Published 20 April 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Conversation on How immigration detention compares around the world. Since the 1980s, all major Western states practice what they call civil or administrative confinement of undocumented immigrants and non-citizens. But this practice of putting undocumented immigrants – as well as asylum seekers – in detention ce

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Published 29 April 2017 The North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will hold a conference 1-2 February 2018 in New Delhi, India. The conference theme is: "Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries". The last date of abstract submission is 15 July, 2017. The idea of frontiers, borders and borderlands have historically constituted important

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Published 27 April 2017 Call for applications for Ph.D. course entitled: "Forging Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and beyond" to be held 18-22 September, 2017 at University of Oslo in Norway. The course is organised by The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo. Application deadline is 2 May, 2017. The cour

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Published 29 April 2017 The Government of Sri Lanka is calling for applications for the Presidential Scholarships for Foreign Students for the academic year 2016/2017. Last date for submission of application is 8 May 2017. Government of Sri Lanka Presidential Scholarships programme for Foreign Students implemented by the Ministry of Higher Education and Highways has been in operation for six years

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Published 29 April 2017 Lund University is a member of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI). Scholars and representatives of the member universities have the opportunity to stay at the Director's residence in Delhi. The Centre is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It was established in 2001 with the objective to facilitate co

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Published 5 May 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on how American education and incarceration have become entangled, entitled: "Shades of the prison-house" in the Times Literary Supplement. After Donald Trump won the United States presidential election, stock prices increased for CoreCivic and the Geo Group, two of the largest private prison companies. As unpredictable as

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Published 4 May 2017 Full house May 3rd when more than 70 people came and listened to Jan-Inge Bengtsson, who talked about the art of afghan carpets at Lunds konsthall. The lecture was organised by SASNET in collaboration with Lunds konsthall and ABF. Jan-Inge Bengtsson, active in SAK (The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan), showed carpets for the audience and explained the history, work and meani

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Published 8 May 2017 A conflict simulation involving the current conflict and proxy war in Syria and Iraq, originally developed as a teaching resource for the MA in Middle Eastern Studies run by CMES, is being transformed into an interactive short simulation course that will eventually be available to schools and organizations in Sweden and beyond. It is envisaged that the course, currently develo

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Published 10 May 2017 SAARC International Conference on “Buddhist Cultural Trails: Journey Through Time & Space, of Merchants, Monks & Pilgrims, Reconciliation of the South Asian Region with the Exchange of Information” will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 25-27 August 2017. The Buddhist Cultural Trail conference will be the first in a series of Conferences and workshops planned on “Cultural Trails”

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Published 7 May 2017 Dr. Dag Erik Berg, Research Fellow from the Diversity & Inequality Research Group at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has published a new article entitled: "Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy" in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract: This article explain

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Published 4 May 2017 The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, Inc. (Cambridge, USA) seeks a Buddhist Studies Research Scholar to lead the development of an online repository of Buddhist texts and cultural heritage information. The Buddhist Studies Post-Doctoral Research Scholar will provide scholarly expertise in Buddhist Studies to advance the creation of the Buddhist Universal Digital Archive (BUDA

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Published 11 May 2017 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is currently seeking a C-MAP fellow specializing in Asian art, with a focus on Indian and South Asian art. Application deadline is June 1, 2017. In 2009, The Museum of Modern Art launched Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), a global research initiative. The program is intended to deepen the Museum’s range of expertise;

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Published 11 May 2017 Apply for the SUPRA Nordic scholarship before 1 June 2017. The SUPRA Nordic scholarship is one of the most important features of NIAS' Support Programme for Asian Studies. It is designed to make NIAS’ digital library and other resources accessible to PhD candidates and MA students in the Nordic countries. The scholarship covers inexpensive travel to and from Copenhagen and ac

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Published 11 May 2017 SASNET's One Month Position to prepare a research application at Lund University goes to PhD scholar Shveta Soam. Shveta Soam will apply for a collaborative research project entitled: "Comparative environmental and economic analysis of biomass waste utilization strategies for biofuel production in Sweden and India". For the third year, SASNET invited researchers at Lund Unive

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Published 13 May 2017 For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grant to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, for the fieldwork for his Master thesis. The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. The thesis has now been published. During his fieldwork in the Indian capital, Harju interviewed ten young middle-class femi

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Published 15 May 2017 On May 11, 2017 at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies organized a networking day focusing on Asia. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson attended the one-day event. The motive for the conference was to “finding everyone in Sweden focusing on Asia for a network event”. The focus

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Published 17 May 2017 Call for papers for the eighth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies - ACT 2017 will be held 18-19 August, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Last date of paper submission is 15 June 2017. ACT 2017, aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Computer Science, Control Engin

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Published 17 May 2017 The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme. The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017. The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is

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Published 17 May 2017 Did you know that SASNET has a Twitter account ? Follow and join discussions on hashtag #SASNET. Go to the Twitter account. 

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Published 29 May 2017 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 magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region o

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