Published 2 November 2016 After attending the 45th South Asian Studies conference at Madison, Wisconsin, 21-23 October 2016, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund did not return immediately to Sweden. Instead he travelled to the nearby metropolitan city of Chicago in order to visit the University of Chicago on invitation from Professor Dipesh Chakraborty who recently visited Lund University as the ke

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Published 2 November 2016 The Network for Asien studies (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo organises a seminar and book launch on 3 November 15.30-17.00. In this seminar, the authors and editors of five recently published books on India draw on their work from the perspective of caste, democracy, social movements, industrialisation and nationalism, to answer the questions: what have Modi and h

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Published 3 November 2016 Photo: Wikipedia Henrik Chetan Aspengren from Linnaeus University with assistance by the Nordic Centre in India organises a workshop entitled "Towards Global Social Theory? Possibilities and Tensions" in Delhi 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 E

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Published 3 November 2016 Photo: Muenchen.de The Faculty for the Study of Culture at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) of Indology (Chair) commencing on 1st April 2019. Applicants should be able to teach the full range of classical Indology. The focus of their research should be on Indian Buddhism; experience with Indic manuscripts wi

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Published 7 November 2016 Lund University is celebrating 350 years of education and research with €350,000 in scholarships! Win a scholarship for your Master’s programme by showing that you share Lund University's vision to understand, explain and improve the world and the human condition. How to apply for the scholarship: First register and fill out your personal information.Explore the different

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Published 7 November 2016 On Monday 10 October 2016, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) held its final board meeting as an autonomous unit of Lund University. On 1 January 2017, an organizational change takes place, and SASNET will merge with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and become a subdivision of CMES. The focus of SASNET henceforth will be on South Asia related re

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Published 24 November 2016 Photo: Vetenskapsrådet In late October 2016, the Swedish Research Council decided upon project grants within Humanities. Two projects given a grant relates to South Asian studies, from Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Within Medicine, one project grant from Uppsala University was given a grant relate to South Asian studies. List of South Asia related projects

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Published 9 November 2016 Subjects, Citizens and Law. Colonial and independent India, edited by Professor Gunnel Cederlöf, Linnaeus University, Växjö; and Professor Sanjukta Das Gupta, Sapienza University of Rome. Routledge India 2017. This volume investigates how, where and when subjects and citizens come into being, assert themselves and exercise subjecthood or citizenship in the formation of mo

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Published 1 November 2016 Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh from the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) held an Asia Dynamics lecture at University of Copenhagen on Friday 11 November 2016, 10.00-12.00. She spoke about ”Talking with the Pakistani Taliban”. Venue: Faculty of Humanities, Room 10-4-05, Karen Blixens Vej 4, Copenhagen.The question of whether governments should engage with talks wi

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Published 27 April 2015 VINNOVA, Energimyndigheten and Formas have selected Smart Built Environment as one out of five new Swedish strategic innovation projects. The government and industry will initially invest up to 200 million SEK in the program over three years.The investments will cover research, development and innovation in the fields of digital infrastructure, business-driven applications

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Published 27 April 2015 In the latest issue of LUM, Jonas Ardö, Senior Lecturer at our department, discusses how to make resources suffice in the Sahel region. Read the article here.

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Published 28 April 2015 Emma Li Johansson, PhD student, collaborates with Scientific American graphic science team for visualizing large scale land acquistions for their May 2015 issue. Read article in Scientific AmericanEmma Li Johansson staff page

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Published 5 May 2015 QS Top University ranking for 2015 places Lund University as the world's twentieth by subject (Geography & Area Studies). The QS World University Rankings places Lund University as number 20 world wide in Geography & Area Studies. This is an improvement from last year's position of 21. Lund University as a whole also climbs to rank #60, maintaining a firm grip on the "A top 10

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Published 6 May 2015 ICOS Carbon Portal is the central data portal for a European-wide Greenhouse Gas monitoring network. It offers access to research data from ICOS scientists all over Europe, and provides facilities and IT resources supporting modelling activities for elaborated data products. Alex Vermeulen, director of the Carbon Portal Hello Alex Vermeulen! What is the Carbon Portal?– The ICO

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Published 22 May 2015 Climatic covariates of NBP extremes. Findings from an international research group including Anders Ahlström (main author) and Ben Smith from INES, reveals news that changes the view on neglected areas: the semi-arid ecosystems has a key role in carbon cycling. The group has published their findings in Science. Terrestrial bioshere is absorbing about 1/4 of the carbon dioxide

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Published 1 June 2015 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in Washington asked four experts on the Arctic. First to be asked is Margareta Johansson, researcher at our department. Watch her answer or watch all four expert answers.

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Published 8 June 2015 Daniel Metcalfe, associate senior lecturer at our department, has received a grant from the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland. The money is to enable him to investigate how grazing insects affect soil processes in the birch forests of Lapland. Visit Dan Metcalfe's staff page

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Published 3 August 2015 Ylva Persson, PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University, is conducting research on cloned trees. Her aim is to understand how the substances secreted by trees affects, and is affected, by climate. Ylva Persson studies the trees' volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).  It does not only give the plants their characteristic smell, but it also hav

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Published 25 August 2015 The new ESA (European Space Agency) satellite SENTINEL-2 is now in orbit, producing preliminary test data. The satellites' sensor is unique in terms of having both high spatial resolution, as well as temporal resolution. Data from SENTINEl-2 is used by the Lund Earth Observation research group in their research.For more information, use the following links:https://scihub.e

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Published 28 August 2015 Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology, has written an article in Miljömagasinet on climate change. It is still possible to influence the ongoing development, he writes. Read article here (Google translated)Staff page of Markku Rummukainen

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