By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 5 May 2022 Photo: David Peterson In a new article, published in The Conversation, SASNET affiliated researcher Andreas Johansson writes about the recent protests in Sri Lanka. -The article tries to analyse the possible implications of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka with a focus on the recent ethnic ten

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-about-protests-sri-lanka - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 10 November 2022 SASNET invites Lund University PhD students to apply for two travel grants. The deadline is the 31st of January 2023. Each grant amounts to a maximum value of 25 000 SEK (direct costs) and shall be used to cover travel expenses such as flight tickets, accommodation, and visa fees. Eligibility crit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-travel-grants-lund-university-phd-students - 2025-07-05

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 15 June 2022 Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of researc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2025-07-05

By ulrika [dot] liard_wedin [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Liard Wedin) - published 22 June 2022 The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a new round of planning grants. Examples of such applications include the EU fram

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/planning-grants-submission-major-research-application - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 20 September 2022 Karl Gustafsson, Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Catarina Kinnvall at the seminar. The seminar took place on the 14 September in collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-seminar-semester-how-will-russias-invasion-ukraine-affect-geopolitics-asia - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 7 October 2022 Renewable energy, interviews with former Maoist women combatants, and urban development in Mumbai. SASNET’s Annual Symposium offered a full day of presentations of ongoing research, ranging from everyday transactions at New Delhi’s open markets to the issue of shrinking spaces for civil society orga

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-symposium-2022 - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 Professor Ruwanpura presenting at the panel debate. Photo. Under the heading "What's happening in Sri Lanka", SASNET invited two researchers from the University of Gothenburg; Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Professor at Human Geography, and Camilla Orjuela, Professor at the School of Global Studies, to take

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/they-gave-their-perspectives-what-happening-sri-lanka - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 November 2022 Professor Kinnvall receives the SASNET planning grant for her project idea on "Dismantling Democracy: Insecurity, Emotions and Authoritarian Populism". She describes how her project intend to develop a novel approach to the study of insecurity and emotions by highlighting the co-production of insec

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/catarina-kinnvall-receives-sasnets-planning-grant - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 10 November 2022 Photo: Annika Persson Last week, Manisha Anantharaman, PhD and Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California, gave a lecture at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. The lecture was done at the beginning of Professor Anantharaman

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/manisha-anantharaman-circular-economy - 2025-07-05

Published 29 November 2022 Shruti Kapila presenting at a roundtable in Lund. Photo. Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Shruti Kapila, Professor of Indian History and Global Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. A roundtable on her recently published book, "Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age", was organised in collaboration with the Department of Politi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-shruti-kapila - 2025-07-05

By Sandra Jakobsson - published 30 November 2022 Earlier this month, SASNET Director Ted Svensson visited Bangladesh where he met colleagues to discuss future joint initiatives. In the meetings, Svensson also discussed the possibility of deepening and expanding on existing ties between Lund University and partner institutions in the country. One of these meetings took place at the University of Li

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/directors-visit-bangladesh - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 21 December 2022 A Hindu temple. Photo. SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-07-05

Published 2 May 2016 More than 50 Nordic researchers and academics from 20 universities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland participated in the Networking Day on South Asian Studies, that SASNET organized in Lund on Monday 25 April 2016. They are all working on South Asia-related issues, and were invited to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research. The meeting addressed th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-07-05

Published 2 May 2016 Dr. Taberez Ahmed Neyazi has co-authored an article entitled “Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India” with Anup Kumar and Holli A. Semetko. The article is published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Neyazi, who is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-piece-indian-election-studies - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 18 January 2023 Soumi Banerjee explains how her PhD research focus changed during the corona-pandemic. Soumi Banjeree, 28, is currently doing a PhD at Lund University’s School of Social Work and occupied the coordinator position at SASNET during the autumn. Alongside organising and making sure panellists make thei

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/soumi-banerjee-shrinking-civic-spaces-india-ngos-are-attempting-shift-away-activism - 2025-07-05

Published 3 May 2016 Professor Meera Chakravorty from the Dept. of Cultural Studies at Jain University, Bangalore, India, visited Sweden in the first week of April 2016. Meera Chakravorty gave two interesting lectures. The main function was at Sigtunastiftelsen (the Sigtuna Foundation) in the small town of Sigtuna, outside Stockholm. Here, she was invited to to speak on ”Rabindranath Tagore: The P

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/bangalore-professor-toured-lund-university-and-sigtuna - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 19 January 2023 The Partition Museum in Amritsar, India. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. In the article, which was published in the journal Peacebuilding in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-07-05

Published 15 May 2016 Together with Department of Political Science we are are organizing a talk with Assistant Professor Nitasha Kaul from the University of Westminister, UK on Thursday, May 19 at 3.15-5.00 pm in the large conference room (room 367) at the Political Science Department. Dr. Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet. She is currently an Assistant Professor i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetpolitical-science-seminar-neoliberal-nationalism-india - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 1 February 2023 Are you a student enrolled in the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University? Then you are eligible to apply for our grant to conduct fieldworkd in South Asia. Applicants for this grant must be students within the Bachelor course in journalism at t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students - 2025-07-05

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 February 2023 Gateway of India, Mumbai. Are you planning to write your thesis topic related to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already defended your thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The Award has been awarded since 2022 an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-our-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20222023 - 2025-07-05