Publicerad 13 januari 2025 Kan en klädnad, kostym eller dräkt förändra en berättelse? Den frågan har Charlotte Østergaard försökt besvara. Nu disputerar hon – och blir Teaterhögskolans första doktor inom forskningsfältet kostym. I många teatersammanhang uppfattas kostymer ofta som visuella element som stöder en dramaturgisk berättelse eller koreografisk struktur. Charlotte Østergaards har i sin av

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/hon-blir-teaterhogskolans-forsta-doktor-inom-kostym - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 17 januari 2025 Pernilla August blev fakultetens hedersdoktor 2024, och kommer från och med 2025 att undervisa våra studenter på Skådespelarprogrammet. Pernilla är redan igång med arbetet, och har än så länge hunnit träffa våra skådespelartreor tillsammans med Einar Bredefeldt, tidigare student hos oss. Pernilla kommer att vara hos oss några tillfällen per termin framöver, bland annat m

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/pernilla-august-adjungerad-professor - 2025-08-09

Publicerad 22 januari 2025 Scenkonstbryggan är ett samverkansprojekt med Fridhems Folkhögskola för att väcka intresse för konstnärliga utbildningar som vi jobbat med sedan 2023. Målet med kvällskursen är att väcka nyfikenhet och intresse för scenkonst och för konstnärliga utbildningar och i ett längre perspektiv försöka öka mångfalden på konstnärliga utbildningar och svenska scener. Under hösten h

https://www.thm.lu.se/artikel/kvallskursen-scenkonstbryggan-fortsatter - 2025-08-09

Av amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - publicerad 10 februari 2025 ArtCollab är en plattform vid Lunds universitet som främjar samarbete mellan konst, vetenskap och samhälle. Syftet är att skapa en miljö där interdisciplinära metoder används för att förstå och hantera komplexa samhällsutmaningar.  Plattformen ska fungera som ett gränssnitt mellan konstnärer och

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Published 1 February 2017 The book "Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War" edited by Amarnath Amarasingam and Daniel Bass was recently published. The paperback is now available from Hurst in the UK and Oxford University Press in the US. Even though Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The S

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-book-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-08-09

Published 3 February 2017 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for papers for the fall 2017 issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives. The issue will explore the varied interpretations of masculine identity across Asia. Deadline is 3 April. This issue will provide a forum for exchange of the latest research on both historical and contemporary const

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-fall-issue-asia-pacific-perspectives - 2025-08-09

Published 4 February 2017 Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three conferences see

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-08-09

Published 7 February 2017 On 8 September 2017 The Annual Meeting of the South Asia Anthropology Group (SAAG) will be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. This year's theme is: Identity, Politics, and Resistance. The issue of identity has been at the heart of several important political developments and social movements over the past few years in South Asia. In India, critics argue

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-anthropology-group-saag-meeting-edinburgh - 2025-08-09

Published 27 February 2017 The 2017 Women in Asia (WIA) conference will be held at the University of Western Australia on 26-28 September. Deadline for submissions is 31 March 2017. The Women in Asia (WIA) Conference continues a tradition started by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Women’s Caucus (now Women’s Forum) in 1981.This will be the first time this Conference has been held

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/women-asia-conference-western-australia - 2025-08-09

Published 28 February 2017 A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, within the research project “Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives: Ritual Intersections and the Proscription of Religious Offense”. Application deadline is 13 March 2017. The Fellowship is funded by The Research Council of Norway, and the p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/post-doctoral-position-available-university-oslo - 2025-08-09

Published 15 February 2017 Photo from RAS Book launch of Bérénice Guyot-Réchard’s book: ‘Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910–1962’, at the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) on Thursday 2nd March, 18.30-21.00. Venue: The Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London. Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 196

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-royal-asiatic-society-london - 2025-08-09

Published 28 February 2017 Photo from Dnva On 7 March 2017, 18.00 Nicholas Sims-Williams will hold a lecture entitled: "From philology to history: Deciphering the language of ancient Afghanistan" at Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademin. Venue: Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Bactrian, the principal administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, fell out of use more than a tho

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/oslo-lecture-language-ancient-afghanistan - 2025-08-09

Published 28 February 2017 The Martin Institute and Program in International Studies at the University of Idaho invites applications for a new, visiting clinical faculty position beginning August 2017. The Martin Institute and Program in International Studies seek candidates whose professional experience and teaching interests focus on the Near East/South Asia (NESA) region and in one of our issue

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-university-idaho - 2025-08-09

Published 28 February 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has just published an article in the Conversation on Swedish immigration. According to Donald Trump Sweden is “having problems like they never thought possible” because of mass migration. But there is no evidence to support the American president’s claim. The crime rate is not affected by the immigration rate, and the Swedish state has actua

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-swedish-immigration - 2025-08-09

Published 28 February 2017 On February 9-10, SASNET successfully arranged a workshop about Online Hate in India and Sweden. The workshop was held at Media Evolution City in Malmö. The participants from India were: Karen Gabriel from Delhi University; Vibodh Parthasarathi from Jamia Millia Islamiya Univeristy, Delhi; Japreet Grewal and Zeenab Aneez from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalor

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-workshop-online-hate-india-and-sweden - 2025-08-09

Published 1 February 2017 On the 27th of January 2017, Shanta Wanninayake defended her PhD thesis at School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University in Sweden. Her thesis is entitled "Making a " Home": Internal Displacement and Resettlement Processes  in Sri Lanka 2003-2006". Opponent was professor Cahtrine Brun from Oxford Brookes University in UK. Go for the thesis. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/shanta-wanninayake-defended-her-phd-thesis-gothenburg-university - 2025-08-09

Published 2 March 2017 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 a

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/watch-lecture-tove-skutnabb-kangas-and-robert-philipson - 2025-08-09

Published 2 March 2017 On 31 May 2017 the 5th King's India Institute Graduate Conference will be held at King's College in London. This year's theme is Narratives of Indian Democracy. Deadline for submission of abstract is 15 March 2017. The conference organizers call for papers on the following themes:Democracy as a political vs. ethical project: How is the democratic project realised through rep

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/5th-kings-india-institute-graduate-conference - 2025-08-09

Published 7 March 2017 Photo from Ida-Sofie Matzen On Thursday 23 March 2017, 16.00 Ida Sofie Matzen held a lecture entitled: "Extremists of Love: Cosmological Activism among Pakistani Sufi Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan" at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The lecture was jointly organised by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and SASNET at Lund Unive

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/extremists-love-cosmological-activism-among-pakistani-sufi-muslims - 2025-08-09

Published 7 March 2017 SASNET is keeping a library at the Lund University office, with academic South Asia journals and a collection of 200 doctoral dissertations related to South Asia from the Nordic universities. SASNET has reorganised the library collections during some time but is now open for visitors again. Visit the library at Biskopsgatan 5. Visit the online library. If you have any questi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnets-south-asia-library-norlind-now-open - 2025-08-09