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“We are dependent on one another globally – this became evident not least through the Ebola epidemic. For cooperation to work and develop, Africa cannot be left out of the loop”, says Benedict Oppong Asamoah, researcher and lecturer in public health. He hopes that the University’s focus on Africa will lead to more and better contacts Benedict Oppong Asamoah. Photo: Gunnar Menander Lund University

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-strategy-shows-great-potential - 2025-12-19

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/last-part-passion-and-politics-conversation-series - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

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 - 2025-12-19

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-crisis - 2025-12-19

On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13.15-14.45 Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas held a lecture entitled: "Is ‘global’ English compatible with local language ecologies and principles of language rights, or a neoimperialist project?" at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL, room H339). The lecture was jointly organised by the Centre for Languages and Literature and SASNET at Lund Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/watch-lecture-tove-skutnabb-kangas-and-robert-philipson - 2025-12-19

An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created drastic changes to life on Earth. The breakup of a major asteroid filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust leading to a unique ice age and, subsequently, to higher levels of biodiversity. The unexpected discovery could be r

https://www.science.lu.se/article/gigantic-asteroid-collision-boosted-biodiversity-earth - 2025-12-19

Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to full integration. Rethinking prostitution policies" has now been published in The Sage Handbook of Global Sexuality. According to professor Hendrik Wagenaar at Kings College in London it is a "seminal typology of prostitution policies"

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-12-19

Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, region

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-presentation-sol-sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lund-university - 2025-12-19

Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, region

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis - 2025-12-19

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nordic-south-asia-meeting-copenhagen - 2025-12-19

The Exeter South Asia Centre will host the 2018 British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference from Wednesday 18th April to Friday 20th April 2018 at the University of Exeter. The organisers are now accepting panel and paper submissions for this conference. They invite proposals for panels and papers from scholars and practitioners involved with the cultures, countries, economies, e

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-basas-conference-2018 - 2025-12-19

Accelerated by changes in the geography and capitalist social relations of production, the influx of labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers has transformed the demography of cities in the global North. In the Swedish context, as the demography of the cities is altering, neoliberal urban planning and regeneration policies have emerged in the wake of socio-spatial polarization and racial capita

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/negotiating-invisibility-street-making-margins-malmo-laleh-foroughanfar - 2025-12-20

Deadline to apply: 29 November 2024. For Spring 2025 you can apply for:PhD CoursesAsia in the Global Economy4 Credits, 20 January to 20 February 2025    Research ethics and fieldwork in an authoritarian context3 credits, 27-28 February 2025 WorkshopsVisual methods and art-based research in the social sciences17-18 March in Lund    Presentation skills and public speaking8 May in Lund     MobilityAp

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-open-our-spring-2025-courses-workshops-mobility-and-annual-retreat - 2025-12-19

Application deadline: 13 November During the spring of 2024, two new PhD courses are planned, Asia in the Global Economy and The Craft of Writing and Publishing Peer Reviewed Journal Articles. Please check the links for more information and application forms if you are interested. Application deadline: 13 November. If you are interested but the timing of the course doesn't work, please drop us an

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-being-accepted-our-spring-2024-phd-mobility-and-phd-courses - 2025-12-19

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True are guest editors of a Special Issue on gender and foreign policy in the journal “Foreign Policy Analysis”. They have also co-authored the introductory article “Gendering Foreign Policy. Advancing a Comparative Framework for Analysis”. The Special Issue addresses the rise and resistance to pro-gender norms and feminist strategies in foreign policy and global politics

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-gender-and-foreign-policy - 2025-12-19

A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics intersects with climate risk and adaptation at different scales. The aim is to contribute to more resilient, inclusive and just futures by studying adaptation to climate change through a lens of vulnerability, cross-scale risk, and power structures in Skåne, Sweden, and in East Anglia, England. – We know that climate change i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-seeks-shed-light-power-dynamics-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-12-19

In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography at Lund University and a member of MERGE and BECC, gained 60.000 reads of his article “Gigantic solar farms of the future might impact how much solar power can be generated on the other side of the world”. How could this be? We asked Zhengyao Lu himself to share his experience. Following the publication of a new piece of research wit

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/60000-views-conversation-two-weeks-whats-secret - 2025-12-19

Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being reclassified as an ice field, is extremely worrying. The speed of change is crazy. When something so visible is lost, it also brings home the scale of global climate change, says Emily Boyd, professor at Lund University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-venezuelas-last-glacier-points-future-where-loss-opposed-damage-new-reality - 2025-12-19

On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use will cover forests totaling more than 13 million square miles. Sustainability researcher and deforestation expert, Torsten Krause, at Lund University for Su

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2025-12-19