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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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

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 - 2025-09-29

As a further step in the collaboration between the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) at Lund University we are now launching a series of podcasts on India and South Asia. The project manager for this podcast is Henrik Chetan Aspengren, who is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In the first episode Professor Gunnel Cederlöf, Linnae

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-about-india-china-corridor - 2025-09-29

Andreas Johansson, researcher and head of SASNET, was interviewed on Swedish Radio (Studio Ett) about the latest development in the Maldives, including what this development means for Maldivian democracy. You can listen to the interview here Stuio ett kväll 5 februari (In Swedish).

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-development-maldives - 2025-09-29

SASNET director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation entitled "Maldives crisis: a bitter religious divide comes to the fore". Read the article here.  https://theconversation.com/maldives-crisis-a-bitter-religious-divide-comes-to-the-fore-91455

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-conversation-about-maldives-crisis - 2025-09-29

During the spring 2016, Professor Amit Prakash from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi works as ICCR Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He is the second in a planned row of four consecutive ICCR guest professors in Uppsala– the first was Professor Siddharth Singh, from Banaras Hindu Uni

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/amit-prakash-returns-sweden-iccr-professor-uppsala-university - 2025-09-29

SASNET director Andreas Johansson has published an article in openDemocracy entitled "Sri Lanka local elections: the return of Rajapaksa". In the article he analyzes the latest elections in Sri Lanka Read the articel here  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-elections-sri-lanka - 2025-09-29

On Monday 23 April 15.00-17-00 there will be a panel discussion on state building in Afghanistan in a global context at Edens hörsal, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! With its strategic location Afghanistan has been a focus of global politics for many centuries. Despite its fragile nation-state and conflicting ethnic p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-state-building-afghanistan-global-context - 2025-09-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in The Conversation on the recent Pashtun protests in Pakistan. The article is entitled "Pakistan's 'Pashtun Spring' pits human rights demands against War on Terror politics". Read the articel here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-recent-pashtun-protests-pakistan - 2025-09-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published a brief in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper Series entitled "The impact of forced migration on Afghanistan's domestic politics and foreign relations". The brief was first presented as a working paper at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read the brief here 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/brief-impact-forced-migration-afghanistans-domestic-politics-and-foreign-relations - 2025-09-29

On international women's day March 8, 17.00-20.00, there will be a film Screening of the movie India’s Daughter at Stora Algatan 4 International Desk at Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! India's Daughter narrates the story of an ordinary girl with an extremely cruel life experience which broke the silence around rape culture in Indian society. This is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/film-screening-indias-daughter - 2025-09-29

The complete SASNET Work Report 2015 (Verksamhetsberättelse) was published on 29 February 2016. It contains an extensive summary of the work being done by SASNET at Lund University in 2015, in Swedish. An impressive amount of activities have been carried out, including a major research conference in May, and two South Asia Media Project workshops in the fall.An external evaluation of SASNET was al

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-work-report-2015-published - 2025-09-29

On Wednesday 25 April 13.00-15-00 SASNET is hosting a seminar on the Afghan Shia: Politics, Piety, and Diaspora in LUX Building, B417. Welcome! The talk by Robert D. Crews, Professor of History at Stanford University, examines the revolutionary politics of Shi’i communities in Afghanistan and the diaspora from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the emergence of new forms of political mobiliza

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-afghan-shia-politics-piety-and-diaspora - 2025-09-29

On Friday 16, 09.00-10.30, there will be a lecture on Indian independent documentary at Gamla Kirurgen, floor 3 at Lund University. The event is a collaboration with School of Journalism and the event is open to everyone. The documentary participant is largely a site of anxiety, viewed through the discourse of documentary image ethics and its construction of moral obligations between filmmaker and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-indian-independent-documentary - 2025-09-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in openDemocracy which discusses the evidence for a populist myth about immigration courts and public opinion. Read the articel here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-populist-myth-about-immigration-courts-and-public-opinion - 2025-09-29