On April 23 SASNET organized a panel discussion on statebuilding in Afghanistan in a global context. The panel consisted of Professor Robert Crews (Stanford University), Anna-Karin Johansson (formed General Secretary of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan), Dr. Admir Skodo (SASNET, Lund University), and Professor Sari Kuovo (Gothenburg University and Afghanistan Analysts Network). The panel was

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-statebuilding-afghanistan-global-context - 2025-08-29

SASNET Driector Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation on violent Buddhism in Sri Lanka. The article is entitled "Violent Buddhist extremists are targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka". Read the articel here

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New article (In Swedish) in Sydasien by SASNET researcher Admir Skodo. Read it here

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On May 7, SASNET researcher Admir Skodo participated in a panel discussion at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on the challenges to democracy facing Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, two countries with the experience of internal conflict and civil war. The other panelist was Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara, Executive Director, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. Henrik Chetan Aspengren, assoc

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On May 2, SASNET researcher Admir Skodo participated in a panel discussion in Malmö organized by Refugees Welcome-Sweden/KOD on the erosion of the right of asylum. The other panelists were Patricia Olsson Escalante (immigration attorney), Beatrice Rundström (activist with InEUmanity). The panel discussion was moderated by Ehsan Noorozi You can watch video clips from the panel (in Swedish) here 

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Division of Risk Management and Societal Resilience, LTH, Lund University and SASNET invites you to apply for a Summer School 17-21 September 2018 on Gender, Disasters and Climate Risk. With risks posed by extreme weather events and climate-induced disasters placed on top spots on the list of Global risks, achieving well-being and security for all becomes a challenge. The challenge arises due to t

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SASNET received funding from the Crafoord Foundation to organize a workshop next year The workshop is entitled “The domestic, Regional and Global Impact of Afghan Migration” and will be held in the beginning of 2019.  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-received-funding-crafoord-foundation - 2025-08-29

India is currently the fastest growing economy in the world, representing a market of 1.25 billion people, and an emerging global power. Since the late 1990s India has slowly shifted its foreign policy priorities in order to further its emergence as a prominent actor in global affairs. This shift was not easy after decades of great reluctance to act internationally. India is now increasingly pursu

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-almedalen-why-india-important-europe - 2025-08-29

On June 5-6, the South Asia Across the Nordic Region second annual meeting was held at the University of Oslo. The two-day meeting covered discussions on how to move the network forward as well as different paper panels on South Asian topics. The workshop started with a keynote lecture by Professor Knut Jacobsen from the University of Bergen. His lecture was entitled “Ancient Yoga in the Modern Wo

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SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article (in Swedish) on migration and the Afghan state. The article is entitled "Välutbildade migranter kan bygga stark afghansk stat" and appears in the June issue of Afghanistan Nytt. Afghanistan Nytt is published four times a year and you can order it here (in Swedish).   

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”Lund is a really great city and Lund University a fantastic place to be part of. We have met so many wonderful people from all over the world at our student housing”. These enthusiastic exclamations come from Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Rupsa Ghosh, two bright MPhil students in Geography from Delhi University (DU) who have spent two months in Lund from mid-November 2015 as exchange students throug

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/indian-exchange-students-praises-lund-and-lund-university - 2025-08-29

During Almedalsveckan, a weeklong event on the island of Gotland where Sweden’s top political parties and organizations give talks and seminars, SASNET held two seminars on India together with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Six Year Plan. You can listen to both seminars here. Panel 1: India: an emerging power – implications for Asia and beyond Speakers Constantino Xavier,

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SASNET’s South Asia Library received a generous donation in the form of a Gandhi Collection from the relatives of the late Professor Lars Lindström. Lars Lindström (1943–2018) was since 1999 a professor in pedagogy. In 2008 he became a professor at Stockholm University at the Department of Educational Science where he worked on technical, aesthetic and practical traditions of knowledge. Lars’ inte

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This fall SASNET welcomes a new visiting scholar Vittorio Felci. Vittorio Felci graduated in Political Science (2005) and obtained a second-level Master degree in Middle East Studies at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo,” Italy (2007). He earned a Ph.D in History of International Relations from the University of Florence, Italy (2011), with a dissertation on American-Iranian and Anglo-Iranian rel

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

SASNET researcher Admir Skodo gave an interview on the security situation in Afghanistan in an article published by the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. Skodo calls the situation in Afghanistan "an asymmetrical war which switches between high and low intensity." He also points out that Afghanistan and its neighbors to the east and west face a water supply crisis which might have dire consequences

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-gave-interview-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-08-29

SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in Sydasien on the Swedish election. The article explores how Swedish political parties view South Asia. Read the article here

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The STANCE brownbag lunch seminar is held Wednesday September 12 from 12noon-1pm in the large conference room in Eden. This seminar presentation will consider the construction of Afghan statehood as a ‘frontier state’ through the development of colonial knowledge by the British in India. The presentation will delineate the intellectual origins of this knowledge, its influence on policy decisions,

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SOAS, University of London has announced one Michael Palin scholarship for an UK-EU post-graduate student taking the two-year MA in Intensive South Asian Studies at the university on a full-time basis. The scholarship is valued at £47,625 and will cover the full cost of tuition fees for both years of the programme. The remaining amount will go towards living costs for both the duration of the prog

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In order to broaden the collaboration between Swedish religious studies scholars, SASNET Director Andreas Johansson took the initiative in the formation of a new journal on religion that seeks to popularize results and insights from religious studies. The new journal will be issued once or twice per year. The journal follows SASNET’s mission of spreading research in a format accessible to the gene

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On Tuesday September 11 at 4-5:30 pm at Gamla Kirurgen R236 Dr. Martin J. Bayly will give a talk entitled "Taming the Imperial Imagination: How the British Came to Know Afghanistan and Why it Matters" Abstract of the talk:Colonial knowledge played a key role in shaping the practices of colonial rule in South Asia and across the British empire as a whole. This lecture  pays particular attention to

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lecture-british-colonial-administrators-afghanistan - 2025-08-29