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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isha Dubey discusses in her piece the recent court ruling on the dispute over the land of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, which was violently demolished 27 years ago. Read the full article here.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-conversation - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. #Rethinkingpopulism aims to facilitate dialogues and discussions on the various meanings of populism in current day societies. #Rethinkingpopulism brings together scholars from various backgrounds to explore populist phenomena around the globe and foster critical dialogue. It is a joint initiative by Lund University,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-supports-rethinking-populism-platform-opendemocracy - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Shripad Dharmadhikary came to Lund in early December and held a number of lectures and interactive sessions at various departments of Lund University. SASNET was honoured to welcome Shripad Dharmadhikary from Pune, India. He was a full-time activist for 12 years with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Moveme
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-water-expert-and-activist-visited-sasnet - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Centre in India announced its upcoming summer courses for 2020 in various locations in India. NCI welcomes applications for the following three summer courses taking place in India between May and August 2020:Gender and Society in Contemporary India University of Hyderabad, July 13th to August 8th, 2020This
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nci-summer-courses-2020 - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isha Dubey explores the nature of the communal violence that occurred in Bihar in 1946 against the backdrop of the ‘escalating’ communal tensions during the 1930-1940s. Abstract:The year 1937 saw the establishment of Congress Ministries in eight of the eleven provinces in which the provincial elections had been held,
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-publishes-article-journal-royal-asiatic-society - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The summer School will take place in May 2020 at the LU Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety and offers training in developing gender-inclusive designs in response, recovery, and preparedness. From the Lund University Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety website:"After the success of the first s
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-co-organises-summer-school-gender-and-risk - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Orwa Ajjoub will be with us for the next 3 months, working on a report about the future of IS and al-Qaeda, also in the context of South Asia. Orwa Ajjoub is an affiliated researcher at SASNET. In 2018, Orwa graduated from Lund University with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Interested in Islamic theology and politic
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-welcomes-new-researcher - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sanr-conference-2020-call-papers - 2026-10-07
Over 1,300 people have applied for the 25 positions advertised in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Among the candidates are researchers from world-leading universities such as Harvard and Oxford.“The initiative has generated great interest among highly qualified researchers,” says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University.The call for applications refers to 1
The University Board needs a new teaching staff representative due to a retirement. As a staff member, you now have the opportunity to propose a colleague to the Electoral College, which is responsible for the nomination. The nomination period is from 3 September to 22 September.One of the three teaching staff representatives on the University Board, Lars Dahlin, is retiring and his place on the U
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/propose-new-teaching-staff-representative-university-board-election - 2026-10-07
The application period is open from 28 August to 17 September.Researchers, doctoral students, lecturers or readers at Lund University can apply for the faculties’ travel and research grants. A few are also open to undergraduate students including Master’s students.Learn more on LU Staff Pages
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/apply-faculty-travel-and-research-grants - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Initi
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-report-south-asia-initiative-eu-india-relations-africa - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 worldwid
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-corona-virus-india - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-al-qaeda-and-afghan-peace-talks - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 (1920-20
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-post-doc-presented-conference-bangladesh - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-podcast-episode-corona-pandemic-and-indian-economy - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 St
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/latest-sasnet-podcast-episode-covid-19-and-fake-news-india - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 assign
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/last-weeks-podcast-covid-19-nepal - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-supported-intl-conference-fermented-foods-india - 2026-10-07
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 chal
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sweden-south-asia-media-project - 2026-10-07
