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SASNET Newsletter - February 2023 | |
Message from the DirectorThe spring term promises to be
very eventful. SASNET will organise a large number of seminars as well as two
workshops, one centred on the highly topical theme of shrinking civic space
and the other on the equally important topic of caste politics and
minoritisation. | | | | Ted Svensson, Director, SASNET. | | | | | | |
SASNET members will also participate in the Sustainability week, which takes place in Lund between 17 and 22 April, and, in early May, we welcome Christophe Jaffrelot to Lund for the inaugural SASNET Annual Lecture. I would also like to take this opportunity to promote two types of SASNET grants that Lund University employees can now apply for: planning grants for the submission of a major research application and grants for writing a research application (in Swedish often referred to as ansökningsmånader”).
In January, we launched our new Expert List for Media, which includes researchers at Lund University who specialise in South Asia. You will find it here. Finally, I look forward to seeing many of you at SASNET-organised events during the coming months.
| | | News from SASNETFor the latest updates from SASNET, follow us on our social media: | | |
Mine Islar Receives Funding for Studying Climate Change and Biodiversity in the Himalayas
Mine Islar, Senior Lecturer at LUCSUS, has received funding from FORMAS to carry our two projects during the coming four years. Read more | | | Best South Asia Thesis Award 2022/2023
Are you writing a thesis on a subject that relates to at least one of the South Asian countries? Or have you already during this academic year defended a thesis with a connection to the region? Then the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award may be for you. The application deadline is 22 June 2023. Read more | | | Soumi Banerjee on the Shrinking of Civic Spaces in India: "NGOs are attempting to shift away from activism"
Soumi Banjeree, 28, is currently doing a PhD at the
School of Social Work at Lund University and was the SASNET Coordinator during the autumn. Our communications officer talked to her about her research. Read more | | | Grants for Writing a Research Application (ansökningsmånad)SASNET offer two grants intended to support individual researchers at Lund University in their writing of research applications. The grant equals one month’s full-time work and should be used by June 2024. Read more about the application here.
| | | Planning Grants for the Submission of a Major Research Application
(SASNET) invites Lund University researchers who are in the process of putting together and submitting a major national or international research application to apply for a planning grant. Read more about the application here. | | | For Journalism Students Are you a journalism student at Lund University and interested in doing fieldwork in South Asia? If so, we invite you to apply for our travel grant. Read more about the application here. | New Publication from Lund University | Transcending Antagonism in South Asia: Advancing Agonistic Peace through the Partition Museum
In the article, which was published in the journal Peacebuilding in late December 2022, SASNET Director Ted Svensson analyses the Partition Museum in Amritsar as a rare opportunity to, in an agonistic manner, challenge and undo the antagonism that was enacted in 1947 and that has deepened ever since.
Read the article here.
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