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SASNET Newsletter – November 2023 | |
From the DirectorWe
at SASNET are fortunate to be able to, on a regular basis, welcome guests to
Lund who give truly fascinating, timely and important talks. During the past
few months, we have had the privilege to arrange seminars attending to such
varied themes as extreme poverty and marginalisation in Bangladesh, the present
situation in the Kashmir region, and the current
state and likely future of higher education in India. | | | | Ted Svensson, Director of SASNET. | | | | | | |
We are also proud to have organised, with Doc Lounge Malmö, a screening of 'While We Watched', which was followed by a director's talk. We genuinely appreciate all the support we receive from our incoming guests and from those who participate in our events – many of which can be attended online.
In line
with this, I am keen to advertise next year's SASNET Annual Lecture, which will
be delivered by Professor Shirin Rai (SOAS, London).
We sincerely look forward to welcoming Professor Rai to Lund.
| | | | | SASNET Annual Lecture 2024 | | | Professor Shirin Rai
State,
Architecture and Aesthetics: reconfiguring ‘the people’ through India’s new
parliament
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We are delighted to announce
that the SASNET Annual Lecture 2024 will be given by Shirin Rai, Distinguished
Research Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies
SOAS, University of London. Shirin Rai is an interdisciplinary scholar and
has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development as well
as politics and performance. Her most recent book is titled Performing
Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. The lecture will be
held at Lund University on 23 May 2024.
| | | From Indian Nationalism to Anarchism: The Untold Story of M.P.T. Acharya
A new biography by Lund University researcher Ole Birk Laursen delves into the life and ideology of the anti-colonial anarchist
M.P.T. Acharya, the Indian fight for freedom, and the global events that influenced it. Read more | | |
Annual SASNET Symposium Held in Lund
Scholars from Sweden and abroad attended the 2023 SASNET Symposium in Lund. The participants shared ongoing research on South Asia, on topics such as sustainability, civil society, and community-making.
Read more | | |
Film Screening of Indian Documentary While We Watched
In cooperation with Doc Lounge Malmö and Lund University's School of Journalism, SASNET hosted a well-attended film screening of the Indian documentary While We Watched. Visiting from India was Director Vinay Shukla.
Read more | | |
About SASNET SASNET is an organisation for cooperation between faculties, departments and individual researchers that are engaged in research on South Asia. The overarching purpose of the organisation is to promote research on South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) at Lund University. About this newsletter The SASNET newsletter intends to inform about past and upcoming SASNET activities, including events and research, as well as updates on the work of our affiliated researchers. The newsletter is published 3-4 times per year and sent out to all friends and followers of SASNET. Unsubscribe
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