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Call for paper for dissertation workshop on ethnography of connections to be held 20th November 2017 at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world. As scholarly attention increasingly shifts to themes of commodification, s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-dissertation-workshop-ethnography-connections - 2025-10-03

SASNET and Sydasien form an exciting collaboration that will help disseminate news and research about South Asia to a broader audience. The magazine Sydasien is an important channel for spreading news and analyses about South Asia in the Swedish language. Sydasien was founded in 1977. First appearing in print, Sydasien transitioned into an online-only format in 2011 (www.sydasien.se).  Through a n

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-sydasien-form-exciting-collaboration - 2025-10-03

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo wrote an article for the Times Literary Supplement entitled "Permanent crisis of legitimacy". Afghanistan is an ethnicity with a state. That is the bottom line of Niamatullah Ibrahimi’s book, which maps the political relationships between the Pashtun-dominated nation and the Hazaras, Afghanistan’s third largest ethnic group (after the Tajiks), and a deeply marginalize

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-published-times-literary-supplement - 2025-10-03

The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce its second Annual Conference on South Asia, to be held from Thursday 26 April to Friday 27 April 2018 at Dublin City University, Ireland. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and practitioners involved wit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-ireland-india-institute-conference - 2025-10-03

The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges and the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Asian American studies, to begin July 1, 2018. The Department is seeking a scholar who approaches history from an interdisciplinary perspective and who has res

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-asian-american-studies - 2025-10-03

The History Department at Denison University invites applications for a one-year visiting position in the history of the Middle East or South Asia to begin in Fall 2018. Teaching responsibilities in a 3/3 load include a two-semester introductory survey sequence in the Middle East or South Asia and upper level seminars in the candidate’s areas of expertise. Ability to teach courses in the pre-moder

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-visiting-assistant-professor-history-0 - 2025-10-03

On Monday 30 October 13.15, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler held a lecture entitled: "Jewish identity and literature in contemporary India" at LUX. The lecture was organised by SASNET and the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University. The focus of the lecture were three Indo-Jewish authors, two in English and one in Hindi: Nissim Ezechiel, Esther David and Sheila Rohekar. While E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-lecture-jewish-identity-and-literature-contemporary-india - 2025-10-03

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University seeks to appoint a full-time, tenured faculty member in a field in the Asian Humanities beginning in Fall, 2018. The Department welcomes candidates who work across multiple genres and media, from classical to contemporary periods, and in any Asian languages. They are particularly interested in a scholar and teacher who combi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-associate-or-full-professor-asian-humanities - 2025-10-03

On Tuesday 21 November Otso Harju, PhD student in Gender studies at the University of Helsinki, held a lecture on "Power, learning and the politics of friendship in intercultural fieldwork" at Asian Studies. In 2016 Otso Harju conducted a fieldwork for his Master thesis with the help of SASA travel grant. Feminist fieldwork – power, learning and the politics of friendship in intercultural fieldwor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-power-learning-and-politics-friendship-intercultural-fieldwork - 2025-10-03

SASNET researcher Maria Tonini together with Lisa Eklund, Catarina Kinnvall and Helle Rydström at Lund University will start a Research Project entitled "Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women Employees in Nordic Companies Outsourced to Asia". The project will be funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) for three years. Precariousness at Work: Workplace Violence against Women

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/research-project-precariousness-work-funded-swedish-research-council - 2025-10-03

Celia Boltes, journalist student at Lund University, received SASA travel grant in the spring of 2017. In September 2017 she travelled to Nepal for a field work. Celia has now returned to Lund and has written a report. Celia Boltes' report:During the spring of 2017 I was happy to achieve the South Asian Student Association's travel grant. I had been traveling in Asia many times before, and I was a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/journalist-student-celia-boltes-conducted-field-work-nepal - 2025-10-03

On September 22-24, SASNET researcher Maria Tonini joined the 2017 EASAS Doctoral Workshop as a senior scholar. The workshop took place in the breathtaking island of Procida, off the Gulf of Naples, Italy. At the EASAS workshop, 15 doctoral students from EASAS partner universities had the opportunity to present a text from their dissertation and receive in-depth feedback from senior scholars and p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-collaboration-easas-doctoral-workshop - 2025-10-03

In October the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson visited New Delhi. During this visit he discussed possibilities for collaborations between different institutions in India and Lund University. Andreas together with the Nordic Center of India (NC) met with professor A K Ramakrishnan at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and discussed the possibility of creating a summer course for Nordic stu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-visited-new-delhi - 2025-10-03

Applicant should be a student with an international focus on their ongoing education and it is good if the applicant has a particular interest in South Asia. The applicant should have very good knowledge in english (spoken and written), knowledge in swedish is no requirement. Job assignmentsRun the student organization South Asian Students Association (SASA). The work involves planning seminars or

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-amanuens-sasnet - 2025-10-03

The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) at Ashoka Trust for Research and the Environment (ATREE) invites applications for a Department of Science and Technology supported project on `Adapting to and mitigating ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate change: Training and capacity building’. The Coordinator will be based in Bangalore and will be responsible for coordinating and o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-coordinator-atree-bangalore - 2025-10-03

The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia, with the narrower field of expertise open. The successful applicant will be qualified to teach advanced (3rd- and 4th-year) Persian language courses, and will be expected to teach gra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-assistant-professor-persianate-islamic-cultures - 2025-10-03

A population projection dataset of Africa was generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. The publication of this dataset also led to the accreditation of DataGURU as a Nature data repository. A population projection dataset of African population spanning over the rest of this century has been generated by Niklas Boke-Olén and Veiko Lehsten. It is the first of its kind as it integrates both s

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/niklas-boke-olens-dataset-projected-population-density-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-10-03

A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detailed spatio-temporal desc

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/historical-spatio-temporal-dataset-1813-1914-published-nature-scientific-data - 2025-10-03

Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" organised by the Arctic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2025-10-03

EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing on biodiversity and climate. Among other things, the report debunks the myth of bioenergy's climat

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2025-10-03