SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published a brief in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Occasional Paper Series entitled "The impact of forced migration on Afghanistan's domestic politics and foreign relations". The brief was first presented as a working paper at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read the brief here 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/brief-impact-forced-migration-afghanistans-domestic-politics-and-foreign-relations - 2025-08-29

On international women's day March 8, 17.00-20.00, there will be a film Screening of the movie India’s Daughter at Stora Algatan 4 International Desk at Lund University. The event is open to everyone and as usual we will serve fika! India's Daughter narrates the story of an ordinary girl with an extremely cruel life experience which broke the silence around rape culture in Indian society. This is

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/film-screening-indias-daughter - 2025-08-29

The complete SASNET Work Report 2015 (Verksamhetsberättelse) was published on 29 February 2016. It contains an extensive summary of the work being done by SASNET at Lund University in 2015, in Swedish. An impressive amount of activities have been carried out, including a major research conference in May, and two South Asia Media Project workshops in the fall.An external evaluation of SASNET was al

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-work-report-2015-published - 2025-08-29

On Wednesday 25 April 13.00-15-00 SASNET is hosting a seminar on the Afghan Shia: Politics, Piety, and Diaspora in LUX Building, B417. Welcome! Robert D. Crews The talk by Robert D. Crews, Professor of History at Stanford University, examines the revolutionary politics of Shi’i communities in Afghanistan and the diaspora from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the emergence of new forms of po

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/seminar-afghan-shia-politics-piety-and-diaspora - 2025-08-29

On Friday 16, 09.00-10.30, there will be a lecture on Indian independent documentary at Gamla Kirurgen, floor 3 at Lund University. The event is a collaboration with School of Journalism and the event is open to everyone. The documentary participant is largely a site of anxiety, viewed through the discourse of documentary image ethics and its construction of moral obligations between filmmaker and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-indian-independent-documentary - 2025-08-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in openDemocracy which discusses the evidence for a populist myth about immigration courts and public opinion. Read the articel here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-populist-myth-about-immigration-courts-and-public-opinion - 2025-08-29

On Tuesday 3 April 16.00-17.30 SASNET is pleased to invite everyone for the launch of the new book Miraklet Indien och dess baksida. The book is edited by former SASNET employees Lars Eklund and Staffan Lindberg at Eden 131, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund University. The event is open to the public. Indian delights will be served! With contributions from, among others, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilse

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-launch-miraklet-indien-och-dess-baksida - 2025-08-29

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article on Afghan asylum seekers in Sweden in the journal Nidaba: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies.  The aricle can be accessed here:

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-article-nidaba - 2025-08-29

The Nordic Centre in India announces two new grants for its member universities. NCI will be supporting collaborative academic activities between member universities and Indian higher educational institutions through Academic Activity Grants that will be announced twice a year NCI will also support travel grants to India. As Lund University is a member of NCI employees at our university can apply

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-nci-grants - 2025-08-29

Andreas Johansson, researcher and head of SASNET, was interviewed by Utrikes Magasinet about the role of religion in the Maldives, including what this development means for Maldivian democracy. Read the interview here (in Swedish)

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/religion-maldives - 2025-08-29

On March 22 the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, took part of Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) program elections committee. Andreas helped select candidates from Sri Lanka and Pakistan for the 2018 program, which will kick off in September. The program YCF is a part of the Swedish institute (SI).“YCF aims to support young leaders in South Asia by giving them the tools and methods they ne

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-involved-young-connectors-future-program - 2025-08-29

On March 27 the director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, visited Karlstad University (KAU) to discuss possibilities for future collaboration. SASNET is keen on working together with KAU since it has, since 1995, been collaborating with various institutions in India. Andreas meet with Katarina Plank and Kristian Niemi (picture) and dissucssed KAU:sa study center at Varanasi and collaborates with Bana

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/visit-karlstad-university - 2025-08-29

On Monday 9 April 15.00-17.00 there will be a lecture on the forms of colonial authority along the external frontier of British India, l in Edens hörsal, Paradisgatan 5H. Welcome. Benjamin D. Hopkins is a specialist in modern South Asian history, in particular that of Afghanistan, as well as British imperialism. His research focuses on the role of the colonial state in creating the modern states i

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-colonial-authority-and-british-india - 2025-08-29

The magazine Sydasien (www.sydasien.se) is an important channel for spreading news and analyses about South Asia in the Swedish language. Sydasien was founded in 1977. First appearing in print, Sydasien transitioned into an online-only format in 2011. sydasien_2_2017_korrutskrift_7.pdf  Through a new collaboration between Sydasien and SASNET the magazine once again appears in print, this time bian

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-issue-sydasien-now-available - 2025-08-29

On Tuesday 15 May 11.00-12.00 there will be a seminar on the role of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal area in villa Norlind, Biskopsgatan 5. Welcome. The talk is held by Dr. Naheed S. Goraya, and she is currently a Visiting Post Doc at V-Dem/Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. She is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-role-pakistan-federally-administered-tribal-areas - 2025-08-29

On 14-15 April SASNET hosted a workshop on Nationalisms in South Asia. The workshop was generously funded by the Crafoord Foundation. Professor Frank Korom (Boston University), Associate Professor Jan Magnusson (Lund University) and the director of SASNET Andreas Johansson took the lead in organizing the workshop.  The core idea of the workshop builds on a generation of scholarship arguing that na

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-hosted-workshop-nationalisms-south-asia - 2025-08-29

The 2016 general call for applications to the Swedish Research Council(Vetenskapsrådet) for Project Research Grants for most subject areas. Humanities & Social Sciences; Medicine & Health; Artistic Research; and Culture & Cutural Heritage Research – closes on Tuesday 15 March. For research in Economics and Natural Sciences, the deadline is Tuesday 5 April.Of even more interest to South Asia relate

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/time-apply-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-29

On Tuesday 8 May 15.00-17.00 there will be a talk on post-war Sri Lanka at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (seminar room), Finngatan 16. Welcome. The talk is held by Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara. Dr. Gurnasekara is a Sri Lankan researcher, affiliated with the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) that studies particular entanglements of gender and conflict in rapidly changing situations in the Sout

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/talk-post-war-sri-lanka - 2025-08-29

The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (ACAA) and SASNET welcomes you to a two-day conference on the situation for Afghan refugees in Sweden. The conference will take place in May 11-12, LUX Aula 3 Helgonavägen, Lund. This conference will discuss the current situation in Afghanistan, challenges faced by returning refugees and how Sweden can support refugees who return to Afghanistan. We wil

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-situation-afghan-refugees-sweden - 2025-08-29

On Friday 27 April 13.00-16.00 there will be a workshop on covering the political election in India. The workshop is held at School of Journalism (Journalistutbildningen), Gamla Kirurgen, floor 3. Welcome. In 2019, the world's largest democracy India will hold its 17th general election, where over 20 political parties and as many as a 4000 candidates will try to grab a seat in India's Lower House

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/workshop-how-cover-indian-elections - 2025-08-29