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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Asian Dynamics Initiative at University of Copenhagen announces its 8th annual international ADI conference to be held 20-22 June 2016. The theme for the 2016 ADI conference will be Asia across historical time and space in a global context. It will take place over three days and feature distinguished keynote speak

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/historical-time-and-space-focus-2016-asian-dynamics-initiative-conference - 2026-08-15

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 new questions about democracy, human rights and freed

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/protests-and-prospects-understanding-bangladeshs-political-unrest - 2026-08-15

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,

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lu-researchers-riya-raphael-and-sanjib-saha-receive-sasnet-grants-south-asia-focused-projects - 2026-08-15

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-now-sasnet-travel-grants-spring-2025 - 2026-08-15

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)

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/official-sasnet-spring-semester-program - 2026-08-15

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/power-plays-multipolar-world-mapping-indias-global-game - 2026-08-15

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 - 2026-08-15

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2026-08-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/karlstad-conference-women-activism-and-politics-sweden-and-india - 2026-08-15

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/apply-now-south-asia-travel-grants-lu-master-and-doctoral-students - 2026-08-15

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 - 2026-08-15

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

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fainaz-inamdeen-awarded-2025-sasnet-phd-travel-grant - 2026-08-15

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 - 2026-08-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 cha

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/first-annual-bridge-summit-lund-find-solutions-major-challenges - 2026-08-15

On September 17, SASNET hosted a lecture with Erik Törner (Svalorna Indien Bangladesh) at Lund City Library, exploring India’s rapid economic growth and the inequalities that remain. In his lecture, Erik Törner, who has worked in international development for more than 25 years, presented an overview of India’s economic rise alongside the social challenges that persist. He described the country’s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indias-economic-miracle-why-not-everyone-included - 2026-08-15

We hereby announce that the Best South Asia Thesis Award of 2024/2025 is granted Fatima Ali Shah for her excellent and impressive thesis "From Ashes to Access: A Dual-Framework Formative Evaluation of the Super Seeder Subsidy in Faisalabad, Pakistan". Since 2022, SASNET annualy grants a Lund University student the Best South Asia Thesis Award for an excellent Bachelor or Master thesis in the human

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fatima-ali-shah-granted-best-south-asia-thesis-award-20242025 - 2026-08-15

Welcome to a seminar co-organised by SASNET and the PhD community at the Department of Political Science 27 January 2026 13:15 to 14:30. Tushar Joshi is a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne and will be staying at the Department of Political Science, Lund University during the period December to March as a holder of a "GloHub Doctoral Student Mobility Grant". Strategic Culture and Fore

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-seminar-tushar-joshi-strategic-culture-and-foreign-policy-behaviour-bjp-and-rss-influence - 2026-08-15

On 9 and 10 April 2026, SASNET is organising a workshop on the theme 'Authoritarianism and Democratic Resurgence in South Asia' at Lund University. We hereby invite PhD students and postdoctoral researchers based at European universities to send us a paper proposal by 9 January 2026. Please, send us an abstract-length description of the paper and a CV. Send these to ted [dot] svensson [at] svet [d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/invitation-workshop-theme-authoritarianism-and-democratic-resurgence-south-asia-lund-university - 2026-08-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, - Developme

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fifth-young-south-asia-scholars-meet-workshop-be-held-gottingen - 2026-08-15

SASNET will, beginning in February, host a new online seminar series on the theme anti-caste thinking as political theory. The seminar series will be convened by Rajat Roy (Presidency University) and Ted Svensson (Lund University). The ambition is to invite scholars who through their work address and analyse the nuances of various expressions of anti-caste thinking to the seminar series in order t

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-sasnet-seminar-series-anti-caste-thinking-political-theory - 2026-08-15