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SANR Conference 2020 - Call for papers

The 4th annual meeting will take place at the University of Copenhagen on 28th and 29th May 2020. We are pleased to invite scholars and policy practitioners to contribute to the 4th annual meeting of the South Asia across the Nordic Region (SANR 2020) in Copenhagen. The SANR annual meeting offers a platform to present ongoing research and enhance scholarly collaboration across Nordic research inst

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sanr-conference-2020-call-papers - 2025-08-29

Two new affiliated researchers at SASNET

SASNET is pleased to welcome Dr. Amrita Ghosh from Linnaeus University and Dr. Phu Doma Lama from Lund University as new affiliated researchers. Amrita Ghosh has a Masters in English from Rutgers University, NJ and a PhD in Postcolonial literature and theory, specializing in Partition Literature, from Drew University, New Jersey, USA. She has had a fellowship at Cornell University, Critical Theory

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/two-new-affiliated-researchers-sasnet - 2025-08-29

SASNET sponsors course at Lund University

The course takes place at the LU Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and deals with religious diversity in contemporary India. The course ”Brahmaner, imamer och heliga mödrar: religiös mångfald i dagens Indien” (Brahmins, Imams and Sacred Mothers: Religious Pluralism in Modern India) offers an introduction to the religious climate of today's India. Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Sik

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-sponsors-course-lund-university - 2025-08-29

Papers invited for SASNET 2016 conference on Modernity in South Asia

SASNET organizes a conference entitled ”Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future in Everyday Life in South Asia” from 20 – 22 September 2016 at Lund University. The conference will explore what it means to consider oneself modern or outside the limits of modernity, in an extremely diverse region. It will also examine how the notion of modernity is experienced, contested, and negotiated in South Asia

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/papers-invited-sasnet-2016-conference-modernity-south-asia - 2025-08-29

SASNET welcomes Johan Nilsson

Johan Nilsson will join SASNET to prepare a project tracing the reception of South Asian religion in Swedish Theosophy. Nilsson recently completed his PhD in the history of religions at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University. Nilsson's primary focus of study is esoteric and occult movements active during the 19th and 20th century. He has successfully defended his doctoral d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-johan-nilsson - 2025-08-29

Asheque Haque joins SASNET

During his time at SASNET, the security expert will work on Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in South Asia. Asheque recently joined SASNET as an affiliated researcher. He is a political and security researcher on South Asia. He has worked as a countering violent extremism professional at the international level and has led multiple projects in the field. His research includes violent extremist propa

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asheque-haque-joins-sasnet - 2025-08-29

New report by South Asia Initiative on EU-India relations in Africa

In the brief, UI's Emil Lidén examines the potential for deeper security cooperation in Africa. The brief "Securing a Shared Neighbourhood: The European Union and India as Partners for Security in Africa" was recently published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), which co-hosts the South Asia Initiative along with SASNET.  SummaryThe strategic partnership between the European U

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2025-08-29

Latest SASNET Podcast on Corona virus in India

In view of the ongoing corona pandemic, Andreas Johansson sat down with epidemiologist Dr. Shantanu Sharma to talk about the latest developments. After the first cases were reported in November 2019 in the Wuhan region of China, the coronavirus has spread to 177 countries and infected more than 200,000 people worldwide. While Europe is currently treated as the epicentre, not many cases have been r

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2025-08-29

New podcast episode on Al-Qaeda and Afghan peace talks

For the latest episode of our podcast, Andreas Johansson sat down with SASNET affiliated researcher Orwa Ajjoub. SASNET director Andreas Johansson interviewed the scholar Orwa Ajjoub, who joined SASNET in January 2020, on the role of Al-Qaeda in the Afghan peace talks.Orwa Ajjoub is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In 2018, Orwa graduated from Lund University with an MA in Middle Eastern Studie

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-al-qaeda-and-afghan-peace-talks - 2025-08-29

SASNET post-doc presented at conference in Bangladesh

At the Intl. Conference on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary, Isha Dubey talked about memorial cultures in India and Bangladesh. SASNET post-doctoral researcher Isha Dubey delivered the valedictory address at the International Conference on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary (1920-2020). The Conference – Bangabandhu, His Times and Legacy: Society, Economy and Sta

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-presented-conference-bangladesh - 2025-08-29

New SASNET Podcast episode on Corona pandemic and Indian economy

For the fourth episode of our weekly podcast, Andreas Johansson spoke to LU professor Neelambar Hatti. Andreas Johansson had a talk with Neelambar Hatti, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economic History at Lund University, about possible short and long-term effects of the corona pandemic on the Indian economy.Listen to the episode here or on our Soundcloud channel. Our podcast is also avai

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-podcast-episode-corona-pandemic-and-indian-economy - 2025-08-29

Latest SASNET podcast episode on COVID-19 and fake news in India

Hanna Geschewski had the pleasure to speak to SASNET affiliate researcher Dr Parama Sinha Palit on the spread of fake news on social media in times of the coronavirus pandemic. For this episode of our podcast, we invited Dr Parama Sinha Palit, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies within Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She is also an affiliate

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-episode-covid-19-and-fake-news-india - 2025-08-29

Last week's podcast on COVID-19 in Nepal

For the latest podcast episode, Hanna spoke to Dr Sameer Mani Dixit, a public health expert, about the current spread of the coronavirus in Nepal. Dr Dixit has a background in biotechnology and immunology. After completing his PhD thesis at Western Sydney University, he returned to Nepal and after some teaching assignments, he and a number of research colleagues founded the renowned Centre for Mol

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/last-weeks-podcast-covid-19-nepal - 2025-08-29

SASNET supported Intl conference on fermented foods in India

In December 2019, LU Professor emeritus Dr Baboo M Nair attended the conference at Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat. The 9th International Conference on “Fermented Foods, Health Status and Social Well-being” was organised on 13th and14th December 2019 by the Swedish South Asian Network on Fermented Foods (SASNET-FF) at Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India  in association with  SASNE

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-supported-intl-conference-fermented-foods-india - 2025-08-29

New podcast episode on the Sweden-South Asia Media Project

SASNET director Andreas Johansson spoke to Andreas Mattsson and Vibodh Parthasarathi about their brain child. For the latest podcast episode, SASNET affiliate researchers Andreas Mattsson and Vibodh Parthasarathi joined Andreas Johansson to speak about the Sweden-South Asia Media Project initiated by them and the challenges and potential of the media in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic.Find out

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sweden-south-asia-media-project - 2025-08-29

Chakra Journal special issue - call for papers

For a special issue of Chakra on research in times of COVID-19, SASNET invites scholars to contribute. How do we continue to do proper research in area studies in times when we cannot be mobile? Indeed, this period will be challenging in many aspects. Now it is time to be creative. We want your thoughts on this in a special issue of Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies, published by SAS

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/chakra-journal-special-issue-call-papers - 2025-08-29

New podcast episode on COVID-19 and the Nepali economy

For our latest episode, Hanna Geschewski spoke to two Nepali experts about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy and labour market in Nepal. This episode focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by the government to slow its spread, particularly the ongoing nationwide lockdown, on the Nepali economy, the labour market and on the millions of Nepali migr

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-covid-19-and-nepali-economy - 2025-08-29

Podcast episode on coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh

Nirjhar Mazumder from Utrikespolitiska Institutet in Stockholm joined us to give an overview of recent developments in Bangladesh in view of the ongoing pandemic. For this episode, Hanna Geschewski spoke to Nirjhar Mazumder of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) about the spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh, measures taken by the government, the situation in the garment factories a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/podcast-episode-coronavirus-pandemic-bangladesh - 2025-08-29

New SASNET report on South Asia research at LU

The 2020 report by previous SASNET intern Anni-Elina Vänska provides a comprehensive overview of current and previous research at Lund University on the South Asian region. The report is categorised by Lund University faculties and lists faculty members that have conducted work on or in South Asia, either individually or as part of Lund University research projects. More than 45 scholars from eigh

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-report-south-asia-research-lu - 2025-08-29