Photo: Malmö City Library (Rida Khan and Fredrik Elg) SASNET in collaboration with Malmö Public Libraries and Swedish PEN hosted a panel discussion on the public protests and political unrest in contemporary Bangladesh. What happens when a country faces major changes? Following a popular uprising that forced Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country, Bangladesh is facing

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Lund University researchers Riya Raphael and Sanjib Saha have each been awarded the 2024 SASNET Grant for Writing a Research Application. The grant, which is awarded annually and supports one month of full-time work, is designed to help Lund University researchers prepare strong applications for future funding and contribute to impactful studies with a focus on the South Asia region.Riya Raphael,

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The SASNET South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students and Travel Grant for Journalism Students are now open for applications. These grants support fieldwork and research in South Asia. The South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students The South Asia Travel Grant for Doctoral Students is a grant for Lund University doctoral students, who plan to travel during 2025-2026. The purpose of travel sho

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During the spring semester of 2025, SASNET will host a variety of events, focusing on the region of South Asia. We welcome you to join our lectures, panels, and seminars! 23 January. SASNET Public Lecture with Jagannath Panda: "Power Plays in a Multipolar World: Mapping India’s Global Game"A public lecture with Jagannath Panda (Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs)

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Jagannath Panda (Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs) visited SASNET for a talk on India’s strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. Yesterday, January 23, Jagannath Panda delivered a public SASNET Lecture at the Eden Auditorium, focusing on India's foreign policy and strategic choices in the Indo-Pacific. The event was co-organized with the Lund Association of Forei

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SASNET hosted a panel discussion exploring the current state of women’s rights across South Asia. On 20 March, SASNET in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund organized a panel discussion about key challenges, recent developments, and the future of gender equality across the South Asia region. The panel discussion included topics such as legal and political rights, socioeco

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-panel-discussion-womens-rights-south-asia - 2025-08-27

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), SASNET hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing

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A conference on ‘Women Activism and Politics in Sweden and India’ will be held on 20 – 21 June 2016 at Karlstad University. It is organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, India, as a part of a series of conferences to be held in Sweden and India. The organisers, including P

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Are you a master or doctoral student at Lund University, focusing on South Asia? Apply for the SASNET travel grant! Application deadline: 15 October 2025. The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) invites Lund University master and doctoral students to apply for a South Asia travel grant.The South Asia Travel Grant for Master Students The South Asia Travel Grant for Master Students is a gra

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Do you know an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis on the topic of South Asia? Nominate it now for the annual SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award. SASNET annually grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the humanities or social sciences. You are now able to nominate a thesis for the ongoing academic year of 2024/2025.To be eli

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nominate-now-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20242025 - 2025-08-27

Fainaz Inamdeen, a PhD student in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded the 2025 SASNET PhD Travel Grant. The funding will support a two-week research stay at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, where Fainaz Inamdeen will continue his work on bridge scour - an increasingly urgent issue as extreme river flows become more common due to climate change.The visit builds on

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Sofia Nyström and Ida Nilsson have been awarded the 2025 SASNET Travel Grant for Journalism Students. This autumn, they will travel to Sri Lanka to report on the country’s ongoing economic and political challenges. The SASNET travel grant is designed to give journalism students the opportunity to conduct on-the-ground reporting in South Asia, encouraging a deeper and more nuanced understanding of

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sofia-nystrom-and-ida-nilsson-awarded-sasnet-travel-grant-journalism-students-2025 - 2025-08-27

On 22-23 June 2016, Invest in Skåne and Medicon Village – connected to Lund University – organize for the first time a summit entitled The Bridge. The aim of the summit is to enable and drive dialogue, cooperation and research within Life and Materials Science, and by these means help solve some of today’s biggest challenges in areas like energy, health, environment, water and poverty. Well-known

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The fifth annual Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM) Workshop will be held from 24–25 June 2015 in Göttingen, Germany. The theme of the workshop is ”Transformations of ‘the Political’” and the themes discussed will be: - State and Governance; - Politics of knowledge production, - Political performance, - Development and Dissent; - Labouring Lives and the Politics of Labour; and - Contested cul

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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

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Ai generated image Paul O'Shea published a peer-reviewed article with East Asia Forum on the developments in EU-Japan political and security relations.  In November 2024, the European Union and Japan expanded on their 2018 agreements with a new security and defence partnership. While it promises greater cooperation, the agreement remains largely exploratory and vague, lagging behind the rapid pace

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Photo by Zalfa Imani on Unsplash President Trump says China is operating the Panama Canal. But is that the case?  Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, was interviewed by France 24 on January 22, 2025, about President Trump's claims that China controls the Panama Canal. In the interview, Tabita explains that China has no direct influence over the canal

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-about-chinas-involvement-panama-canal - 2025-08-27