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In 2000, the Swedish development agency (SIDA) selected Lund University to host a new network that was focused on South Asia. The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) has – largely thanks to the ambitious work carried out by the former directors Staffan Lindberg and Anna Lindberg as well as the former deputy director Lars Eklund – established itself as an important and well-known node for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/organisational-changes-and-new-director - 2025-12-13

SASNET will host a one-day workshop – A Nation and its Fault Lines – on February 25, 2022. Jointly conceptualised and organised by SASNET-affiliated researchers Amrita Ghosh and Isha Dubey, the workshop constitutes the culminating event of their work at SASNET on the interconnected themes of postcolonial conflict zones, protracted displacement, historical trauma and memory politics in modern and c

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-nation-and-its-fault-lines-organised-isha-dubey-and-amrita-ghosh-0 - 2025-12-13

During 2021 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through webinars, publications, podcasts, networking, and workshops. During the year SASNET hosted several online events, mo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-activity-report-2021-published - 2025-12-13

During the year 2022, SASNET organizes a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. The digital lecture series is one of the projects funded by External Relations at Lund University as a part of the university’s strategic Asia Action Plan which aims to support

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-lectures-indian-religions - 2025-12-13

Liminal Urban Dwelling captures Mumbai’s most significant resettlement program and exemplifies the racialized housing forms for the poor population in the urban zones that are deemed unfit for human habitation. The exhibition comprises ten photographs, as seen and suggested by the community, that captures photographic representation of everyday encounters of environment, space, architecture, infra

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/exhibition-lund-liminal-urban-dwelling - 2025-12-13

From this year onwards, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) will award an annual Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences (broadly conceived), which has been submitted and defended by a student at Lund University. - With the prize, we both hope to build on Lund University's long history of promoting and disseminating

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/best-south-asia-thesis-award-20212022 - 2025-12-13

In a new article, published in The Conversation, SASNET affiliated researcher Andreas Johansson writes about the recent protests in Sri Lanka. -The article tries to analyse the possible implications of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka with a focus on the recent ethnic tensions in the country, says Andreas Johansson.   The article is part of Andreas Johansson’s research project at SASNET, Religion

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-about-protests-sri-lanka - 2025-12-13

SASNET invites Lund University PhD students to apply for two travel grants. The deadline is the 31st of January 2023. Each grant amounts to a maximum value of 25 000 SEK (direct costs) and shall be used to cover travel expenses such as flight tickets, accommodation, and visa fees. Eligibility criteria You are a PhD student presently enrolled at Lund University You plan to travel during 2023 for a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-travel-grants-lund-university-phd-students - 2025-12-13

Maryam Nastar, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), and Rashmi B. Prasad, Associate Professor at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receive the first two SASNET grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of research applications. Maryam Nastar, (Mal)Adaptation to extreme urban heat: At what cost, to whom? The proposed re

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-sasnet-grants-support-writing-research-applications - 2025-12-13

The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a new round of planning grants. Examples of such applications include the EU framework programme and programme applications to Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The grant amounts to a maximum valu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/planning-grants-submission-major-research-application - 2025-12-13

The seminar took place on the 14 September in collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the region. The seminar was opened and moderated by Paul O'Shea, senior lecturer at ACE and specialist in international relations in E

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-seminar-semester-how-will-russias-invasion-ukraine-affect-geopolitics-asia - 2025-12-13

Renewable energy, interviews with former Maoist women combatants, and urban development in Mumbai. SASNET’s Annual Symposium offered a full day of presentations of ongoing research, ranging from everyday transactions at New Delhi’s open markets to the issue of shrinking spaces for civil society organisations in India. The symposium took place in the Old Bishop’s House at Lund University on 30 Sept

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-symposium-2022 - 2025-12-13

Under the heading "What's happening in Sri Lanka", SASNET invited two researchers from the University of Gothenburg; Kanchana N Ruwanpura, Professor at Human Geography, and Camilla Orjuela, Professor at the School of Global Studies, to take part in a panel discussion on Sri Lanka's economic and political crisis. The panel debate, held in cooperation with the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF Lun

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/they-gave-their-perspectives-what-happening-sri-lanka - 2025-12-13

Professor Kinnvall receives the SASNET planning grant for her project idea on "Dismantling Democracy: Insecurity, Emotions and Authoritarian Populism". She describes how her project intend to develop a novel approach to the study of insecurity and emotions by highlighting the co-production of insecure lives between states; between leaders and followers; and between individuals and groups. The proj

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/catarina-kinnvall-receives-sasnets-planning-grant - 2025-12-13

Last week, Manisha Anantharaman, PhD and Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California, gave a lecture at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies. The lecture was done at the beginning of Professor Anantharaman's three week long visit at Lund University. Read more about her lecture here. Read more about Manisha and her research here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/manisha-anantharaman-circular-economy - 2025-12-13

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Shruti Kapila, Professor of Indian History and Global Political Thought at the University of Cambridge. A roundtable on her recently published book, "Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age", was organised in collaboration with the Department of Political Science at Lund University. In the book, Kapila analyses the political thought o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/roundtable-shruti-kapila - 2025-12-13

Earlier this month, SASNET Director Ted Svensson visited Bangladesh where he met colleagues to discuss future joint initiatives. In the meetings, Svensson also discussed the possibility of deepening and expanding on existing ties between Lund University and partner institutions in the country. One of these meetings took place at the University of Liberal Arts (ULAB) in Dhaka, where he had very pro

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/directors-visit-bangladesh - 2025-12-13

SASNET's Director, Ted Svensson, and Joel Lee (Williams College) are jointly organising a workshop at Lund University 30-31 May 2023. They would like to invite postdocs and PhD students affiliated with a university in the Nordic countries to apply to participate. Deadline is the 10 February. Workshop description  Though Hindu nationalists posit the existence of a monolithic ethnoreligious majority

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-sasnet-workshop-hindu-majoritarianism-caste-politics-and-minoritisation - 2025-12-13

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 the question: How we ca

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-meeting-resulted-formation-new-nordic-south-asian-studies-network - 2025-12-13

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, and also India’s Coordi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-piece-indian-election-studies - 2025-12-13