Published 24 January 2017 On Wednesday 15 February 2017, 10.00 an international multidisciplinary conference entitled ”South Asia: Past, Present and Future" will be held at the Department of History, Presidency University Kolkata in India. Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium. Home to one quarter of the world’s population, one of the most ancient civilizations, with religious, cultural and linguistic divers

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Published 30 January 2017 The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) with the theme: “Consuming Asia” on September 22-23, 2017 in Geneva, USA. NYCAS is a regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies.The NYCAS 2017 program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on all asp

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Published 29 January 2017 The University of Lahore together with a support from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) announces that the International Conference on Social Sciences in Service of Humanity 2017 is going to be held 12-13 April 2017 at the Sargodha Campus (The University of Lahore) in Sargodha, Pakistan. International Conferences promote international dissemination of knowledg

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Published 10 January 2017 The III CHAM International Conference will be held in Lisbon 12-15 July 2017, and its main theme is "Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environment". The call for papers and posters is now open. The call will close on 1st February at midnight (in Portugal). This third edition is part of CHAM's programme within the UNESCO Chair "The Oceans Cultural Heritage", won by C

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Published 30 January 2017 Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in collaboration with Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is holding an International Conference on Changing World Order: India and China in Contemporary Times 14-15 April 2017. Conference Venue: JNU, New Delhi, India. The aim of the two day Conference is to relook at the current relations betwe

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Published 30 January 2017 A Three Day PhD and Early Career Academic Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Contexts will be hold in New Delhi on 24th -26th May 2017. Venue: Willow, Habitat World, at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The workshop aims to encapsulate some of the most recent cutting-edge discussions emerging in the fields of international development studies and social po

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Published 1 February 2017 On Friday 10 February 2017, 8.00-9.30 SASNET together with Media Evolution invites you to a morning with conversation about how professional roles and workplace is reshaping and how we can find ways to work toward a kinder Internet. Venue: Media Evolution City, Stora Varvsgatan 6A, 211 19 Malmö. What can one of the world's most connected countries - Sweden - learn from on

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Published 6 February 2017 On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarised world where-in stereotypes, broad generalizations and

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Published 8 February 2017 Andreas Johansson with Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda, PhD Scholars from School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, visited SASNET's office. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda are Erasmus + Visiting Doctoral Fellows at School of Social Work, Lund University from Jan, 2017 till May, 2017.Rishi Jha's doctoral thesis

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Published 8 February 2017 The South Asia Collective produces the annual South Asia State of Minorities Report, on the condition of minorities in each country in the region and the quality of state provisioning for them. The South Asia Collective released their inaugural 2016 report regionally in Kathmandu in November last year and are releasing it globally at UN Human Rights Council's upcoming mee

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Published 8 February 2017 On the 16th of December 2016, Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Murad Altamash is from Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine Karachi in Pakistan and his thesis is entitled: "Periodontal conditions and treatment outcomes for subjects with diabetes mellitus : special emphasis on HbA1c levels and T-cells". Go for the thesis. 

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Published 8 February 2017 The scholarship application period has now started for The Lund University Global Scholarship and the deadline to apply is 15 February. Are you a non-EU/EEA student who applied to autumn 2017 Bachelor’s or Master’s studies? Check if you are eligible to apply for the Lund University Global Scholarship. The scholarship is merit-based and selective and can cover a part of or

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Published 11 February 2017 The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID's major objective is to facilitate social empowerment

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Published 13 February 2017 The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University of Economics (Poland). AbstractSince the late 20th cen

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Published 18 February 2017 SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere in the South Asia region, but the students should hav

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2025-04-15

Published 18 February 2017 For the third year, SASNET invites researchers at Lund University to apply for a one month position (”ansökningsmånad”) at SASNET in which to prepare a research application with a South Asian focus. The purpose is to promote more South Asia-related research at Lund University. Members of all faculties and disciplines at the University are invited. The salary will range t

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Published 21 February 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo published an article in the Conversation on Afghan asylum seekers. When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the West [...]. Read more. 

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Published 24 February 2017 On Thursday 23 February 2017 SASNET met up with this year's participants of the Swedish Institute's Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) Programme at Media Evolution City in Malmö, Sweden. What is the relation between responsible leadership, social change and creativity? How can society tackle the growing trend of populism, polarization and hate speeches while still keep

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Published 24 February 2017 On 14 March 2017, 16.15-18.00 The Network for Asian Studies' (Asianettverket) at University of Oslo will hold its Annual Lecture 2017: "Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1969". Venue: Morgenstiernes hus, Arne Næss auditorium, Blindern, Oslo. This year, Andrew G. Walder from Stanford University offers new insights into the Cultural Revolution in China. In the first

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Published 16 May 2018 The book "Strategic Communication: An introduction" by Jesper Falkheimer and Mats Heide, both researchers at the Department of Strategic Communication, was released last winter. Last week, the website PR Place wrote a praising review on the book, which of course is great news for the Department. The review tells us, among other things: "It is an admirable text that brings tog

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