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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 27 October, SASNET will host an online conversation on student lives and activism opposing caste in India with speakers Deepa Dhanraj and Natha Wahlang. Prior to the event, participants are encouraged to watch Deepa Dhanraj's 2018 movie "We have not come here to die" about the suicide of Dalit, Phd research scholar

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-movie-screening-and-conversation-student-activism-india - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET published a report by Muhammed Niyas Ashraf, Doctoral Fellow at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin. Abstract:This paper offers a social history of the relationship between Islamic reform and malayāḷi Muslim in the context of colonial Kerala. Kerala Muslims are one o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-publication-islamic-reformism - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET's and UI's South Asia Initiative publishes first episode of three-part podcast series on climate and environment issues in South Asia. The South Asia Initiative (SAI), which is co-hosted by SASNET and Utrikespolitiska Institutet, has published the first episode of its podcast series "Climate Lens South Asia" on

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-podcast-climate-lense-south-asia - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr V.Sivasubramanian, Director of Phycospectrum Environmental Research Centre (PERC) and Professor N Thajuddin, Head, Department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli holds a SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with Deptertm

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-microalgal-biotechnology-research-india - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Join us for a digital seminar on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 100th anniversary, post-colonial leader and the founder of Bangladesh. Register here to attend the Zoom Webinar.The speakers will also present Anisur Rahman's book Jag är Sheikh Mujib. Bengali-Swedish author Rahman's epic monologue I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/upcoming-seminar-sheikh-mujib-icon-postcolonial-liberation - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr. Anindita Majumdar from Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, India. holds a SASNET/Gender studies lecture at Lund University on Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15.00–17.00.The seminar, is entitled ” Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World”. Venue: Room 221, Department of Gender Studies, Al

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetgender-studies-seminar-conflicted-kinship-transnational-world - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Chakra - Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies's Special Issue "Articulations of a Pandemic" is now available on our website. Earlier this year, SASNET had published a call for papers focusing on social-political, cultural, economic, and psychological cost of COVID-19 as well as the question of how to do proper re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-special-issue-published - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Un

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/david-ludden-guest-lectures-copenhagen - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliate-kristina-myrvold-receives-research-grant - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2020-published - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sai-climate-lens-podcast-episode - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Adv

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-cmes-report-jihadi-salafism - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-education-women-afghanistan - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 H

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetupf-seminar-indias-and-chinas-roles-tibet - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 availab

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-indo-bangladeshi-borderlands - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-ctr-organised-nordic-workshop-indian-religions - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-grant-applications-one-month-position-prepare-research-application - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/inaugural-lecture-sujata-patel-umea-university - 2026-07-21

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 - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Pres

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/pictures-networking-day - 2026-07-21