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Copenhagen thesis on Sufi Muslims in Lahore

Published 1 November 2016 On Friday 4 November 2016, at 14.00, Ida Sofie Matzen from the Institute of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen defends her PhD dissertation project entitled ”Extremists of Love: Cosmological Activism among Sufi Muslims in Contemporary Lahore, Pakistan”. Ida Sofie Matzen Photo: universitetsavisen.dk Venue: Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Institut for Antropologi, Øste

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-thesis-sufi-muslims-lahore - 2025-07-09

SASNET Conference on Modernity in South Asia successfully completed

Published 2 November 2016 Anna Lindberg and Nishi Mitra vom Berg, Photo: Lars Eklund On 20-22 September 2016, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) successfully organized a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future of Everyday Life in South Asia” at Lund University. Keynote session Photo: J.R. Jishnu The conference attracted more than 60 researchers, Swedish and Europe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-modernity-south-asia-successfully-completed - 2025-07-09

Lars Eklund visited SALC at University of Chicago

Published 2 November 2016 After attending the 45th South Asian Studies conference at Madison, Wisconsin, 21-23 October 2016, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund did not return immediately to Sweden. Instead he travelled to the nearby metropolitan city of Chicago in order to visit the University of Chicago on invitation from Professor Dipesh Chakraborty who recently visited Lund University as the ke

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-visited-salc-university-chicago - 2025-07-09

Seminar and Book Launch: Modi and the Politics of Progress

Published 2 November 2016 The Network for Asien studies (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo organises a seminar and book launch on 3 November 15.30-17.00. In this seminar, the authors and editors of five recently published books on India draw on their work from the perspective of caste, democracy, social movements, industrialisation and nationalism, to answer the questions: what have Modi and h

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-and-book-launch-modi-and-politics-progress - 2025-07-09

Delhi Workshop: "Towards Global Social Theory?"

Published 3 November 2016 Photo: Wikipedia Henrik Chetan Aspengren from Linnaeus University with assistance by the Nordic Centre in India organises a workshop entitled "Towards Global Social Theory? Possibilities and Tensions" in Delhi 18-20 April 2017. This workshop is addressing current debates regarding the dominance of Northern thought in social theory. The role of modern European Empire and E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/delhi-workshop-towards-global-social-theory - 2025-07-09

Position available at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich

Published 3 November 2016 Photo: Muenchen.de The Faculty for the Study of Culture at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) of Indology (Chair) commencing on 1st April 2019. Applicants should be able to teach the full range of classical Indology. The focus of their research should be on Indian Buddhism; experience with Indic manuscripts wi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-lmu-munich - 2025-07-09

Scholarships for Master’s programmes at Lund University

Published 7 November 2016 Lund University is celebrating 350 years of education and research with €350,000 in scholarships! Win a scholarship for your Master’s programme by showing that you share Lund University's vision to understand, explain and improve the world and the human condition. How to apply for the scholarship: First register and fill out your personal information.Explore the different

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/scholarships-masters-programmes-lund-university - 2025-07-09

SASNET board meeting approved organisational changes

Published 7 November 2016 On Monday 10 October 2016, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) held its final board meeting as an autonomous unit of Lund University. On 1 January 2017, an organizational change takes place, and SASNET will merge with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and become a subdivision of CMES. The focus of SASNET henceforth will be on South Asia related re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-board-meeting-approved-organisational-changes - 2025-07-09

Research Council grants to South Asia related projects

Published 24 November 2016 Photo: Vetenskapsrådet In late October 2016, the Swedish Research Council decided upon project grants within Humanities. Two projects given a grant relates to South Asian studies, from Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Within Medicine, one project grant from Uppsala University was given a grant relate to South Asian studies. List of South Asia related projects

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-council-grants-south-asia-related-projects - 2025-07-09

Subjects, Citizens and Law in North India

Published 9 November 2016 Subjects, Citizens and Law. Colonial and independent India, edited by Professor Gunnel Cederlöf, Linnaeus University, Växjö; and Professor Sanjukta Das Gupta, Sapienza University of Rome. Routledge India 2017. This volume investigates how, where and when subjects and citizens come into being, assert themselves and exercise subjecthood or citizenship in the formation of mo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/subjects-citizens-and-law-north-india - 2025-07-09

Copenhagen seminar on Talking with the Pakistani Taliban

Published 1 November 2016 Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) held an Asia Dynamics lecture at University of Copenhagen on Friday 11 November 2016, 10.00-12.00. She spoke about ”Talking with the Pakistani Taliban”. Venue: Faculty of Humanities, Room 10-4-05, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Copenhagen.The question of whether governments should engage with talks wi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-seminar-talking-pakistani-taliban - 2025-07-09

Relationship between management and employees in new textbook about working life

Published 16 June 2017 Anders Kjellberg has written a chapter on unions, employers and industrial relations ("Fack, arbetsgivare och industrial relations") in the recently published new edition of the textbook Arbetslivet (Working life), where he writes about how many young people have left unions and about class-based unions in the Nordic countries. Editors: Mattias Bengtsson & Tomas Berglund. Le

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/relationship-between-management-and-employees-new-textbook-about-working-life - 2025-07-09

Pedagogy daring to look beyond a set idea

Published 28 June 2017 Mattias Nilsson Sjöberg has just published "To (dare) meet the unexpected - The story of the unruly chair", an essay in Swedish ”Att (våga) möta det oväntade – Historien om den bångstyriga stolen”, in the Norwegian journal on educational studies Norsk pedagogisk tidskrift. The essay seeks to problematise an instrumental pedagogy that has followed todays increasing number of

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/pedagogy-daring-look-beyond-set-idea - 2025-07-09

Dark gazes and meeting distress in youth homes

Published 9 August 2017 David Wästerfors and Malin Åkerström have each written a chapter concerning youth welfare in the book "Den motspänstiga akademikern" (The Opposing Academic), a volume in honor of Professor Ingrid Sahlin at the School of Social Sciences in Lund. The chapters are Eyes for Violence (David Wästerfors) and Mötesstrider och dokumentkamp i ungdomsvården (Meeting Struggles and Docu

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/dark-gazes-and-meeting-distress-youth-homes - 2025-07-09

Vietnam continues to haunt American collective memory

Published 29 August 2017 Together with Ron Eyerman and Todd Madigan, sociologist Magnus Ring has published the article “Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War” in the Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 54. More information and a link for downloading the article can be found here at the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia. Abstract:Part of a wider project on how the Vietna

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/vietnam-continues-haunt-american-collective-memory - 2025-07-09

Boys find school increasingly pointless

Published 31 August 2017 Social Anthropologist Nina Gren has published the article 'Unruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank’ in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies Nidaba. More information, and a link for downloading the article at journals.lub.lu.se Abstract:Almost 70 years after the Palestinian displacement, many Palestinian refugee

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/boys-find-school-increasingly-pointless - 2025-07-09

Comparing prostitution policies with new typology

Published 10 October 2017 Social anthropologist Petra Ostergren has developed a new typology for assessing, evaluating and comparing prostitution policies. This new typology is presented and discussed in 'From Zero-Tolerance to Full Integration: Rethinking Prostitution Policies', a working paper published within the frames of the interdisciplinary research project Demand-side Measures Against Traf

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/comparing-prostitution-policies-new-typology - 2025-07-09

Lotta Granbom has defended her thesis

Published 13 October 2017 Lotta Granbom defended her doctoral dissertation in Social Anthropology ”The Second Wave: The Urak Lawoi after the Tsunami in Thailand” today at 10 o'clock in Kulturens Hörsal, Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Peter Ian Crawford of the School of Culture and Society at Århus University and the chairperson at the defence was Professor Christer Lindberg from the Dep

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/lotta-granbom-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-09

Maria Gómez has defended her thesis

Published 25 October 2017 Maria Gómez defended her doctoral dissertation in Educational studies ”Teachers' Assessment and gradings Practices in upper secondary Science Classrooms in Sweden. The Teachers' and Students' Perspectives” today at 10 o'clock in Eden's auditorium in Lund. The external reviewer was Professor Per Andersson, at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/maria-gomez-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-07-09

Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban East Asia awarded 5 million

Published 2 November 2017 A grant of nearly 5 million SEK from Riksbankens jubileumsfond has been awarded to Doctor in Sociology Lisa Eklund, together with Kristina Göransson at the School of Social Work, for the project Parenting strategies around children’s education in urban China, Singapore and South Korea: A comparative ethnographic study. Abstract:This comparative ethnographic project addres

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/parenting-strategies-around-childrens-education-urban-east-asia-awarded-5-million - 2025-07-09