Published 13 May 2017 For the Spring semester 2016, SASA awarded travel grant to Otso Harju, Masters student in Asian Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, for the fieldwork for his Master thesis. The work took place in New Delhi in the spring of 2016. The thesis has now been published. During his fieldwork in the Indian capital, Harju interviewed ten young middle-class femi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-student-published-paper-domestic-workers-delhi - 2025-04-17

Published 15 May 2017 On May 11, 2017 at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the European Institute of Japanese Studies organized a networking day focusing on Asia. The director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson attended the one-day event. The motive for the conference was to “finding everyone in Sweden focusing on Asia for a network event”. The focus

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/asia-networking-day-stockholm - 2025-04-17

Published 17 May 2017 Call for papers for the eighth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control, and Telecommunication Technologies - ACT 2017 will be held 18-19 August, 2017 in Mumbai, India. Last date of paper submission is 15 June 2017. ACT 2017, aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Computer Science, Control Engin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-act-conference-2017 - 2025-04-17

Published 17 May 2017 The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme. The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars (postdoc) as well as from leading senior researchers. The deadline for application is June 7th, 2017. The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-eurias-fellowship-programme - 2025-04-17

Published 17 May 2017 Did you know that SASNET has a Twitter account ? Follow and join discussions on hashtag #SASNET. Go to the Twitter account. 

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Published 29 May 2017 An article on HBTQ in Bhutan entitled "The silence is broken- Passang Dorji is the first public gay in Bhutan", written by Elina Vidarsson from SASNET, has today been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish).  Sydasien (South Asia) is the only Swedish online magazine that reports culturally and politically from the region o

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-hbtq-bhutan - 2025-04-17

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 12 May 2017 McGill University's Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC) welcomes submissions for its Graduate Conference on Indian Ocean World History. The conference will be held 20 October 2017. The deadline to submit is 10 June 2017. The IOWC is a McGill Research Centre dedicated to international collaborative s

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-iowc-graduate-conference - 2025-04-17

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 17 May 2017 Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite and the National University of Singapore will hold a two-day conference in Singapore 16-17 November 2017, on the trajectory of the Russian Revolution in Asia, broadly defined to include the Asian territories of the Russian Empire as well as Northeast, South and Sout

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-arc-russian-revolution - 2025-04-17

By elina-maria [dot] vidarsson [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Elina Vidarsson) - published 19 May 2017 Call for papers for the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA) Conference 2017. The Conference will be held 27-29 November in Dunedin, New Zealand. Deadline for papers submission is 30 June 2017. In line with NZASIA's key objectives, their biennial conference is multidisciplinary and aims at

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-asian-studies - 2025-04-17

Published 20 May 2017 Call for papers for publication in Asia in Focus - A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers- Issue 5, Winter 2017. Deadline for paper submission is 21 August 2017. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Asia in Focus was initiated by NIAS to provide Master students and Ph.D. students affi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus - 2025-04-17

Published 21 May 2017 Habib University invites paper and panel submissions for the Questioning South Asia Conference to be hold 22-24 November 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan. Deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2017. The geopolitical significance of South Asia has been a well-known fact in policy and security studies for the last several decades. In academic circles too, the logic of South Asia

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-south-asia-conference-karachi-pakistan - 2025-04-17

Published 14 May 2017 On Tuesday 9 May 2017, Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg held a lecture entitled: "Child marriages in India: Human Rights Violations that go unchecked" at LUX B152. The lecture was jointly organized by Human Rights Studies and SASNET at Lund University. The lecture was recorded and has been published at SASNET's Youtube Channel. Abstract: Child marriages even when they have cult

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-human-rights-violations-go-unchecked - 2025-04-17

Published 30 May 2017 The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations based in London (AKU-ISMC) is inviting experienced scholars to join the Institute as a visiting scholar within the 2017-2018 academic year. Deadline to submit application is 15 June 2017. The Institute is looking to host two categories of visiting scholars. Between September and December 2017 the Instit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-visiting-scholars-aga-khan-university - 2025-04-17

Published 2 June 2017 The 5th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Indian Interdisciplinary Studies AEEII will be held 29 November - 1 December 2017, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Deadline to submit paper is 20 June 2017. Acts of injustice in or with the Indian subcontinent have been committed by previous generations in institutional, social, political or familiar contex

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-aeeii-conference-barcelona - 2025-04-17

Published 28 March 2025 CMES scholars gathered for a productive and insightful research retreat on writing research applications. Eighteen CMES scholars gathered at the MaryHill Estate, just outside Glumslöv, for a two-day research retreat focused on fostering collaboration and sharing valuable lessons in writing research applications.Throughout the retreat, participants discussed different types

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-retreat-art-writing-successful-research-applications - 2025-04-17

Published 31 March 2025 CMES Researcher Ronny Berndtsson has co-authored an article for Journal of Hazardous Materials about drinking water quality and pollution sources near a mine in Iran. AbstractWater sources near mining regions are often susceptible to contamination from toxic elements. This study employs machine learning  techniques to evaluate drinking water quality and identify pollution s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assessment-drinking-water-quality-and-identifying-pollution-sources-chromite-mining-region - 2025-04-17

Published 31 March 2025 Application deadline: 19 May 2025. We are looking for a historian holding a doctoral degree and specialising in Middle Eastern history who is at the beginning of their career. This is a 4 year fixed-term position.The successful candidate will divide their time between The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Department of History. The Department of Hist

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-associate-senior-lecturer-history-specialisation-middle-eastern-history - 2025-04-17

Published 1 April 2025 A recent CMES workshop aimed to explore how the Gulf States have been responding to regional crises. Last week, on March 25-26, CMES hosted an engaging workshop at The Old Bishop's House in Lund, Sweden. The theme of the event was “Regionalisation of Crisis Response: Political Shifts and Humanitarian Priorities of the Gulf States”, and it brought together 16 participants fro

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-explores-regionalisation-crisis-response-gulf-states - 2025-04-17

Published 2 April 2025 Read the March CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming E

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-50 - 2025-04-17

Published 3 April 2025 CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has co-edited a new book about Turkey and its unresolved issues. The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and BeyondEditors: Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin HünlerThe book is now available as an open access publication and can be read here.About Pinar DincPinar Dinc has a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government at th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/republic-turkey-and-its-unresolved-issues-100-years-and-beyond - 2025-04-17