Published 6 December 2024 Patrick Nitzschner on his dissertation and external reviewer Professor Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin. Patrick Nitzschner has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Defending what is yet to come: Towards a critical theory of democratic defense'. Congratulations! AbstractCertainty about the robustness of democracy has given way to a widely diagnosed crisis of d

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Published 10 December 2024 The world is facing several crises in terms of water quality, quantity, and safety. Policy measures to date focus on a 'business as usual' approach that prioritises economic and/or green growth. But measures that prioritize growth largely fail. A group of some of the world's most prominent water scientists highlights the crucial role that policy capture has played. They

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-04-03

By alva [dot] martensson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Alva Mårtensson) - published 12 December 2024 Alexander Ryan and Jonathan Polk. Hatred towards political opponents can be more polarizing than policy differences – and populism is shaping the erosion of support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. Professor Jonathan Polk and Dr. Alexander Ryan delivered a lecture in December on what divides vo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/affective-polarization-populism-and-european-party-support-ukraine - 2025-04-03

Published 16 December 2024 In this study we elaborate the trade-off between pre-training models on domain-specific data versus a more general dataset in a political context. We start from motions from parliamentarians in the Swedish Riksdag, and focus on the two competitors for government office parties: Social Democrats and Moderates. Elaborating word embeddings on central keywords related to iss

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/matter-pre-training-political-studies-more-data-better-domain-specific-new-study-shows - 2025-04-03

Published 13 January 2025 Isak Svensson, Uppsala University and Isabel Bramsen, Lund University. ❔ Who is best positioned for mediation and negotiation efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine? ❔ When should such diplomatic efforts be launched? ❔ How should the processes of peace talks be designed? These are some of the questions examined in a new article by Isabel Bramsen from our departme

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Published 21 January 2025 In a new open-access article published in Review of International Studies, Jakob Skovgaard explores how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has integrated climate risks into its surveillance of countries’ economies and policies. This integration involves reframing climate as an economic issue and assessing countries' actions to address: Physical risks of climate change,

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Published 22 November 2017 The department of History at The Wagner College seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of South Asia, Africa or the Middle East and the history of Islam to begin Fall 2018. Teaching requirements include introductory Global History survey course, as well as upper-level courses on Africa, the Middle East or South Asia and Islam.  Candidates are expected to

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Published 30 November 2017 The peer-reviewed journal "Asia in Focus", published online twice a year by NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, is now seeking full papers for its sixth issue. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2018. Asia in Focus provides Master students and Ph.D. students affiliated to a European institution a widely accessible and transnational forum to publish their fi

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Published 30 November 2017 The Department of History at Reed College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, with a specialization in modern or early modern African, Middle Eastern, or South Asian history. This is a one-year position with a possibility for renewal. In addition to teaching courses in their own area, the appointee may also contribute to the

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-visiting-assistant-professor-south-asian-history - 2025-04-03

Published 30 November 2017 Photo: LUMS Call for Papers for LUMS Annual Conference on Courts and Politics in Pakistan to be held on 14-15 March 2018. The conference is jointly organized by the Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) and the Shaikh Ahmed Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL). The conference will focus on the role of higher courts in dealing with cases concern

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Published 21 November 2017 On Wednesday 8 November Amrita Ghosh held a seminar entitled: "Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan" at the Department of Gender Studies. The seminar was organized by the Department of Gender Studies and SASNET. Her seminar focused on a Partition film titled, Silent Waters (2003) and argued that it subverts patriarchal religio-nati

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/interesting-seminar-womens-agency-post-partition-pakistan - 2025-04-03

Published 30 November 2017 On Thursday 23 November SASA representative Phu Doma Lama Ph.D student from the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, held a talk entitled: “Exploring the consequences of adaptation to changes: The case of mobility and gender in Maldives” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The event was organized by SASA. Abstract her talk: Communities in Maldives have

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/important-talk-mobility-and-gender-maldives - 2025-04-03

Published 6 December 2017 Photo: Wikimedia The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in South Asian, Southeast Asian or Chinese history, beginning Fall semester 2018. The rank will be Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor depending on qualifications. Candidates should have or be close to completing the Ph.D. Teachin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/one-year-visiting-position-available-south-asian-history - 2025-04-03

Published 6 December 2017 The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, invites applications for its Conference "India @ 70 Memories and Histories" to be held 3-4 January 2018. India celebrated the 70th year of its Independence on 15th August 2017. Celebratory national histories, in their enthusiasm to commemorate the giant strides made by the Indian nation in the last seven d

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-memories-and-histories - 2025-04-03

Published 13 December 2017 On Saturday 9 December 2017, 14-17 Kino screened the movie 'Parched' followed by a conversation with Maria Tonini and Sarah Bodelson. Almost 200 people showed up to watch the movie! The event was organized by SASNET/SASA in collaboration with Kino, Swallows India Bangladesh and ABC. ‘PARCHED’ is a story about women set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Rajasthan

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Published 18 December 2017 Photo: Leiden University In June 2018 Leiden University will host a two day conference - Modalities of Displacement - that will discuss 'displacement' in its multiple vectors and possibilities. The conference is jointly organized by the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), the Anthropology Department, and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leide

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Published 14 December 2017 Photo: IIAS Brill Academic Publishing, the International Institute for Asian Studies, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Leiden University invite submissions from scholars in area studies, social sciences, humanities, law, computer sciences, and from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to the 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia (DIAS) conference, to be held in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 29

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Published 18 December 2017 Photo: Ambedkar University Ambedkar University calls for papers for conference on "Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities" to be held 25-26 October 2018 in New Delhi, India. Northeast India, located on India's periphery, is a region whose socio-cultural world exhibits more similarities with Southeast Asia region than with that of South Asia. Such perc

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-northeast-india-and-southeast-asia - 2025-04-03

Published 4 January 2018 On Thursday 18 January 16.15 Professor Nishi Mitra vom Berg, will hold a talk entitled: “Universities as Workplace: Gender Discrimination and Work-Life Balance.” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund). The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! Prof Nishi Mitra vom Berg from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-gender-discriminations-universities-india-brazil-and-south-africa - 2025-04-03

Published 9 January 2018 During November 2017, the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, traveled to Colombo to look into the possibility of establishing a new SASNET study center in South Asia. He met with several research institutions and discussed possibilities for collaborations. All of the institutions that Andreas met with expressed a wish to collaborate with SASNET. In the end a very fruit

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-and-american-institute-sri-lankan-studies-sign-agreement - 2025-04-03