A total number of 29 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 2.68 Million SEK. Decisions taken on 30 August 2005. SEK 500 000 were distributed. Planning grants for continued research programmes Baboo M. Nair, Dept. of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University: “Creation of data base and interactive website for SA

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A total number of 19 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 1.61 Million SEK. Decisions taken on 28 February 2006. SEK 305 000 were distributed. Planning grants for research programmes/projects Pernille Gooch, Division of Human Ecology, Lund University: ”Mangrove conservation as a sustainable life insurance for coastal Tamil Nadu communities.” SEK 45 00

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A total number of 17 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Total amount applied for was 968 500 SEK. Decisions were taken on 29 August 2006. SEK 458 000 were distributed.  Networking grant/planning for continued research project Marc Katz, Dept. of Religious Studies, Karlstad University: ”The Vitality and Role of ‘Sporting Clubs’ in the Multi-Cultural Community: A Study of the Tra

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A total number of 20 applications for SASNET planning grants were received. Decisions were taken on 28 August 2007. Total amount applied for was SEK 1,798,285. Networking grants/planning for new research projects Maria Andersson, Department of Biotechnology, Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lund University: ”Sol-gel encapsulation of biomolecules – special emphasis on developing cost-

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A total number of 52 applications for SASNET planning grants were received.Total amount applied for was SEK 4 289 019. Decisions were taken on 26 August 2008. SEK 965 000 were distributed.  Networking grants/planning for new research projects Anders Björkman, Malaria Research Unit, Dept. of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm: ”Molecular characterization of clinical isola

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PhD candidate Shveta Soam from Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research in Faridabad, India, did a short-term fellowship at the Division of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies in the Department of Technology and Society in September till November 2015. Shveta in front of Lund University building SASNET asked Shveta five questions after her leave:Who are you?Shveta Soam, PhD Research scholar, IO

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Dr. Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth from the Department of History at University of Delhi in India, did a short-term fellowship at the Department Human Geography in September till October 2015. SASNET asked Nisha five questions after her leave: Who are you?Dr. Nisha Poyyaprath Rayaroth, Independent ScholarWhat did you do at Lund University?I was on a short term postdoctoral fellowship with the Departmen

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Mashiur Rahman from the Department of Sociology at Dhaka University in Bangladesh, did a short-term fellowship at the Department of Sociology in May till June 2015. Mashiur Rahman, Kakali Adhikary, Tayeb Husain and Ashok Sajjanhar SASNET asked Mashiur five questions after his leave.Who are you?Md. Mashiur Rahman, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka.What did you do at Lund Unive

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For the Spring semester 2015, SASA awarded travel grants to Jacco Visser Masters student in Asian Studies, Sharmin Rashid Master student in Social Studies of Gender, Sixten Lundquist and Anna Berggren Bachelor students in Developments Studies. Jacco VisserJacco Visser, Masters student in Asian Studies, went to Dhaka, Bangladesh to look at how rural-urban migrants are included in the global economy

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Anna Lindberg was the director of SASNET, the South Asian Studies Network at Lund University, from July 2007 until November 2016.   Anna Lindberg and Nishi Mitra vom Berg, Photo: Lars Eklund Her aim has been to transform SASNET from a national network financed by SIDA, whose financing ended in 2010, into a Lund University based research network. She formerly taught history and gender studies at Lu

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SASNET has organised various conferences and workshops since the creation of the network in 2001.  Find an overview of previous conferences and other events in the left menu. Calendar Don't miss out on our upcoming events.

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SASNET conducts and promotes interdisciplinary research on South Asia. Read more about current and past research projects in the left menu.  

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On behalf of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS), SASNET successfully hosted the Ninth European PhD workshop in South Asia Studies, in Höllviken 30 km south of Malmö, Sweden, on 18–19 May 2015. SASNET has organised these EASAS workshops twice before. This was a two-day annual workshop for a maximum of 20 PhD candidates and six faculty members from European universities with an

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Former Professor emeritus in sociology at Lund University From 2000 to 2007, Lindberg founded and coordinated the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University. During this time, a number of collaborative research projects were stimulated, including support for meetings of South Asian sociologists in 2005.   Staffan Lindberg holding his publication "Miraklet Indien och dess baksi

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Here SASNET puts up information about upcoming South Asian Conferences outside Lund. Read more in the left menu. 

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22-23 September in New York, USA The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) on September 22-23, 2017 with the theme: “Consuming Asia” on September 22-23, 2017 in Geneva, USA. NYCAS is a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies.The NYCAS 2017 program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, 

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Here we collect information about South Asian related conferences. Select the event you want to know more about in the left column.

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Azerbajdzjans fientlighet mot Armenien fortsätter på fotbollsplan (Svante Lundgren)Sedan kriget om Nagorno-Karabach i början av 1990-talet råder extrem fientlighet mellan grannländerna Armenien och Azerbajdzjan. I det senare landet har denna fientlighet lett till rasistisk hets, skriver Svante Lundgren.https://www.opulens.se/opinion/azerbajdzjans-fientlighet-mot-armenien-fortsatter-pa-fotbollsplan

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Dalia AbdelhadyDiaspora, globalization, Syrian refugees, integration, second generation, cultural expression, gender Mohammed AlmahfaliYemen, Human Rights in the Arab World, Capacity-building in Higher Education, Sustainable and Equitable Post-conflict Recovery Rola El-HusseiniLebanon, Hezbollah, Gender and politics, Arab world, Sectarianism Orwa AjjoubJihadism; Salafi-Jihadist groups; Islamic the

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