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Eda Farsakoglu presents a paper entitled The Queer Art of Seeking Asylum: Tracing Im/Mobility through Experiences of Iranian Queer Refugee Claimants in Turkey. The paper is based on a multi-sited ethnographic research project that Eda Farsakoglu conducted for her PhD project with Iranian queers seeking refugee status in the transit migratory space of Turkey. It poses the following questions: How a

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/crip-and-queer-seminar-queer-art-seeking-asylum - 2025-12-15

Den fjortonde april var två av institutionens lärare, Diana Mulinari och Irina Schmitt, bjudna till Malmö Latin för att bidra till skolans likabehandlingsvecka. Under titeln Hur jämställdheten ser ut i Sverige idag - är det jämställt i Sverige idag? gjorde Diana och Irina korta nedslag i det historiska arbetet med jämställdhet och social rättvisa i Sverige. De diskuterade också vad som tas för giv

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/lararbesok-pa-malmo-latin - 2025-12-15

Anindita Majumdar is a guest researcher here at the Department of Gender Studies. On Wednesday 27 April she will give a seminar entitled Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World. The seminar focuses on an ethnographic study of the practice of commercial gestational surrogacy in a transnational context. Embedded in an Indian setting but involving a transnational engagement with technology, laws,

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2025-12-15

"Buying and selling sex: Between pleasure, work and exploitation" is the title of Giula Garofalo Geymonat's new book, now in Swedish. The Gender Studies Department and Daidalos Publishers proudly invite you to a book release at the Gender studies Department on April 28 at 17:15.

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/new-book-prostitution - 2025-12-15

PhD student Maria Tonini will defend her dissertation thesis, The Ambiguities of Recognition - Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India, on 13 May. Welcome to the defence in Auditoriet/Hörsalen at Kulturen at Tegnérplatsen in Lund.Date: 13 May 2016Time: 13.15

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/phd-defence-maria-tonini - 2025-12-15

Thursday May 12, 2016, 15.00-17.00, SASNET and the Dept. of Gender Studies organize a seminar with Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on the Criminalization of Homosexuality in India (Room M221). The seminar is entitled (Un)Making Sexual States: Antisodomy Law and Racialization in India.Friday May 13, 2016, 13:15-16, Kulturens Hörsal, Lund Prof. Jyoti Puri is th

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/seminar-professor-jyoti-puri - 2025-12-15

Guest lecture to be held by Professor David Ludden on April 27 at University of Copenhagen David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History at New York University, holds an open lecture entitled: History Inside Globalization: Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia at University of Copenhagen on 27 April 2016, 9.00-11.00. The seminar is organized by

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2025-12-15

Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, was awarded a grant by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Dr. Myrvold received funding for her project "Iconic Scriptures in Colonial Punjab: Sikh Religion, Print Culture, and Politics" (project description below). For many years, her research has been focusing on intersections of religion and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2025-12-15

The year 2020 has not been without challenges, but at SASNET we have succeeded in continuing to build knowledge and research on the South Asian region through a variety of formats and international collaborations. 2020 was a turbulent year, but despite the pandemic-related challenges, we at SASNET can look back on a wide range of activities carried out to bolster knowledge and research on South As

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2025-12-15

In the third episode of SAI's "Climate Lens" podcast, Julia Wiraeus talks to three experts on South Asia's water crisis and the way forward. South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, will see their homes disappear with rising water levels in the coming decades. Wha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2025-12-15

Researcher Orwa Ajjoub explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. In his newly published report "From Afghanistan to Syria: The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism", funded by SASNET and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, researcher Orwa Ajjoub interroga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2025-12-15

The report was written by former SASNET intern Maliha Shir Mohammad and is a summary of her MA thesis. In her report "Education as an empowerment tool for women in Afghanistan: the insider perspectives of educated Afghan women", Maliha Shir Mohammad explores the understudied topic of the lived experiences of educated Afghan women and investigates their perspectives on education as an empowerment t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2025-12-15

SASNET and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF) jointly organized a seminar on “Tibet as an (Inter)National Problem” – focusing on China’s and India’s respective roles in Tibet, on Wednesday 20 April 2016, at 19.00. The speaker was Dr. Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor in International Relations and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2025-12-15

Dr. Amrita Ghosh, currently visiting researcher at SASNET, released her report "Fuzzy Borders and Postcolonial Forgotten Zones: The Case of Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves" as part of a preliminary pilot project focusing on questions of identity and space across the complex Bengal borderlands. The full report is now available on our website. Abstract: This is a preliminary pilot project that encompasses

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2025-12-15

On 10 Feburary 2021, SASNET together with the Lund University Center for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) hosted a virtual workshop on "Nordic Collaboration in Research and Education on Indian Religions". After a welcome by the organisers Dr. Kristina Myrvold, Visiting Professor at CTR, and Dr. Andreas Johansson, SASNET Director, scholars from institutions in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Swede

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-ctr-organised-nordic-workshop-indian-religions - 2025-12-15

For the second year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund University to apply for a one-month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. SASNET have granted two proposals this year. The two proposals granted was gender studies researcher Maria Tonini’s project “A new lesbian visibility? Queer women and social media in contemporary Indi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-grant-applications-one-month-position-prepare-research-application - 2025-12-15

Patel is currently in Sweden as a Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professor, co-hosted by SASNET. On Wednesday, 7 April 2021, from 10:15 to 12:00, Prof. Sujata Patel will hold a virtual inaugural lecture, marking the start of her 2021 Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship. The inaugural lecture, entitled ’Colonialism and Its Knowledges’, addresses the ways in which the postcolonial, the decolonial

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/inaugural-lecture-sujata-patel-umea-university - 2025-12-15

On 17 May at 18:00, SASNET invites you to join the virtual book launch of Anna Lindberg's first novel, Ameena's Journey (or the book that wrote itself). In her book, Lindberg tells the story of Ameena, a young girl from eastern Afghanistan who is forced to flee with her family from the Taliban and embarks on a tumultuous journey that eventually leads her to Sweden. For more information about the b

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-ameenas-resa-anna-lindberg - 2025-12-15

See pictures from the Networking Day taken by Andreas Johansson, research coordinator at SASNET. The Networking Day was organised in collaboration with researchers at University of Copenhagen, and opened with an introductory addressed by David Ludden (photo), Professor of History at New York University and former President of the Association for Asian Studies. The planning committee for this event

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pictures-networking-day - 2025-12-15

The project "A Nation and its Fault Lines" was launched in June 2021 and is led by SASNET researchers Dr. Amrita Ghosh and Dr. Isha Dubey. The project focuses on the historical ruptures within the Indian nation since the Partition of 1947, 1971 and the present, which includes the long Kashmir conflict as a painful legacy of colonial border demarcations and the construction of the two nation-states

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-research-project-partition-and-its-aftereffects - 2025-12-15