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SASNET Newsletter - March 2022 | |
Message from the DirectorI am truly honoured to be the new SASNET Director and I sincerely look forward to the coming three years. Research on South Asia has always been very strong at Lund University and I hope to
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with the support of SASNET Coordinator Therese Boje Mortensen and other SASNET affiliates
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be able to continue to facilitate a vibrant and dynamic research environment here in Lund and to maintain and initiate productive collaborations with scholars and colleagues that are based at other universities. | | | | Ted Svensson, Director, SASNET, Lund University | | | | | | | As Covid-19 restrictions are easing at Lund University, and will be completely removed from 21 March, we have begun preparations for a year full of interesting and highly topical workshops, panels, and lectures.
Already in May, three prominent scholars will visit SASNET and Lund: Sumi Madhok from the LSE, Sujata Patel who is presently Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor in Umeå, and Sten Widmalm who is Professor of political science at Uppsala University.
See the calendar for more information about upcoming events. We genuinely hope that many of you will be able to participate in events that are arranged by SASNET during 2022.
| | Ted Svensson is, since January 2022, taking over the position as director of SASNET. Former director Andreas Johansson will continue to be affiliated with SASNET, mainly through a research project on the theme religion and politics in Sri Lanka. | Organisational changes and new directorTed Svensson is, since January 2022, the new director of SASNET. Svensson is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University and he has published extensively on state making and nation building in South Asia. In his role as a researcher, he is presently foremost committed to finalising a book about British indirect rule of South Asia’s princely states and to a research project addressing the environmental degradation of the Ganges. Read more. | | | News from SASNETFor the latest updates from SASNET, follow us on our social media: | Keynote speechThe keynote speech from the workshop 'A Nation and its Fault Lines', given by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London), is now available on the SASNET YouTube channel.
In her talk, Prof. Kabir brought together theories of the pastoral and her concept of 'alegropolitics', or the politics of embodied and collective joy, to address the question of the possibility of experiencing happiness, sexual freedom and personal fulfilment while navigating the everyday lived reality of inhabiting a conflict zone.
| | | Book panel: Vernacular Rights Cultures, Prof. Sumi MadhokOn the 12th of May, Sumi Madhok, Professor in Political Theory and Gender Studies from London School of Economics and Political Science, visits Lund for a discussion of her new book Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Read more.
| | | Lund Lectures on Indian Religions During the year 2022, SASNET organises a digital lecture series on Indian religions in collaboration with the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) at Lund University and the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) in Delhi. All lectures will be published open access on the websites of SASNET and its partners in this project, starting from late spring 2022.
Read more.
| | | SASNET Activity Report 2021 publishedDuring 2021 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organisations within Lund University but also with organisations from all over the country
through webinars, publications, podcasts, networking, and workshops. Read more and access the full report.
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French novelist Ari Gautier and Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir. | Workshop: A Nation and its Fault Lines In February, SASNET hosted a one-day workshop – A Nation and its Fault Lines. Jointly conceptualised and organised by SASNET-affiliated researchers Amrita Ghosh and Isha Dubey, the workshop constituted the culminating event of their work at SASNET on the interconnected themes of postcolonial conflict zones, protracted displacement, historical trauma and memory politics in modern and contemporary South Asia through the lens of the Kashmir conflict, the Partition and the Bangladesh War of 1971. The workshop concluded with a one-hour program – Le Thinnai Kreyol. Co-founded by Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir and the French novelist Ari Gautier in 2020, Le Thinnai Kreyol is a multi-lingual cultural platform that promotes their vision for a plural and creolised India. | New Publication from Lund University |
A political ecology of aviation and development: an analysis of relations of power and justice in the (de)construction of Nepal's Second International Airport
In a new article, published in Journal of Political Ecology, Associate Professor Mine Islar (together with Hanna Geschewski) investigate socio-ecological conflicts surrounding the proposed Second International Airport project near Nijgadh, a town in the southern Terai region of Nepal.
Link to abstract.
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About SASNETSASNET, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network, is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), based at Lund University in Sweden. About this newsletter
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