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The Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is looking to fill the position of a Researcher (PhD or postdoctoral) working in the 'Media and Public Spheres' Research Cluster. This position should be filled by 15 January 2017. The position is offered within the framework of the DFG Priority Program "Proper Times of the Aesthetic. Time and Representation in Polychro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/researcher-field-media-and-public-spheres-wanted-gottingen - 2025-11-11

Dr. Rama Nath Sharma (Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii) will be presenting a 5 day workshop on Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī. This will take place between 12-16th November 2016 in the Tibetan Pavilion in Auroville, India. This is the 2nd year this workshop will be held and the organisers extend an invitation not only for Sanskrit scholars but also for other researchers in the field of Linguistics, C

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sanskrit-workshop-tibetan-pavilion-auroville - 2025-11-11

On 31 October 2016, SASNET director Anna Lindberg will retire from her position after nine years; and two months later - on 31 December - deputy director Lars Eklund will also retire after 16 years in SASNET service. The replacement of these key SASNET staff is currently in process and will soon be announced. Additionally, Lund University now announces two positions as Researchers to be based at S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-key-staff-retires-two-researcher-positions-announced - 2025-11-11

On the 13th of October SASNET and WTS, with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Mumbai, arranged a successful Media and Innovation Day at Bungalow 9 in Bandra West, Mumbai. Over 80 people (students, researchers, media entrepreneurs, and journalists) participated in the workshop. The day started with an introduction by Andreas Mattsson and Divya Rajagopal, the co-founders of the Sweden-

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/social-entrepreneurs-awarded-sasnet-media-and-innovation-day-mumbai - 2025-11-11

Jishnu J.R, Ph.D Scholar from the Department of Law at University of Kerala in India, recently travelled back to Kerala after a month in Lund. Jishnu is pursuing his Ph.D on "Copyright and trademark aspects of social media" at University of Kerala and was here as a guest-reseacher at the Department of Law and SASNET. Jishnu has not only a interest in property and cyber laws but a keen interest in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jishnu-jr-guest-researcher-lund-university - 2025-11-11

On Thursday 10 November 9.15-17.00, The Afrint research group and Development Geography in Lund warmly welcome you to the Development Research Day 2016, at Geocentrum I in Lund. The Development Research Day is an annual event at Lund University bringing together all fields working on development to share and discuss their research with each other, students and the public. This years theme is: "End

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/development-research-day-2016 - 2025-11-11

The 45th Annual Madison Conference on South Asia was held 20–23 October 2016. This year's theme was DECAY. The conference, sponsored by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year attracted over 750 scholars and specialists on South Asia, coming from countries all over the world and much of the United States. This year the Joseph W. Elder keynote lecture at the conf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-reports-45th-madison-south-asian-studies-conference - 2025-11-11

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”. Venue: Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Institut for Antropologi, Øster Farimagsgade 5, room 1.1.18.The evaluation committee consists of Profe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-thesis-sufi-muslims-lahore - 2025-11-11

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. The conference attracted more than 60 researchers, Swedish and European, but a large number of them also came from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. conference_programme.pdf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-conference-modernity-south-asia-successfully-completed - 2025-11-11

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 keynote speaker for the SASN

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-visited-salc-university-chicago - 2025-11-11

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 his government achieved so

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-and-book-launch-modi-and-politics-progress - 2025-11-11

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 European modernity, as well as the structure

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/delhi-workshop-towards-global-social-theory - 2025-11-11

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 will be considered an additional qualification.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-ludwig-maximilians-universitat-lmu-munich - 2025-11-11

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 programmes and research a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/scholarships-masters-programmes-lund-university - 2025-11-11

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 research and teaching at Lun

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-board-meeting-approved-organisational-changes - 2025-11-11

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 2016Stockholm University  Dr. Johanna Lundström G

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-council-grants-south-asia-related-projects - 2025-11-11

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 modern India. It argues for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/subjects-citizens-and-law-north-india - 2025-11-11

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 with terrorist groups is at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-seminar-talking-pakistani-taliban - 2025-11-11

Dr Dan Metcalfe is co-author to a Nature paper now out, based upon his work with the Global Ecosystem Monitoring Network. From observations across a network of forest plots in the Amazon basin, the study finds that tree keep growing but cut back on respiratory metabolism during severe drought.This remarkable result suggests that trees maintain their short-term competitive edge through stressful pe

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/drought-impact-forest-carbon-dynamics-and-fluxes-amazonia - 2025-11-11

VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten and Formas have selected Smart Built Environment as one out of five new Swedish strategic innovation projects. The government and industry will initially invest up to 200 million SEK in the program over three years.The investments will cover research, development and innovation in the fields of digital infrastructure, business-driven applications and integration of proce

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/smart-built-environment-new-strategic-innovation-area-sweden - 2025-11-11