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During Almedalsveckan, a weeklong event on the island of Gotland where Sweden’s top political parties and organizations give talks and seminars, SASNET held two seminars on India together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Six Year Plan. You can listen to both seminars here. Panel 1: India: an emerging power – implications for Asia and beyond Speakers Constantino Xavier,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/listen-seminar-almedalen - 2025-12-13

SASNET’s South Asia Library received a generous donation in the form of a Gandhi Collection from the relatives of the late Professor Lars Lindström. Lars Lindström (1943–2018) was since 1999 a professor in pedagogy. In 2008 he became a professor at Stockholm University at the Department of Educational Science where he worked on technical, aesthetic and practical traditions of knowledge. Lars’ inte

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/second-gandhi-collection-donated-sasnet - 2025-12-13

This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy (2011), with a dissertation on American-Iranian and Anglo-Iranian rel

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2025-12-13

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo gave an interview on the security situation in Afghanistan in an article published by the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. Skodo calls the situation in Afghanistan "an asymmetrical war which switches between high and low intensity." He also points out that Afghanistan and its neighbors to the east and west face a water supply crisis which might have dire consequences

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-gave-interview-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-12-13

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in Sydasien on the Swedish election. The article explores how Swedish political parties view South Asia. Read the article here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-sydasien - 2025-12-13

The STANCE brownbag lunch seminar is held Wednesday September 12 from 12noon-1pm in the large conference room in Eden. This seminar presentation will consider the construction of Afghan statehood as a ‘frontier state’ through the development of colonial knowledge by the British in India. The presentation will delineate the intellectual origins of this knowledge, its influence on policy decisions,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosts-stance-seminar - 2025-12-13

SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both the duration of the prog

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/michael-palin-scholarship-announced-ma-south-asia-studies-soas - 2025-12-13

In order to broaden the collaboration between Swedish religious studies scholars, SASNET Director Andreas Johansson took the initiative in the formation of a new journal on religion that seeks to popularize results and insights from religious studies. The new journal will be issued once or twice per year. The journal follows SASNET’s mission of spreading research in a format accessible to the gene

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-launches-new-journal-religion-general-public - 2025-12-13

On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pays particular attention to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2025-12-13

In 2017 Maria worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at SASNET, where she continued her exploration of the concept of recognition, this time focusing on online communities of men’s rights activists in India now she rejoins SASNET as an affiliated researcher. As a SASNET affiliated researcher, Maria plans to contribute to the research environment that SASNET fosters by intensifying collaborations with

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-13

SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini has published two articles on gender issues in India. Read the paper entitled “Men are Vulnerable, Too: Analysing the Self- Presentation of Indian Men’s Rights Activists in Online Networks” here  Read the article “Stor seger för Indiens HBTQ-befolkning” in Sydasien here (in Swedish)  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-publishes-two-articles - 2025-12-13

Anna Lindberg earned her Ph.D. in history from Lund University in 2001. She is the author of an interdisciplinary book of class, caste, and gender in the Indian state of Kerala from the 1930s to 2000. She has lived in India for many years and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvanathapuram. Her research combines qualitative life histories with archival sources to examin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/anna-lindberg-rejoins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-13

Within the framework of the ongoing collaboration between SASNET and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the latter hosted today an exciting round-table on the past, present and future challenges of American-Indian relations. The event, organized by SASNET affiliated researcher Henrik Chetan Aspengren, saw the participation of Swedish government officials as well as members of the busi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-swedish-institute-international-affairs - 2025-12-13

Kristina Myrvold joins SASNET as an affiliated researcher which will broaden SASNET:s cooperation with other universities in Sweden. Kristina Myrvold earned her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Lund University and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Linnaeus University with a focus on Indian religions and cultures. Her area of specialization is Sikh and Punjab Studies, focusing on Sik

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kristina-myrvold-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2025-12-13

SASNET is proud to announce that as of 2020 it will become a research-focused center in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This development testifies to growing importance of South Asian Studies at Lund University, and the confidence the university has in SASNET’s ability to create a strong research environment and network of scholars. Until 2020, SASNET will remain as an autonomous part of the Cente

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-will-become-research-focused-center-2020 - 2025-12-13

The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment and transfer of knowledge/

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2025-12-13

The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics (Poland). AbstractSince the late 20th century, the issue of accommod

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-muslim-minorities-europe-and-india - 2025-12-13

SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should have CREST as their base and s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-12-13

For the third year, SASNET invites 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. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range to a maximum of SEK 35 000. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-one-month-position-prepare-research-application-lund-university-0 - 2025-12-13

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-afghan-asylum-seekers - 2025-12-13