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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article (in Swedish) on migration and the Afghan state. The article is entitled "Välutbildade migranter kan bygga stark afghansk stat" and appears in the June issue of Afghanistan Nytt. Afghanistan Nytt is published four times a year and you can order it here (in Swedish)

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-afghanistan-nytt - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/listen-seminar-almedalen - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/second-gandhi-collection-donated-sasnet - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-visiting-scholar-sasnet - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-gave-interview-svenska-dagbladet - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosts-stance-seminar - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/michael-palin-scholarship-announced-ma-south-asia-studies-soas - 2026-09-09

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-launches-new-journal-religion-general-public - 2026-09-09

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2026-09-09

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researcher - 2026-09-09

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-affiliated-researcher-publishes-two-articles - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish).  Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative study and inquiry, both

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Southeast Asia. Deadline f

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Call for papers for the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) Conference 2017. The Conference will be held 27-29 November in Dunedin, New Zealand. Deadline for papers submission is 30 June 2017. In line with NZASIA's key objectives, their biennial conference is multidisciplinary and aims at bringing together scho

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-studies - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Call for papers for publication in Asia in Focus - A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers- Issue 5, Winter 2017. Deadline for paper submission is 21 August 2017. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Asia in Focus was initiated

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Habib University invites paper and panel submissions for the Questioning South Asia Conference to be hold 22-24 November 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2017. The geopolitical significance of South Asia has been a well-known fact in policy and security studies for the last severa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-south-asia-conference-karachi-pakistan - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Tuesday 9 May 2017, Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg held a lecture entitled: "Child marriages in India: Human Rights Violations that go unchecked" at LUX B152. The lecture was jointly organized by Human Rights Studies and SASNET at Lund University. The lecture was recorded and has been published at SASNET's Youtube

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-human-rights-violations-go-unchecked - 2026-09-09