provides a platform for young scholars working on South Asia to present their work and to ensue fruitful discussions and debates.The theme for the conference in 2

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Published 20 April 2017 Papers are invited for the 5th International Congress of Bengal Studies scheduled to be held during 25th – 28th January, 2018. The 5th Congress will be hosted by Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Last date for submission of abstract is 15th May, 2017. Papers, in English or Bengali, on all areas of Bengal Studies, including, but not limited to, Literature a

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Published 19 April 2017 The Master of Arts Health and Society in South Asia (MAHASSA) is a two-year degree, focusing on Medical Anthropology and South Asian Studies. It is integrated with the curriculum at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute. The application deadline for international students is June 15th, 2017. MAHASSA combines Medical Anthropology with South Asian Studies. Medical Anth

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Published 18 April 2017 The conference entitled: “Challenging Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora: A Global Conference on Diaspora Studies and Policies.” will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands from 5 to 7 October 2017. Submit abstract before 30 May 2017. In this international conference the organizers would like to broaden the scope on the Indian

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Published 17 April 2017 The Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany invite applications for two doctoral positions for the duration of three years under the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship programme. This is part of the Global India project of European Training Network (ETN H2020). The Global India ETN will deliver a world-class multi-sectoral

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Published 26 April 2017 The 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference entitled: "Environmental Asia"will be held 20-22 November 2017 in Oslo, Norway. The conference is jointly organized by the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at Oslo University and the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS). The conference will be combined with a PhD course 23-24 November. Deadline f

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Published 17 April 2017 The Center of History at Sciences Po Paris invites applications for a position of full Professor in the history of Asia. This position aims at reinforcing the international development of the Center of history at Sciences Po. All areas of research in the history of Asia are concerned, with a preference for the political history of the 20th century, understood in the broades

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Published 16 April 2017 The Nepal Study Center is pleased to announce the Himalayan Policy Research Conference to be held on October 26, 2017, in Madison, Wisconsin, at the pre-conference venue of the University of Wisconsin's 46th Annual Conference on South Asia (October 26-29, 2017). The conference organizers invite abstract of research, recently completed or in progress, in the field of develop

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Published 20 April 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Conversation on How immigration detention compares around the world. Since the 1980s, all major Western states practice what they call civil or administrative confinement of undocumented immigrants and non-citizens. But this practice of putting undocumented immigrants – as well as asylum seekers – in detention ce

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Published 29 April 2017 The North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will hold a conference 1-2 February 2018 in New Delhi, India. The conference theme is: "Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries". The last date of abstract submission is 15 July, 2017. The idea of frontiers, borders and borderlands have historically constituted important

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Published 27 April 2017 Call for applications for Ph.D. course entitled: "Forging Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and beyond" to be held 18-22 September, 2017 at University of Oslo in Norway. The course is organised by The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo. Application deadline is 2 May, 2017. The cour

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