Published 12 December 2024 Photo: Malmö City Library (Rida Khan and Fredrik Elg) SASNET in collaboration with Malmö Public Libraries and Swedish PEN hosted a panel discussion on the public protests and political unrest in contemporary Bangladesh. What happens when a country faces major changes? Following a popular uprising that forced Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the co

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/protests-and-prospects-understanding-bangladeshs-political-unrest - 2025-05-09

Published 8 January 2025 Lund University researchers Riya Raphael and Sanjib Saha have each been awarded the 2024 SASNET Grant for Writing a Research Application. The grant, which is awarded annually and supports one month of full-time work, is designed to help Lund University researchers prepare strong applications for future funding and contribute to impactful studies with a focus on the South A

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Published 10 January 2025 The SASNET South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students and Travel Grant for Journalism Students are now open for applications. These grants support fieldwork and research in South Asia. The South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students The South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students is a grant for Lund University doctoral students, who plan to travel during 2025-2026.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-now-sasnet-travel-grants-spring-2025 - 2025-05-09

Published 16 January 2025 During the spring semester of 2025, SASNET will host a variety of events, focusing on the region of South Asia. We welcome you to join our lectures, panels, and seminars! 23 January. SASNET Public Lecture with Jagannath Panda: "Power Plays in a Multipolar World: Mapping India’s Global Game"A public lecture with Jagannath Panda (Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian

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Published 24 January 2025 Jagannath Panda (Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs) visited SASNET for a talk on India’s strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. Yesterday, January 23, Jagannath Panda delivered a public SASNET Lecture at the Eden Auditorium, focusing on India's foreign policy and strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. The event was co-organized with the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/power-plays-multipolar-world-mapping-indias-global-game - 2025-05-09

Published 9 April 2025 SASNET hosted a panel discussion exploring the current state of women’s rights across South Asia. On 20 March, SASNET in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund organized a panel discussion about key challenges, recent developments, and the future of gender equality across the South Asia region. The panel discussion included topics such as legal and pol

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-panel-discussion-womens-rights-south-asia - 2025-05-09

Published 8 May 2025 Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), SASNET hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 A conference on ‘Women Activism and Politics in Sweden and India’ will be held on 20 – 21 June 2016 at Karlstad University. It is organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, India, as a part of a series of conferences to be held in Sweden and India. The

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/karlstad-conference-women-activism-and-politics-sweden-and-india - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 On 22-23 June 2016, Invest in Skåne and Medicon Village – connected to Lund University – organize for the first time a summit entitled The Bridge. The aim of the summit is to enable and drive dialogue, cooperation and research within Life and Materials Science, and by these means help solve some of today’s biggest challenges in areas like energy, health, environment, water a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-annual-bridge-summit-lund-find-solutions-major-challenges - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 The fifth annual Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM) Workshop will be held from 24–25 June 2015 in Göttingen, Germany. The theme of the workshop is ”Transformations of ‘the Political’” and the themes discussed will be: - State and Governance; - Politics of knowledge production, - Political performance, - Development and Dissent; - Labouring Lives and the Politics of Labo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fifth-young-south-asia-scholars-meet-workshop-be-held-gottingen - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 The Department of Culture, Politics and Society at University of Turin, Italy, holds its second edition of the Summer School on “Politics, Development and Social Change in Contemporary India” from 27 June – 1 July 2016. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the School provides students with an opportunity to analyze key social, political and economic issues of contemporary

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/june-2016-july-2016-turin-summer-school-social-change-contemporary-india - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 On 4–8 July 2016, the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art will take place in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Conference contributions should draw on current and unpublished research relating to the archaeology and art history of South Asia from all periods. Topics from neighboring regions will also be considered if they throw light on South Asian archaeology or art

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/23rd-conference-european-association-south-asia-archaeology-and-art-announced - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) holds its next Biennial Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra on 5 – 7 July 2016. The South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA) – the organisation behind the excellent South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies – actively participates in the Canberra conference with special panels; and Profes

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/craig-jeffrey-keynote-speaker-asaa-conference-canberra - 2025-05-09

Published 13 June 2016 A Call for papers has been announced for a panel on ”Economic Transformation and Urbanisation: The future of pluriactive small farmers and rural workers in South Asia?” to be held at the International Sociological Association (ISA) Third Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, 10 – 14 July 2016. The panel will be chaired by Prof. Staffan Lindberg, Lund University, and Prof. S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-economic-transformation-and-urbanisation-india - 2025-05-09

Publicerad 24 juni 2014 Guest researcher Giulia Garofalo Geymonat is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University. Her recent publication Vendere e comprare sesso. Piacere, lavoro, prevaricazione (Selling and Buying Sex. Pleasure, Work, Abuse of Power), Il Mulino, Bologna 2014, reflects her knowledge of the differences among European countries as

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Publicerad 7 augusti 2014 Nu finns äntligen vänboken till Diana Mulinari tillgänglig! Den innehåller en mängd spännande feministiska och postkoloniala texter av författare som Maud Eduards, Chandra Mohanty, Paulina de los Reyes, Tiina Rosenberg och många fler. Kritiska gemenskaper - att skriva postkolonial vetenskap är titeln på den vänbok som tillägnats professor Diana Mulinari i samband med henn

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/vanbok-till-professor-diana-mulinari - 2025-05-09

Publicerad 7 augusti 2014 Philomena Essed är professor i kritiska ras-, genus- och ledarskapsstudier vid Antioch University, USA. Hon disputerade vid universitetet i Amsterdam och är känd för att ha introducerat begrepp som "vardagsrasism" och "könad rasism" (gendered racism) i Nederländerna. Hon är också känd för att ha lanserat begreppet klonade kulturer (Cloning cultures) som ett sätt att fånga

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Publicerad 16 september 2014 Att bryta innanförskapet är en ansats att kritiskt granska och expandera vad jämställdhet och mångfald är och skulle kunna vara inom akademin. Forskare inom genusvetenskap, sociologi, socialt arbete och rättsociologi undersöker här kopplingar mellan kön, etnicitet, sexualitet, klass och makt, gränser och villkor för närvaro samt hur olika grupper av andställda erfar, n

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/stort-intresse-att-bryta-innanforskapet - 2025-05-09

Publicerad 19 september 2014 Nela Porobic Isakovic is a former Gender Based Violence Programme Officer for UN Population Fund and has worked extensively with women activists in peace building processes. She is currently working with Syrian and Bosnian activists as project coordinator for WILPS: Women organizing for change in Syria and Bosnia. On the 15th of September at the Department of Gender St

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/open-lecture-women-war-and-peacebuilding - 2025-05-09

Publicerad 10 november 2014 Öresundsnätverket för könshistorisk forskning samlar genushistoriskt intresserade forskare från olika discipliner med syfte att utveckla och stärka genushistoriens ställning på båda sidor Öresund. Sedan 2010 har Öresundsnätverket för könshistorisk forskning träffats en gång per termin, i Köpenhamn, Lund eller Malmö. Mötet äger alltid rum en fredageftermiddag, i Sverige

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/oresundsnatverket-konshistorisk-forskning - 2025-05-09