Published 2 May 2016 More than 50 Nordic researchers and academics from 20 universities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland participated in the Networking Day on South Asian Studies, that SASNET organized in Lund on Monday 25 April 2016. They are all working on South Asia-related issues, and were invited to discuss ways to expand collaboration on education and research. The meeting addressed th

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-05-07

Published 2 May 2016 Dr. Taberez Ahmed Neyazi has co-authored an article entitled “Campaigns, Digital Media, and Mobilization in India” with Anup Kumar and Holli A. Semetko. The article is published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Neyazi, who is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-piece-indian-election-studies - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 18 January 2023 Soumi Banerjee explains how her PhD research focus changed during the corona-pandemic. Soumi Banjeree, 28, is currently doing a PhD at Lund University’s School of Social Work and occupied the coordinator position at SASNET during the autumn. Alongside organising and making sure panellists make thei

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Published 3 May 2016 Professor Meera Chakravorty from the Dept. of Cultural Studies at Jain University, Bangalore, India, visited Sweden in the first week of April 2016. Meera Chakravorty gave two interesting lectures. The main function was at Sigtunastiftelsen (the Sigtuna Foundation) in the small town of Sigtuna, outside Stockholm. Here, she was invited to to speak on ”Rabindranath Tagore: The P

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/bangalore-professor-toured-lund-university-and-sigtuna - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 19 January 2023 The Partition Museum in Amritsar, India. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Ted Svensson has published the article "Transcending antagonism in South Asia: advancing agonistic peace through the Partition Museum" in the journal Peacebuilding. In the article, which was published in the journal Peacebuilding in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-publishes-article-transcending-antagonism-south-asia - 2025-05-07

Published 15 May 2016 Together with Department of Political Science we are are organizing a talk with Assistant Professor Nitasha Kaul from the University of Westminister, UK on Thursday, May 19 at 3.15-5.00 pm in the large conference room (room 367) at the Political Science Department. Dr. Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet. She is currently an Assistant Professor i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetpolitical-science-seminar-neoliberal-nationalism-india - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 1 February 2023 Are you a student enrolled in the Bachelor course in journalism at the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University? Then you are eligible to apply for our grant to conduct fieldworkd in South Asia. Applicants for this grant must be students within the Bachelor course in journalism at t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 February 2023 Gateway of India, Mumbai. Are you planning to write your thesis topic related to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already defended your thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The Award has been awarded since 2022 an

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-our-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20222023 - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 9 February 2023 In the coming four years Mine Islar, Senior lecturer at LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies), will lead projects working on sustainable development, political ecology and social justice in the intersection of climate change and biodiversity in the Himalayas.  The funding was g

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/mine-islar-receives-funding-studying-climate-change-and-biodiversity-himalayas - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 1 March 2023 Soumi Banerjee, Tabita Rosendal and Sunny Gurumayum were all chosen to receive this semester's SASNET Doctoral travel grant. Read more about their individual projects here. SASNET has decided to award travel grants to three doctoral students at Lund University. They will use the grant to fund their fi

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Published 16 May 2016 PhD candidate Maria Tonini at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Ambiguities of Recognition – Young Queer Sexualities in Contemporary India” on Friday 13 May 2016. The faculty opponent was Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Venue: Auditoriet/Hörsalen, Kulturen, Tegnérplatsen

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/doctoral-thesis-homosexuality-contemporary-india - 2025-05-07

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 16 March 2023 Read about our activities during 2022 in our newly published Activity Report. During 2022, SASNET conducted a wide range of activities to promote, support and disseminate research on South Asia at Lund University.  From arranging activities in collaboration with academic departments, research groups

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2022-published - 2025-05-07

Published 21 May 2016 Two visiting Indian researchers – Dr V. Sivasubramanian and Professor N Thajuddin, held an appreciated SASNET lecture at Lund University on Monday 23 May 2016, 13.15–14.00. The seminar, organized in collaboration with the Division of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Department of Technology and Society at Lund University, was entitled ”Microalgal  Biotechnology and P

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-successful-indian-microalgal-biotechnology-research - 2025-05-07

Published 26 May 2016 PhD candidate Andreas Johansson at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR), Lund University, defended his doctoral dissertation entitled ”Pragmatic Muslim Politics. The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress” on Friday 27 May 2016, at 10.00. Andreas is also connected to the Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University in Växjö/Kalmar, and has therefore had doub

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-johansson-defends-thesis-muslim-politics-sri-lanka - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 28 oktober 2024 Christian Bierlich på Fysiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat en banbrytande metod för simulering av högenergikollisioner, som avsevärt kan minska miljöpåverkan. Genom att förbättra beräkningseffektiviteten hoppas han göra dessa simuleringar mer hållbara och tillgängliga. Forskningen finansierades av Lunds universitets hållbarhetsfond, som stöder innova

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-lanserar-mer-hallbar-metod-kollisionssimulationer - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 18 november 2024 Professor Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat ett enkelt test som ökar chanserna för graviditet och samtidigt minskar risken för biverkningar i samband med provrörsbefruktning. För att ta testet till marknaden startades bolaget Dx4Life AB tillsammans med LU Holding. Nu har bolaget stängt sin första runda om 6,4 miljoner med Gobia Enterprises i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/dx4life-vill-oka-chanserna-ofrivilligt-barnlosa-par-att-bli-foraldrar-tar-64-msek - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 23 juni 2016 LU Innovation System AB blir LU Holding AB. Holdingbolaget LU Innovation System AB byter namn till LU Holding AB. Förändringen innebär enbart ett namnbyte, verksamhet och ledning av bolaget är detsamma som tidigare.För mer information kontakta christine [dot] widstrand [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Christine Widstrand), vice VD och portföljansvarig.

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Publicerad 25 november 2024 PluvioFlow, ett banbrytande teknikföretag specialiserat på modellering av översvämningar, tillkännager att Jonatan Green Brzezinski kliver in som ny VD och att Inriver-grundaren Johan Billgren går in som styrelseordförande. Samtidigt lanserar bolaget ett pilotprogram efter att ha mottagit mycket positiv feedback från marknaden. ”Det känns superkul att kliva in och komma

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/pluvioflow-vill-oka-samhallets-resiliens-mot-oversvamningar-tar-ny-vd-och-lanserar-pilotprogram-0 - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 4 december 2024 För att möta de unika behov som Sveriges innovativa och snabbväxande startups och scaleups har, ska ett nytt samarbete etablera Sweden Startup Nation. Initiativet syftar till att bli en oberoende, nationell kunskapskälla som förbättrar förståelsen för startups och scaleups och deras ekosystem genom att samla in, analysera och tillgängliggöra data om målgruppen. Initiativ

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/ny-satsning-ska-starka-sveriges-startups-och-scaleups - 2025-05-07

Publicerad 13 juni 2016 Di Digitals Viktor Ström hittar ett mycket gott exempel på kommersialisering av forskning. I Di Digitalpodden hittar journalisten Viktor Ström en gemensam nämnare för flera skånska startup-jättar: Lunds universitet. Och en forskargrupp står bakom en särskilt imponerande samling bolag!Hör avsnittet på Acast.   

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/di-digitalpodden-om-startups-fran-lunds-universitet - 2025-05-07