Lunds universitet tar ett viktigt steg för att stärka forskningen inom totalförsvar och beredskap genom etableringen av LUPREP vid Campus Helsingborg. – Det här får inte bli ett enkelspårigt centrum där alla tycker lika. Vi ska vara en plats för kritisk dialog, säger Johan Bergström, som tillträder som föreståndare den 1 augusti. LUPREP (Lunds University Centre of Preparedness and Resilience) har

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Från ett av evenemangen som handlade om den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Campus Helsingborgs karriärprogram för internationella studenter lanserades våren 2025 och innehöll en rad evenemang särskilt utformade för att stärka studenternas möjligheter på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Karriärprogrammet syftar både till att ge konkreta verktyg för att navigera arbetslivet i Sverige och till att skapa nätver

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Läckta dokument från en påverkansaktör knuten till Kreml avslöjar att den uppmärksammade ryska desinformationskampanjen Doppelgänger bara är en liten del av ett mycket större informationskrig. Bakom står ett växande nätverk av PR-byråer, influencers och kampanjmakare som driver Rysslands påverkan gentemot väst. En analys av över 3 000 interna läckta dokument blottlägger hur verklighet och desinfor

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/ryska-paverkanskampanjer-mer-avancerade-man-tidigare-trott - 2025-09-13

I en ny studie visar forskare från Lunds och Kristianias universitet hur Almedalsveckan och diskussionen i den officiella Twitter-hashtaggen #Almedalen utvecklats från pionjäranda till irrelevans. I den vetenskapliga artikeln "RIP #Almedalen: The Rise and Fall of the Hashtag of a Swedish Democracy Festival" analyseras användningen av hashtagen #almedalen på Twitter (numer X) under fyra valår. Tota

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Arbetet med uppsatsen har tagit Zewar Taher och Kenan Bakirci ut i Europa. Här står de framför EESC i Bryssel, efter att ha blivit inbjuda till en konferens. Antalet chaufförer från tredje land i EU uppskattas idag till ca 300 000. I en ny kandidatuppsats från institutionen för tjänstevetenskap, Lunds universitet har två studenter undersökt varför förare från länder utanför EU söker sig till Europ

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Lunds universitet fortsätter att stiga på QS World University Rankings 2026 och placerar sig på plats 72 i världen. Det är tre platser bättre än förra året och gör att Lunds universitet är det bäst rankade lärosätet i Sverige. QS har publicerat universitetsranking årligen sedan 2004. I QS senaste ranking (2026) utvärderades 8467 lärosäten varav 1 501 universitet har rankats.Lunds universitet har u

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Över hundra studenter samlades i Slottshagen när Helsingborgs stad tillsammans med studentföreningar bjöd in till fest för att fira terminsstarten. Med livemusik, foodtrucks och dans på The Tivoli blev kvällen en stämningsfull inledning på hösten och starten på en förhoppningsvis ny tradition. Den 26 augusti bjöds studenter på Campus Helsingborg in till en festlig start på terminen i Slottshagen v

https://www.ch.lu.se/artikel/studentfest-i-slottshagen-kan-bli-ny-tradition - 2025-09-13

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 India. Important recent

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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 history. More informati

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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 Professor Craig Jeffrey (phot

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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. Surinder Jodhka,  Jawaha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-economic-transformation-and-urbanisation-india - 2025-09-13

On Saturday 30 July 2016, the Bangalore Research Network – NAGARA invites scholars and ethnographers for its second annual workshop. The aim is to share recently-completed or advanced stage Ethnographic research on the city of Bangalore in a one-day workshop. The main goal is to take stock of the field of ‘Bangalore Studies’ over the last few decades and to consider future directions. The workshop

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The University of Jyväskylä in Finland invites participants to a conference entitled ”Poverty's Causes and Consequences in the Urban Developing World”, which will be held 4–6 August 2016. Anthropologists, ethnologists, sociologists, socio-economists, political scientists and development researchers among others are invited to submit session proposals for this conference. Session proposals should h

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SASNET and School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen) at Lund University invites you to a workshop day on September 23, 2016, from 9.30 to 3 pm in the LUX building in Lund. The event will discuss and highlight the future challenges for journalism and media in India and Sweden. The event is part of the Sweden–South Asia Media Project. During the day you will be able to meet and discuss the lates

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The Second International Conference on Law and Economics will be held in at IIT Kanpur, India on 3 - 4 September 2016. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) jointly organize the conference. The conference seeks to provide a platform where intellectuals in international and national law and economic

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On 15–17 August 2016, the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at Oslo University organizes a PhD course entitled ”Global Food Governance: The Role of Non-State Actors”. The objective of the interdisciplinary course is to critically analyse the changing nature of global food governance: the norms, rules and institutions that govern international political and economic interactions in t

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On 15-16 September 2016, the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University hosts a workshop to discuss issues concerning the typological profiles of the major language families of South Asia. The workshop convener is Professor Anju Saxena, and confirmed speakers include Gregory Andersson from the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages; Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi from Deccan Co

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/uppsala-university-workshop-typological-profiles-language-families-south-asia - 2025-09-13

The Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Plant Biomass – Bioproducts, Biocatalysts, and Biorefinery (SUTB4) will be hosted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in Coimbatore, India, 17 – 18 November 2016. The conference organised in association with Lund University; the SASNET Fermented Foods reserach network; the Indian Biomass Association (IBA); the P

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On Monday 20 June 2016, Assistant Professor Khalid Wasim from the School of Rural Development at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, India, met with SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund. Wasim had come to Europe for a month long stay at University of Münster in Germany, but took a chance also to visit Lund University and SASNET with an aim to search for research collaboration. His fo

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In early June 2016, Professor J B Prajapati, Head of the Dairy Microbiology Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India, again visited Lund University and its Food for Health Science Centre. Prajapati has had a long collaboration with Prof. emeritus Baboo Nair, and during this visit discussions were held with Prof. Richard Öste and Prof. Inger Björk on c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/key-persons-behind-thriving-fermented-foods-network-met-lund - 2025-09-13