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Wednesday 21 December 2016 was the last working day for Lars Eklund, after 16 years in SASNET service. Lars Eklund has been the deputy director for SASNET and has worked with the network since it was launched in January 2001. He was responsible for the construction and maintenance of the extensive SASNET Internet Gateway on Swedish and Scandinavian South Asian Studies, and the monthly newsletters.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lars-eklund-retiring-after-16-years - 2025-11-23

SASA, in collaboration with SASNET, announces a maximum of three travel grants for students that are planning for fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The grants will cover travel expenses for airline tickets for applicants to do fieldwork in a South Asian country for up to a maximum of 8000,- SEK. Students enrolled at Lund University who plan to do fieldwork in South Asia are eligible to apply. I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasa-announces-travel-grants-lund-university-students - 2025-11-23

The Asian Dynamics Initiative at University of Copenhagen announces its 9th annual international ADI conference to be held 26-28 June 2017. The 2017 annual ADI conference addresses the question of ‘the Asian century’ that is yet to be fully examined. We attend to the ways in which new connected histories, flows and connections both within, and beyond, territoriality are taking shape. What kind of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/copenhagen-adi-conference-2017 - 2025-11-23

Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi (Inida) is organising an International Conference on Gender, Activism and Politics from 2nd April to 4th April 2017 in Varanasi. While both India and Sweden acknowledge the need for enhancing women participation and empowerment; their immediate concerns and priorities have been diverse. In Sweden there is growing concern about the declining participation of wom

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/varanasi-conference-gender-activism-and-politics - 2025-11-23

The Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of qualified lecturers to teach the languages of South Asia, including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, should an opening arise. The pool will remain in place for one calendar year; screening of applications is ongoing and continues as needed. The nee

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asian-languages-lecturer-pool-berkeley - 2025-11-23

Asia in Focus is an English language journal on Asia by Early Career Researchers (including MA) and the geographical focus is Asia spanning from Central Asia to Oceania and excludes Australia and New Zealand. Asia in Focus is now in its second year of publication. The journal welcomes papers written by PhD and Masters who:Are studying or recently finished their Masters or PhD in the Social Science

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-issue-4-asia-focus - 2025-11-23

At MF two Ph.D. research fellowships are now available. The starting date for the fellowships is September 1st 2017. PhD research fellowships are temporary research engagements which shall lead to a completed degree of PhD. MF Norwegian School of Theology offers several PhD stipends, which are open-ended, including studies of religion and society in South and Southeast Asia.The positions are for t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-research-fellowships-mf-norwegian-school-theology - 2025-11-23

Call for History Internships at IIM-Ahmedabad, India The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has played a pioneering role in the field of business history in India and wishes to extend this legacy by engaging with a new generation of students and researchers. Interns are expected to assist history related research projects and also develop their own research ideas during the course of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/history-internship-iim-ahmedabad - 2025-11-23

An NEH Summer Institute "Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformation" will be held on June 12 to July 7, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Summer Institute, hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), is now calling for papers. This multidisciplinary NEH-supported summer institute will offer four weeks of context-rich and critical engagement with Islamic traditions, examining their origin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/neh-summer-institute-honolulu - 2025-11-23

IT University of the Punjab, based at the state of the art Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks faculty in its newly established Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Consideration begins immediately and open until filled. The Department aims to not only complement the IT focus of the university but also develop a strong faculty with dynamic teaching skills (especially

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professorship-it-university-punjab - 2025-11-23

The South Asian Studies Council (SASC) at the MacMillan Center invites applications for post-doctoral position at Yale University for AY 2017-2018. Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to modern and contemporary South Asia, in the humanities or social sciences. All applicants should have in-depth knowledge of at least one SA-related language and fluency in English; and mu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-fellowship-south-asian-studies-yale-university - 2025-11-23

University of Hong Kong invites applications for appointment as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Asian Urban Silk-Road in the Faculty of Social Sciences (as tenure home) and the Faculty of Arts, to commence from July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a three-year fixed-term basis, with the possibility of renewal and consideration for tenure before the expiry of a second three-year

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/tenure-track-assistant-professor-asian-urban-silk-road - 2025-11-23

SASNET's new researcher Maria Tonini talks about her research in "Sydasien". Read the article (in Swedish). Read Maria Tonini's dissertation "The Ambiguities of Recognition Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India" as pdf. Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region of South Asia. Sydasien has existed on paper since 1977. I

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/maria-tonini-talks-about-her-research-sydasien - 2025-11-23

On Thursday 15 February 2017, 16.15-18.00, Professor Sten Widmalm will hold a seminar entitled: "Political Tolerance in India, Pakistan and Uganda" at University of Oslo. Venue: Blindern, PA Munchs hus seminar room 9 in Oslo. What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? Sten Widmalm presents the main findings from his book Political Tolerance in the G

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-seminar-political-tolerance - 2025-11-23

On Friday 10 February 2017, 10.15-12.00 Adjunct Professor Paul Rollier will hold a seminar entitled: "Religious Belonging in Pakistan: Ritual, language, and the production of ‘minorities’" at University of Oslo. The seminar is organised by the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies. Venue: Eilert Sundts hus, aud. 6 in Oslo. Sectarian attacks, Islamist militancy and the marginalization of Pakis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-seminar-religious-belonging-pakistan - 2025-11-23

On Wednesday 1 February 2017, 16.15-18.00 Professor Caleb Simmons will hold a lecture entitled: “Rascally Infidels:” Political-religious transgression in international correspondences of Ṭipū Sultān" at University of Oslo. Venue: P.A. Munchs hus: Seminar room 6 in Oslo. In his talk, he will discuss “religious transgression” in the political theology of Ṭipū Sultān, a Muslim ruler in South India du

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-lecture-political-religious-transgression - 2025-11-23

South and Southeast Asian Association for Culture and Religion (SSEASR) is organizing the 7th SSEASR Conference "ASEAN Region by the end of 21st Century: A Dialogue with Past or Present?"at the Vietnam Buddhist University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 9-12 July, 2017. Modern South and Southeast Asia is an idea as much as it is a place in time and space. It is an idea that is constituted by many

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/7th-sseasr-conference-ho-chi-minh-city - 2025-11-23

A workshop entitled "Towards Global Social Theory? Possibilities and Tensions" will be held at Linnaus University in New Delhi, India on 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 of current knowledge systems in marginalising theory fr

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-global-social-theory-delhi - 2025-11-23

On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 10.00 an international multidisciplinary conference entitled ”South Asia: Past, Present and Future" will be held at the Department of History, Presidency University Kolkata in India. Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium. Home to one quarter of the world’s population, one of the most ancient civilizations, with religious, cultural and linguistic diversity unmatched by any other

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/kolkata-conference-south-asia - 2025-11-23

The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) with the theme: “Consuming Asia” on September 22-23, 2017 in Geneva, USA. NYCAS is a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies.The NYCAS 2017 program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on all aspects of Asian and Asian-Am

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nycas-annual-conference - 2025-11-23