Published 25 April 2017 Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History is offering a PhD Position in ‘Negotiating Conversion and Family Law in Eighteenth Century Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka’. Deadline is May 28, 2017. From September 1, 2017, the Leiden University Institute for History will be appointing a PhD for a four-year period, within the NWO financed project “Colonialism inside

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Published 22 April 2017 Photo: Harvard University The Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, seeks applications for a preceptor in Sanskrit. Deadline for submission is May 12, 2017. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2017. The preceptor will be responsible for language instruction and course development at all levels and across all genres and time periods of Sanskrit. The

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Published 21 April 2017 The Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM) call for papers for its 2018 conference. The conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17th June, 2018. Submit applications before 30th September 2017. Y-SASM provides a platform for young scholars working on South Asia to present their work and to ensue fruitful discussions and debates.The theme for the conference in 2

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Published 20 April 2017 Papers are invited for the 5th International Congress of Bengal Studies scheduled to be held during 25th – 28th January, 2018. The 5th Congress will be hosted by Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Last date for submission of abstract is 15th May, 2017. Papers, in English or Bengali, on all areas of Bengal Studies, including, but not limited to, Literature a

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Published 19 April 2017 The Master of Arts Health and Society in South Asia (MAHASSA) is a two-year degree, focusing on Medical Anthropology and South Asian Studies. It is integrated with the curriculum at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute. The application deadline for international students is June 15th, 2017. MAHASSA combines Medical Anthropology with South Asian Studies. Medical Anth

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Published 18 April 2017 The conference entitled: “Challenging Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora: A Global Conference on Diaspora Studies and Policies.” will be held at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands from 5 to 7 October 2017. Submit abstract before 30 May 2017. In this international conference the organizers would like to broaden the scope on the Indian

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Published 17 April 2017 The Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany invite applications for two doctoral positions for the duration of three years under the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship programme. This is part of the Global India project of European Training Network (ETN H2020). The Global India ETN will deliver a world-class multi-sectoral

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Published 26 April 2017 The 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference entitled: "Environmental Asia"will be held 20-22 November 2017 in Oslo, Norway. The conference is jointly organized by the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at Oslo University and the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS). The conference will be combined with a PhD course 23-24 November. Deadline f

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Published 17 April 2017 The Center of History at Sciences Po Paris invites applications for a position of full Professor in the history of Asia. This position aims at reinforcing the international development of the Center of history at Sciences Po. All areas of research in the history of Asia are concerned, with a preference for the political history of the 20th century, understood in the broades

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Published 16 April 2017 The Nepal Study Center is pleased to announce the Himalayan Policy Research Conference to be held on October 26, 2017, in Madison, Wisconsin, at the pre-conference venue of the University of Wisconsin's 46th Annual Conference on South Asia (October 26-29, 2017). The conference organizers invite abstract of research, recently completed or in progress, in the field of develop

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Published 20 April 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Conversation on How immigration detention compares around the world. Since the 1980s, all major Western states practice what they call civil or administrative confinement of undocumented immigrants and non-citizens. But this practice of putting undocumented immigrants – as well as asylum seekers – in detention ce

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Published 29 April 2017 The North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will hold a conference 1-2 February 2018 in New Delhi, India. The conference theme is: "Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries". The last date of abstract submission is 15 July, 2017. The idea of frontiers, borders and borderlands have historically constituted important

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Published 27 April 2017 Call for applications for Ph.D. course entitled: "Forging Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and beyond" to be held 18-22 September, 2017 at University of Oslo in Norway. The course is organised by The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo. Application deadline is 2 May, 2017. The cour

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Published 29 April 2017 The Government of Sri Lanka is calling for applications for the Presidential Scholarships for Foreign Students for the academic year 2016/2017. Last date for submission of application is 8 May 2017. Government of Sri Lanka Presidential Scholarships programme for Foreign Students implemented by the Ministry of Higher Education and Highways has been in operation for six years

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Published 29 April 2017 Lund University is a member of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI). Scholars and representatives of the member universities have the opportunity to stay at the Director's residence in Delhi. The Centre is a consortium of leading universities and research institutions in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It was established in 2001 with the objective to facilitate co

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Published 5 May 2017 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on how American education and incarceration have become entangled, entitled: "Shades of the prison-house" in the Times Literary Supplement. After Donald Trump won the United States presidential election, stock prices increased for CoreCivic and the Geo Group, two of the largest private prison companies. As unpredictable as

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Published 4 May 2017 Full house May 3rd when more than 70 people came and listened to Jan-Inge Bengtsson, who talked about the art of afghan carpets at Lunds konsthall. The lecture was organised by SASNET in collaboration with Lunds konsthall and ABF. Jan-Inge Bengtsson, active in SAK (The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan), showed carpets for the audience and explained the history, work and meani

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Published 8 May 2017 A conflict simulation involving the current conflict and proxy war in Syria and Iraq, originally developed as a teaching resource for the MA in Middle Eastern Studies run by CMES, is being transformed into an interactive short simulation course that will eventually be available to schools and organizations in Sweden and beyond. It is envisaged that the course, currently develo

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Published 10 May 2017 SAARC International Conference on “Buddhist Cultural Trails: Journey Through Time & Space, of Merchants, Monks & Pilgrims, Reconciliation of the South Asian Region with the Exchange of Information” will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka 25-27 August 2017. The Buddhist Cultural Trail conference will be the first in a series of Conferences and workshops planned on “Cultural Trails”

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Published 7 May 2017 Dr. Dag Erik Berg, Research Fellow from the Diversity & Inequality Research Group at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has published a new article entitled: "Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy" in the Journal of International Relations and Development. Abstract: This article explain

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