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Call for Papers for LUMS Annual Conference on Courts and Politics in Pakistan to be held on 14-15 March 2018. The conference is jointly organized by the Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) and the Shaikh Ahmed Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL). The conference will focus on the role of higher courts in dealing with cases concerning the Constitution, making and breaki

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-courts-and-politics-pakistan - 2025-10-01

On Wednesday 8 November Amrita Ghosh held a seminar entitled: "Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan" at the Department of Gender Studies. The seminar was organized by the Department of Gender Studies and SASNET. Her seminar focused on a Partition film titled, Silent Waters (2003) and argued that it subverts patriarchal religio-nationalism and re-envisions th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-seminar-womens-agency-post-partition-pakistan - 2025-10-01

On Thursday 23 November SASA representative Phu Doma Lama Ph.D student from the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, held a talk entitled: “Exploring the consequences of adaptation to changes: The case of mobility and gender in Maldives” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The event was organized by SASA. Abstract her talk: Communities in Maldives have been adapting to complex ch

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/important-talk-mobility-and-gender-maldives - 2025-10-01

The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in South Asian, Southeast Asian or Chinese history, beginning Fall semester 2018. The rank will be Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor depending on qualifications. Candidates should have or be close to completing the Ph.D. Teaching experience is required. Teaching load is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/one-year-visiting-position-available-south-asian-history - 2025-10-01

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, invites applications for its Conference "India @ 70 Memories and Histories" to be held 3-4 January 2018. India celebrated the 70th year of its Independence on 15th August 2017. Celebratory national histories, in their enthusiasm to commemorate the giant strides made by the Indian nation in the last seven decades, have tended to mar

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-memories-and-histories - 2025-10-01

On Saturday 9 December 2017, 14-17 Kino screened the movie 'Parched' followed by a conversation with Maria Tonini and Sarah Bodelson. Almost 200 people showed up to watch the movie! The event was organized by SASNET/SASA in collaboration with Kino, Swallows India Bangladesh and ABC. ‘PARCHED’ is a story about women set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Rajasthan, India. The film tells the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-movie-screening-and-talk-kino - 2025-10-01

In June 2018 Leiden University will host a two day conference - Modalities of Displacement - that will discuss 'displacement' in its multiple vectors and possibilities. The conference is jointly organized by the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), the Anthropology Department, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands, on June 7-8, 2018. Th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-modalities-displacement-south-asia - 2025-10-01

Brill Academic Publishing, the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Leiden University invite submissions from scholars in area studies, social sciences, humanities, law, computer sciences, and from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to the 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia (DIAS) conference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 29 May 2018. The goal of the conference w

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-digital-asia-conference - 2025-10-01

Ambedkar University calls for papers for conference on "Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities" to be held 25-26 October 2018 in New Delhi, India. Northeast India, located on India's periphery, is a region whose socio-cultural world exhibits more similarities with Southeast Asia region than with that of South Asia. Such perceptive characterisation of the Northeast region, howev

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-northeast-india-and-southeast-asia - 2025-10-01

On Thursday 18 January 16.15 Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg, will hold a talk entitled: “Universities as Workplace: Gender Discrimination and Work-Life Balance.” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! Prof Nishi Mitra vom Berg from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai will speak on the is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-gender-discriminations-universities-india-brazil-and-south-africa - 2025-10-01

During November 2017, the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, traveled to Colombo to look into the possibility of establishing a new SASNET study center in South Asia. He met with several research institutions and discussed possibilities for collaborations. All of the institutions that Andreas met with expressed a wish to collaborate with SASNET. In the end a very fruitful discussion with the E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-american-institute-sri-lankan-studies-sign-agreement - 2025-10-01

The Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi, India encourages visiting scholars to apply for their visiting fellowships program. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, met with the director of West Asian (Middle Eastern) Centre at IDSA, Meena Roy Singh (picture), during his visit in October 2017 in order to discuss further collaborations between SASNET and IDSA. The Visi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-visiting-fellows-institute-defence-studies-and-analyses-new-delhi - 2025-10-01

Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies is an open access, online, peer-reviewed Nordic yearbook devoted to South Asian Studies published by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University. Chakra invites submissions of manuscript articles and reviews to be published in late 2018 (Volume V). (http://www.sasnet.lu.se/research/chakra-a-nordic-journal-of-south-asian…). Cha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-nordic-journal-south-asian-studies-call-articles-and-reviews - 2025-10-01

2017 was a very productive and successful year for us at SASNET. Our researchers and staff published books, peer-reviewed articles and made over 40 public appearances. Our many followers on social media were continuously kept updated on research and other activities. During 2018 SASNET will continue to grow as Sweden's leading center for South Asian Studies. Research During 2017 SASNET has been en

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/2017-productive-year-sasnet - 2025-10-01

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has received a grant from Magnus Bergvall's Foundation for his research on Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the United States and Sweden. The grant is in the amount of 30,000 SEK and is to be used for field research in the Afghan community in New York. The project titel is "Restricting, Admitting, and Deporting Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Sweden and the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/admir-skodo-received-research-grant - 2025-10-01

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in The Conversation entitled "Scandinavia takes plenty of people from Trump's shithole countries". The major South Asian sending countries, Skodo points out, are Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Read the article here.  https://theconversation.com/scandinavia-takes-plenty-of-people-from-trumps-shithole-countries-90062

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-article-conversation - 2025-10-01

In order to further stimulate research on South Asia at Lund University SASNET invites applications for research grants on an ongoing basis. SASNET will offer three types of grants: Initiation Grants (up to one month) will support researchers who are writing an application for a big grant.Research Collaboration Grants will support researchers who wish to initiate pilot research projects that invol

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-sasnet-research-grants - 2025-10-01

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University are launching a collaboration focusing on India and South Asia. The long-term collaboration will include both research and analysis and aims at building a strong research environment of international quality. Asia is becoming an increasingly important economic and political a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/india-and-south-asia-focus-new-collaboration-between-swedish-institute-international-affairs-and - 2025-10-01

On Wednesday 21 Februari 15,15 Dr. Henrik Chetan Aspengren, will hold a talk entitled: “’Is India rising? Reflections on Indian foreign policy and its limitations'" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! In this lecture I will give a broad historic overview of India’s foreign policy, paying at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-indias-foreign-policy - 2025-10-01

SASNET affiliated researcher Maria Tonini have published an article in the Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies entitled "Circumscribed Recognition: creating a space for young queer people in Delhi". The Routledge Handbook of Queer Development Studies  is edited by Corinne L. Mason and it is described as an essential guide for scholars, upper level students, practitioners and anyone wit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-published-maria-tonini - 2025-10-01