International website funded by
the Department for Education and Skills, UK, and managed by
the British Council, enabling those involved in education across
the world to engage in creative partnerships. Provides quick
access to comprehensive information on how to develop an international
dimension to education. http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/
Applications for the Linnaeus Palme exchange programme for the
period 1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012 should be delivered
to the International Office or equivalent authority at the
local Swedish university not later than 1 December, 2010.
Decisions will be taken by the International Programme Office for
Education and Training during the spring 2011.
More information.
Non-governmental
organisation with 30 member organisations, running the exchange
programmes Sweden World Youth (SWY) and Youth Partners in Development
(YPD), carried out in cooperation with organisations
in Cambodia, Costa Rica, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Aims
at young persons that want to live and work close together
with young persons from other cultures.
Courses on South Asia in Sweden
University of Gothenburg , and Chalmers University of Technology
During the spring 2011, the Dept. of History and Anthropology
of Religion (including Judaism and Indic Religions) at Lund University, and the Dept. of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion at Gothenburg University. jointly organises 15 ECTS field course in Religious Studies, including five weeks of field work in India. During the first subcourse (5 credits) devoted to methodological questions, located in Sweden, a plan for the field work is made. The course is divided into two parts: firstly the students explore different methods and theories of conducting fieldwork in Religious studies and prepare minor research projects. Secondly the students carry out their projects in the field and write research reports. The field work can be conducted anywhere, but the two departments at Lund University and Gothenburg University provide supervision for those who travel to India. Students can attend the course at either of the two universities. Full information in the course folder (only in Swedish) Follow LIR in India on Facebook. Contact persons in Gothenburg: Daniel Andersson, Clemens Cavallin, and Åke Sander
CEAS (Centre for Asian
Studies) at the School for Global Studies
runs a programme on basic and intermediate level (1–20
credits and 21–40 credits) in Asian
studies,
which includes teaching on South Asia.
Contact person: Study counsellor Sylva
Frisk
During a number of years, CEAS has arranged a 10
credits special course called ”South
Asia today”, involving a large number
of the South Asia specialists at Gothenburg University,
including Björn Hettne, Camilla Orjuela, Gunilla Blomquist,
Bent Jörgensen,
Monica Erwér and Jan Johansson.
Contact person: Jan
Johansson
Museion, a Gothenburg University
program co-operating with several University departments and
the Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet),
offers a Masters programme in International Museum Studies,
and several South Asia related undergraduate courses focusing
on Globalization; Power and Marginalization; and Knowledge
and Communication. Some of them are South Asia related. More
information about Museion’s South Asia related educational programmes.
Under the theme ”Knowledge
and Communication”, the following South Asia related courses were run during the Fall 2008.
‡ A 15 credits course
on China and India: Visualisations of Nations (Kina och Indien: visualiseringar av nationer). Contact person: Dr. Eva Rosén Hockersmith. Under the theme ”Power and Marginalization”, the following South Asia related course was run during the Fall 2008.
‡ A 15 credits course
on The Challenges of Buddhism: Power, Morality and Resistance in a Global Perspective (Buddhismens utmaningar: makt, moral och motstånd i ett globalt perspektiv). Contact person: Dr. Per Lundberg, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. More
information about the course. Under the theme ”Globalisation”, the following South Asia related courses were run during the Fall 2008.
‡ A 15 credits course
on Religion and Politics: Meetings in the Global
Room (Religion och Politik:
Möten i det globala rummet). Contact person: Jan
Johansson from the Dept of Social Anthropology,
School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. More
information about the course.
‡ A 15 credits course
on The Global City (Den globala staden).
Contact person:
Dr. Marie
Thynell from the Dept.
of Peace and Development Studies (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies,
Gothenburg University. More
information about the course.
‡ A 15 credits course
on Global Gender Studies (Globala Genusstudier).
Contact person:
Dr. Gunilla Blomqvist from the Dept.
of Peace and Development Studies (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies,
Gothenburg University. More
information about the course.
During the Spring 2009, Museion also offered another South Asia related course under the theme ”Power and Marginalisation”.
‡ A 15 credits course on Power,
Resistance and Change 1 (Makt, motstånd och förändring
I). Contact person: Dr. Stellan Vinthagen, from the Dept.
of Peace and Development Studies (PADRIGU), School of Global Studies,
Gothenburg University.
More
information about the course.
Geijerskolan, Ransäter
Hållands Folkhögskola
Folk high school in Värmland, with a long tradition of collaboration with Karlstad University. Organises every year a one-year course entitled ”Filosofi och Världsbild”, focusing on western philosophy and history of ideas as well as Indian history and some of its religions. Besides that the course offers a five week travel to northern India were the students get the opportunity to meet lecturers on Indian philosophy e g Buddhism, Saivism and Advaita. It also includes studies on the political history of India and gender studies, and visits to important historical sites as Agra, Delhi and Varanasi. More information.
Contact person: Lina Bernäng
This Christian folk high school in Åre, Jämtland, organises a
one year Development studies course (”U-landslinjen”) every year, starting in August. The course includes a two months stay in either India or Tanzania during the Spring semester. The subjects taught include Missionary research, Hindi (or Swahili), Development studies, and Cultural understanding. The next programme will run from 28 August 2011 till 30 May 2012. Deadline for applications is 30 April 2011. More
information.
Contact person: Hans Bolin
Karlstad University
Every year, Karlstad University in collaboration with
the Banaras Hindu University(BHU)
in Varanasi, India, offers students at the C/D-level courses
in History of Religions, Cultural Geography, and History at
Karlstad University, the opportunity to spend one full semester
in Varanasi.
The India Program, equal to 30 or 45 ECTS credits, begins with a 7.5 points preparatory
course (conducted in Karlstad during the summer), a course that includes research
methodology. After arrival in Varanasi, a 7.5 points
seminar series on the ”Multi-Cultural Aspects of Banaras” follows,
and finally 15 points consisting of an Individual Study
Project. Qualified academic advisors, often
affiliated with BHU, serves as local experts for the students,
and the final result of the “Individual
Study Project” is a C/D level essay.
In a formal agreement with the Dept.
of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala
University, it is also possible to conduct Hindi
studies equal to 15 ECTS, simultaneously with
studies in History of Religion or History. The Hindi language training is given by Dr. Virendra
Singh.
Voluntary studies can also be organized for language studies in Sanskrit or Urdu, and cultural activities
such as Indian music and instruments, Yoga, Dance, Painting, etc.
The Ganga Mahal office is manned by Shri Om Prakash Sharma, the Ganga Mahal local coordinator, who has year's of experience in assisting western students and researchers.
The students are accommodated at Ganga
Mahal, the Swedish Study Centre leased by Karlstad
University in a ”palace” on the bank of the Ganges
River since 1995. Applicants must be qualified for admission to the
C/D levels of History of Religion or Cultural Geography at
Karlstad University.
Deadline for applications for the 2011 program is Monday 4 April. A first information meeting will be held on Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 15:00 - 18:00 in the University of Karlstad, room 3B 512. Full
information about the India Programme 2011
Contact persons: Per Olof Fjällsby, Dept. of History, and Marc
Katz, Associate Professor of History of Religions.
The Department of Educational Work, Organisation and Society, at the Faculty of Arts and Education, Karlstad University, coordinates an international educational project, the Masters Programme in Educational Research and Development (MAP) at Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan since 2008.
It is an institutional cooperation project between the universities of Karlstad, Sweden; Tampere, Finland; Bochum, Germany; Kathmandu, Nepal; and Nangarhar University, Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) is an associate partner in the project. The project is funded since 2007 by an Asia Link Programme grant from the European Commission, and as the project name implies, the goal is to provide a high-quality Masters Programme in Educational Research and Development at the Nangarhar University in Afghanistan. More information.
Contact person: Dr. Pia Karlsson
The programme is now approaching a successful end. Ten students had already achieved a Master Degree of 60 ECTS (magisterexamen) and an additional group of eleven students came to Karlstad University to defend their second theses during the period 12–14 October 2010 (photo of the group above). Their topics ranged from girls’ mathematics achievements to the views of Afghan teachers on issues such as girls’ education and corporal punishment in schools as well the emergence of private education in Afghanistan and community based education. All the students passed the defence. More information on the MAP programme website.
Karolinska Institutet
The Division of Reproductive and Perinatal Health Care hosts an Advanced International Training
Programme on ”Strengthening Midwifery Competence
in Sexual and Reproductive Health
and Services” (funded by the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency, Sida), to be held in
two parts, first in the October 2009 and then continued in August–September 2010.
The programme is designed for professional
midwives in Asia who have
a basic education equivalent to
WHO/ICM/FIGO defined required
competence. The participants
should hold positions that have an
influence on ongoing issues related
to SRHR. A team of three participants
(representing clinical work,
education and policy) from each
country will be preferred.
Applicants should have a planned
or an ongoing SRHR project, supported
and approved by the employer.
The overall programme objective is to
strengthen midwives’ competence in
countries where maternal morbidity
and mortality are as highest, that is in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The programme is organized as a joint venture between the Division of International Health (IHCAR) at Karolinska
Institutet; International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Dept. of Women’s and Children’s
Health at Uppsala University; and the Swedish Association of Midwives. Full information incl. application form (as a pdf-file).
Contact person: Prof. Kyllike Christensson
The Division of International Health,
Department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet
Medical University is one of eight European institutions awarding
degrees in a new European Master of Science International Health
Degree Programme. The programme is part of tropEd, a network
of European institutions for higher education, in existence
since 1996 and collaborating closely with institutions in Asia,
Africa, and the Americas in providing postgraduate education
and training opportunities.
The European Master of Science Programme in International Health
is a one year, full-time study programme taught in English.
The main objective of the programme is to raise awareness of
current global health concerns. Students become qualified to
identify and critically analyse key factors shaping the health
and well-being of populations in low- and middle-income countries
and to formulate effective and appropriate responses to complex
health-related issues.
Six possible study tracks are offered for this degree and reflect
the strengths of the consortium institutions: Tropical Medicine
and Disease Control; Health Systems, Health Policy and Management;
Sexual and Reproductive Health; Child Health; Health Research
Methods; and Health in Emergencies.
Each study track begins with a 3 month core course from September
to December. Core courses provide a common basis of the main
subject areas for all students. Students receive 20 European
Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credit points upon successful
completion of their core course. More
information on the European Master of Science International
Health Degree Programme.
Contact person: Anna-Lena
Paulsson
The
Department of Nursing, The Division
of International Health, IHCAR, and the Dept.
of Public Health Sciences, every semester arranges a
5 credits independent course on Global
Health. The course is open to students at Karolinska
Institutet in the Medical programme, Midwifery programme, Nursing
programme, Dental programme, Biomedical laboratory programme,
Physiotherapy programme, Occupational therapy programme, and
the Biomedical programme. The students can choose to do the
field work at Karolinska’s two collaboration partner institutions
in South Asia: The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; and
Trivandrum Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, India. More
information on the Global Health course.
Contact person: Prof. Hans
Rosling
The
Center for Public Health, CeFAM (a collaboration between
Karolinska Institutet and the county council of Stockholm)
organises courses in Global Medicine for Junior Hospital Doctors
(ST-läkare).
The Sida funded courses deal with diseases like malaria, TB
and AIDS, and take place either in Ethiopia or in India (four
months at R.D.Gardi Medical College, in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. More
information on the training in Ujjain (in Swedish only)
Contact person: Prof. Vinod
Diwan
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
An
80 credits International Master of Science programme on Water
System Technology was launched in 2007.
The aim of the programme is to explore all major aspects
of use and protection of available water resources. The programme
deals with all the complexities, challenges and opportunities in
water resources management through water systems approaches and
will allow participants to focus particular attention on preferred
problem areas. It is jointly organised by the Department
of Land and Water Resources Engineering at KTH, and the Department
of Physical Geography and Quarternary Geology at the
University of Stockholm. Deadline for applications are 15 January
every year.
More
informaton.
Contact person: Programme
Coordinator Göran Baurne.
A 7,5 credits course titled ”Gender issues in Developing Countries”
was again held in the Fall 2009 (16 November – 12 December). It was
organised by the Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering,
and aims at imparting integrated theoretical
and practical knowledge on gender and development issues in the
South to students, researchers, teachers and development practitioners
in different kinds of agencies in Sweden.
More
information.
Contact person: Dr. Nandita Singh
Linköping University
Ljungskile Folkhögskola
A 120 ECTS Credits International Master's Programme
in Science for Sustainable Development started in 2007. It is organised by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and
leads to a Master in Science degree in Sustainable Development,
with a specialization in one of the following areas:
1. Climate, Energy & Recycling;
2. Water & Food
Security; or 3. GIS for Environmental Studies. Focus in the first
two study areas will be directed to both how social changes shape
the environment, and how environmental changes shape society. The two-year programme starts every Fall. Deadline for applications is 15 December every year. Next programme starts in September 2011. More
information about the programme.
Contact person: Susanne Eriksson from the Dept.
of Water and Environmental Studies.
A
new World course (”Världens kurs med
Indienresa 2008”) on Justice, Peace and Environment,
including a three weeks tour to north India, will again be arranged by
Ljungskile Folk High school during the period 15 August 2011 – 15 January 2012. The tour includes a stay at the village folk
high school Jagriti Vihara in Ranchi, Jharkhand. More
information.
Contact person: Eva Erlandsson
In the fall semester 2011, the Dept. of Economic History organises a 7.5 ECTS undergraduate course on ”The Rising Giants – China and India Entering the Global Scene”. This course gives a much improved first hand understanding of the rise of Asia's two giants – China and India. First, modernisation and industrialisation in socialist China is explored from the pre-communist era until today. The process of transition from plan to market economy is unravelled. The institutional set-up and socio-economic achievements of the emerging market economy are contrasted with, but also causally linked to, those of the socialist planned economy. Secondly, the Indian economy from colonial times to present day is studied. Particular consideration is given to Independent India, contrasting and linking the miracle economy of the 1990s and the new millennium with the preceding forty years, scrutinising the economic policy of past and present in terms of economic achievements. Focusing on China and India will allow for comparisons of Asian development experiences where processes of economic growth and structural changes are analysed from the point of view of equity between individuals, groups, class and gender together with the challenges of achieving environmentally sustainable development. More information on the course.
The teacher at the course is Dr. Tobias Axelsson.
Lund University Education – the university's company for
commissioned education – offers a number of English-language
educational training programmes funded by the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, to be held in
the Fall 2010 – Spring 2011. –
The advanced International training programme on ”Sustainable
Urban Water and Sanitation” will run again with a 19 days course in Lund in August/September 2010, and with a regional seminar in one of the participating countries in February/March 2011. The overall objective
of the programme is to provide the participants with understanding
and knowledge about the need for integrated approaches and the
organisational and institutional changes that are necessary for
a sustainable provision of water supply and sanitation services
in urban areas. The target group is medium to top level managers and others in a managerial position, working with policy- and development issues within the national urban water and sanitation sector, including public authorities and other local or regional authorities. This includes people with an affiliation to health-, environmental, -waste, -traffic and the city planning sector. From
South Asia, professionals in the field from Bangladesh, India
and Sri Lanka are welcome to apply for this programme. The programme
is managed by staff from the Dept. of
Water Resources Engineering.
A new programme will run during the period February 2011 – August 2012, including a stay in Lund from 28 March 28 – 15 April 2011, and a follow-up seminar in one of the participating countries in October/November 2011.
It is now possible to apply on-line at www.education.lu.se/sida/water for the programme. All applicants had to send the signed application form to the nearest Swedish embassy. Closing date for applications was 24 November 2010. More
information. –
A training programme on ”Road Traffic Safety” runs
every year. It is administered by Traffic and Roads, Department of Technology and Society. The overall objective of the programme is to provide the participants with understanding and knowl
edge of what organisational and
institutional conditions are necessary
for the management of an efficient
and effective traffic safety work at a
national level.traffic safety problems, carry out
traffic safety investigations, compose
traffic safety schemes and evaluate
their effects. More
information.
– A training programme on ”Child
rights, Classroom and School Management” runs every year. On behalf of the Lund University
Commissioned Education (uppdragsutbildning), the Division of Sociology of Law at Lund University runs this programme since 2004, in collaboration with Lund University’s former Dept. of Education (now integrated into the Dept. of Sociology, and the School of Social Work), and the School of Teacher Education, Malmö University.
A new contract for another 6 years was signed in 2010. The programme aims at spreading knowledge about the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child – WCPRC and support schools
and authorities in ten countries in Africa, Asia and Latin Amerika to
develop education focusing on the rights of children. Among the ten countries,
two are in South Asia – India
and Sri Lanka.
In India, special focus has been put on Wayanad district in the northern part of Kerala state, from where many participants to he programme have been selected. More
information.
–
A training programme on ”Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights – SRHR” runs
every year. The target group is persons working
with SRHR, in managing position and that have responsibility to
develop capacity and knowledge within SRHR. Participants should
have a background as midwives/teachers in the health care sector
or gynaecologists/obstetricians. From South Asia, persons from
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka have been accepted
for this programme. The programme
is managed by staff from the Division
of Social Medicine and Global Health, Department of Health
Sciences; Lund University (in Malmö). Deadline for applications: 15 October every year. More
information.
– A Training Programme on ”Shelter Design and Development” has run every year till 2011. The programme has been organised by the Dept.
of Housing Development and Management (HDM). This department had also already,
since several years, organised similar International
training courses on different themes with funds from Sida. Their short courses
have been directed to planners, architects, civil engineers,
administrators and others working with construction, housing
and human settlements. Earlier a postgraduate training course on Conservation
and Management of Historic Buildings was held for a number of years with many participants from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. It was organised
in collaboration with the Department of Architectural Conservation
and Restoration, Lund University.
More information on HDM’s training programmes.
Lund
University introduced a new 120 ECTS (80 Swedish credits) International
Masters programme in applied Development and Management (LUMID)
in 2006. LUMID is open to students both
from Sweden and the rest of the world who wish to prepare for
a career in international aid and development cooperation,
or wishing to further their academic studies with this profile.
Through the assistance of te Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (Sida), LUMID is able to offer students
field based courses in project and programme management. The
two-year programme is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund
University, but multidisciplinarity is accomplished
through teachers’ teams recruited from a number of faculties. More
information on LUMID.
Contact persons: Dr. Agnes Andersson,
LUMID Programme Manager; and Prof. Göran
Djurfeldt, Chairman of the LUMID steering group.
During the spring 2011, the Dept. of History and Anthropology
of Religion (including Judaism and Indic Religions) at Lund University, and the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion at Gothenburg University jointly organises 15 ECTS field course in Religious Studies, including five weeks of field work in India. During the first subcourse (5 credits) devoted to methodological questions, located in Sweden, a plan for the field work is made. The course is divided into two parts: firstly the students explore different methods and theories of conducting fieldwork in Religious studies and prepare minor research projects. Secondly the students carry out their projects in the field and write research reports. The field work can be conducted anywhere, but the two departments at Lund University and Gothenburg University provide supervision for those who travel to India. Students can attend the course at either of the two universities. Full information in the course folder (only in Swedish) Follow LIR in India on Facebook. Contact persons in Lund: Kristina Myrvold, Katarina Plank, Pierre Wiktorin and Jürgen Offermanns
The Department of History and Anthropology
of Religion (including Judaism and Indic Religions) at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies offers several
South Asia related courses.
In recent years the Indic Religions Division has offered a 20 credits half-time course for beginners
in Elementary Sanskrit a couple of times (taught by Dr. Martin Gansten), and also a number
of specialised 5 credits courses on topics such as Bhagavadgita; Western Buddhism; Yoga
and Meditation in Indian religions; Tantra
and Tantrism; Jainism, Non-violence
and Vegetarianism; Indic Philosophies;
and Astrology and Divination in Indian religions. Since 2006 a new 5 credits course
on Sikhism has been introduced.
It was the first course on Sikhism at any Scandinavian university.
From 2007 the Indic Religions Division arranges
a 7.5 credits course on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism in the Fall semesters, and a 7.5 credist course on Hinduism and Buddhism in Europe and America during the Spring semesters. Indic religions are also studied within the framework of the 15 credits course Meetings with World Religions, given every semester.
More
information on the courses offered.
Contact
person: Prof. Olle
Qvarnström
From 2007 the Master Programme in Asian Studies at Lund University
follows the Bologna model and runs for four consecutive semesters,
consisting of 120 ECTS credits. The programme has been
successfully run at Lund University since the Fall 2003. It is an interdisciplinary programme,
focusing on political, economic, social, and cultural issues in
Asia. It is the only English language programme of its kind in
the Nordic countries. The programme is aimed at students who after
their undergraduate studies want to gain area expertise on contemporary
Asian societies. The programme is divided into two tracks,
one for East and South East Asian studies, and one for South Asian
studies, and is administered by the Centre
for East and South-East Asian Studies (ACE) at
Lund University. In India, the programme collaborates with the Institute of Social Sciences in New Delhi.
The application round for the eighth year programme starting in September 2010 is now closed. More
information.
Contact person: Dr. Monica Lindberg-Falk,
Director of Studies
Several of the students from the Masters programme at Lund University have proceeded to doctoral studies at universities all over Europe. More information on these alumni students.
TheInternational Institute
for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) offers a 120 ECTS credits
Master of Science programme on Environmental
Management and Policy. This combined online and onsite programme (details below) aims to prepare professionals with expertise in environmental strategies for careers as executives, analysts, decision makers, researchers and consultants. It concentrates on creating preventative environmental solutions for industry and governments, understanding the public and industrial societal systems, and applying appropriate policies and measures to solve integrated environmental problems. The coming programme starts in October 2011 with online distance courses, followed in August 2012 by 9 months of on-site learning at the IIIEE building in the centre of Lund, then 4 months of thesis research until graduation in September 2013. More
information on the programme. IIIEE is also a partner institution in the Erasmus
Mundus programme on Environmental Science, Policy and Management (MESPOM), the next programme will be for the period 2011–2013. Like other Erasmus Mundus programmes
MESPOM provide scholarships to outstanding students from countries
outside the EU. MESPOM is coordinated by IIIEE and operated by a consortium of four leading European institutions for environmental research and postgraduate education which include, in addition to IIIEE, the Central European University (Hungary), the University of the Aegean (Greece) and the University of Manchester (UK) . MESPOM is supported by the Erasmus Mundus programme of the European Commission.
Application deadlines for the 2011-2013 study period are January 3, 2011 for the applicants seeking Erasmus Mundus scholarships types A and B or other financial assistance from the MESPOM Consortium or CEU (including fee waivers), and April 30, 2011 for the applicants who do not seek or are not eligible for Erasmus Mundus scholarships or other forms of financial assistance from CEU or the MESPOM Consortium More information
on the programme.
Nordens Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö
A
36 weeks trainee programme on Ecology
and Global Solidarity is again arranged during the period August 2011 – May 2012.
The programme is intended for students who already have a degree in development studies or environmental studies. It is organised by Nordens Folkhögskola in collaboration with the Swedish
NGO Framtidsjorden and
its network in India. The costs are fully funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida.
The first part of the course consists of nine weeks of studies and preparations at Sida Civil Society Course Centre in Härnösand, upon which follows five months of practical work in India, where
the students will work with local organisations engaged in projects to create an ecologically and socially
sustainable society. Finally, the students will do six weeks external information work in Sweden. A total number of seven participants will be accepted for the programme.
Last date for applications is Tuesday 15 April 2011. More information.
Contact person: Robert
Norman
Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm
Mejan ARC – Advanced Studies in Urbanism is a forum for architectural and urban studies at KKH that offers one- year post-graduate courses in three disciplines, including Architecture, Architectural Conservation (both full time courses), and Art and Architecture (a half time course). During the academic year 2011/12, the Mejan Arc KKH organises a 60 ECTS Post-Graduate course entitled ”Inclusive India – Re: Pune”. It will focus on the issues of conservation and preservation of the cultural heritage, its architecture and tales, when re-developing a historic city is a challenge with a multitude of possibilities and resources. The ever increasing pace of urbanization demands new strategies, new actors and new values. The course will start 12 September 2011 and finish 30 May 2012.
The course will be run in collaboration with the the Indian School of Architecture BNCA in Pune whose students will work in parallel on the same project.
The course is conducted by Professor Tina Wik, architect and professor in Architectural Conservation, and Dr. Cecilia Sagrén, architect assistant professor. Fredric Bedoire, professor in the History of Architecture will participate as well guest professors and lecturers.
Applications must be submitted before 23 May 2011. More information.
Stockholm University
The Dept. of Educational Science with an emphasis on Humanities and Social Science (UHS), a new department created after the merger of the Stockholm Institute of Education with Stockholm University on January 1, 2008, organises a 15 ECTS credits course titled ”Changing
India and Ourselves” every year during
a part of the Spring semester (January–March). The course has been developed out
of a course titled ”Changing South” that Jim Walch
has run successfully at the Stockholm Institute of Education since 1993. It consists of two parts, first five weeks
field studies in Tamil Nadu, India, where the students should
confront, analyse and reflect upon the various patterns of poverty
and domination that can be found in the South and in the relation
to the richer parts of the world; and then five weeks literature
studies and seminars in Sweden. The next course will be run in the Spring 2011. Last date for applications is 15 October 2010. More
information.
Contact persons: Margareta Adolphson and Bodil Nilsson
The Dept. of Social Anthropology organised a 15 ECTS credits course on ”China and India: Tradition, Modernity and Power” in the Fall semester 2009. The course was taught in Swedish.
Contact person: Dr. Per Ståhlberg
The Department of Oriental Languages introduced a new two-year 120 ECTS credits Masters Programme in Asian Studies from the Fall semester 2010. The programme has two branches, one focusing on East Asia, and another focusing on Central and South Asia. Students who wish to join the programme are required to have a BA including at least 60 ECTS credits from Asian language studies (for students to the South Asia branch this means Hindi, Urdu or Bengali), and to have written an Asia related BA thesis. Full information on the Masters programme (in Swedish only).
Contact person:
Johan Fresk
The Division of South and Central Asian Studies (Section for Indology) within the Department of
Oriental Languages runs educational courses on
the ancient as well as modern languages and cultures of
South Asia, with special emphasis on India, up to the level
of Bachelors and Masters degrees. The Indology
courses are separated into one track specialized
on Ancient and Medieval India – with Sanskrit studies, and another
track specialized on Modern India –
with Hindi studies.
More
information on all courses run during the Fall 2011.
Contact person:
Director of Studies Mats
Lindberg
A popular 30 ECTS credits Internet based distance learning Hindi course was introduced in 2009, attracting many students. The teachers are Roberto Menkes and Mirja Juntunen. A new course starts in the Fall 2011. If vacant seats, it is possible to register for the course all up to the course starts in week 35. More information.
Södertörns Högskola (Södertörn University)
The School of Culture and Communication, Södertörns högskola, again organises a 15 ECTS course in History of Indian Philosophy starting during the Fall semester 2011. It is the first course of its kind in Sweden. It focuses on the Buddhist, Hindu, Materialist, and Sceptical traditions that have existed in India for a long time, starting with Vedic metaphysical speculations 3,500 years ago, and ends up with today’s postcolonial theories. The course is aimed at students within the humanities, mainly Philosophy, Science of Religion, and from History of Ideas. Deadline for applications: 15 April every year. More information.
Contact person: Dr. Anna-Pya Sjödin
Uppsala University
A 60 credits (90 ECTS credits) interdisciplinary Master’s
Programme in South
Asian Studies – Cultural Pluralism, Political Institutions
and Socio-economic Processes, was run at
Uppsala University during the years 2002–04. The three
semesters programme was located within the disciplinary domain
of Arts and Sciences, brings together the disciplines of Indology,
Political Science, History, Religion, Cultural Anthropology
and Ethnology, Economics, and Peace and Conflict Research (but
based at
the Section
for Asian and African Languages and Cultures, Dept.
of Linguistics and Philology). Teachers come
from all the disciplines. The programme offered an interdisciplinary
perspective in Arts and Sciences, with language studies (Hindi
or Tamil), fieldwork in the region and optional internship.
Language of instruction was English.
Since 2008, the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology runs a new three-year 180 ECTS B.A. programme in Oriental Studies (Orientalistikprogrammet), focusing on the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia. Half the time is devoted to language studies, and the rest to studies of political, religious, economic, and literary conditions in obth the past and present. The programme is divided into four branches, where the language to study is Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hindi respectively.
During the second year, one semester should be spent at a language institute in the regions of studies, and during the third year, special courses in language and literature, political science, and economics will be given. More information about the programme. Contact person for the Oriental Studies Programme with Hindi studies: Associate professor Christiane
Schaefer
During the Fall 2009, Professor Heinz Werner Wessler from the Division of Indology at the Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, University of Bonn, Germany, has been a guest teacher at the department, in charge of the advanced Hindi courses.
Every year, the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology also offers separate South Asia related courses and study
programmes in Indology (including Sanskrit), Hindi, Comparative
Indo-European Philology, and Iranian languages.
More
information on Indology studies courses
(including Sanskrit), which are carried out up to D-level.
A new 20 credits A-level course starts every Fall, and includes
a 5 credits course in Sanskrit text applications, 10 credits
Sanskrit grammar, and 5 credits Cultural history of India.
The B level course run during the Spring 2007 includes courses
in Sanskrit, Pali and Vedic languages . C-level courses also run during the Fall
semesters.
Besides being part of the study programmes, 5 or 10 credits
orientation courses are also offered every semester in topics
such as ”Indian
Religions, Culture and History”; ”Indian
Languages and Literature”; ”Introduction
to Sanskrit”; and ”Introduction
to Indic Philosophical Traditions”. For example, the course,
run during the Fall 2006, involves studies about the Indic history
of ideas (in present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan)
from the Vedas up to modern, postcolonial theories, but focusing
on the Hindu, Buddhist, and Materialist traditions of ideas.
Summer courses are also held every year. In the Summer 2006 a 5
credits course on ”Religious expressions
in Indian culture” was arranged, a course consisting
of seminars, lectures and films, studying religions and culture
in India of today, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and
Islam.
More
information on Hindi studies courses,
which are carried out up to D-level.
An Internet based 10 credits course
has also been run for a few years. A course ”Hindi
på Internet" started in the Fall 2005 and was
taught by Dr. Mirja Juntunen.
The
Collegium for Development Studieswas a special unit
at Uppsala University with its own board, functioning as a link
between development research and Swedish development cooperation.
It organises seminars and conferences regularly, and publishes newsletters,
reports and documents on current issues.
The Collegium ceased to exist as an independent unit from January 1, 2009. The activities, as well as its personnel, have instead been integrated in the Uppsala Center for Sustainable Development.
Österlen folk high school, Tomelilla
Albins Folk High School, Landskrona
A
one-year course on India/South
Asia is arranged every
year since 2001. Till 2007, it was organised as an academic undergraduate social science course in co-operation with the Dept.
of Sociology at Lund University, but from 2010 it is run in collaboration with the Global Political Studies programme at University of Malmö. A
new programme starts every year in August, with field work in south
India during the period January–March
coming year. After an initial common course at Kerala the students
visit different places in India and Bangladesh where
they make individual field work. The students give regular
reports through Internet travel diaries.
Applications can be submitted throughout the year for coming courses.
More
information.
Contact person: Jens
Karlsson
Albins Folk high school in Landskrona offers a one-year full-time course entitled ”Global change – Sustainable world”. The next course starts in the Fall 2011.
The course content stands on three pillars:
First is how globalization affects us. Second is the three aspects of
sustainable development, ecological, social and economic. What are the
global challenges for humanity? The third pillar is how can we influence the
development working through democratic organizations and NGOs?
During the
course two field study tours are made. In the autumn to meet youth and students
active in environmental work in southern Poland during 1-2 weeks. In spring
two months tour to India and Bangladesh (Nepal and Sri Lanka also
possible) and meet NGOs working with Human Rights, environment, Fairtrade,
Trade Unions in textile and garment industry, women empowerment, child
rights, organic farming etc. Most time is spent in Tamil Nadu and
Uttharakhand but shorter visits are also made to New Delhi, Kolkata,
Bangalore and Varanasi.
Albins Folkhighschool is run by 26 regional trade-unions in Skåne in the
south of Sweden. It offers a non-formal adult educator which mean that students
can influence content and methods through democratic participating in the learning process. Students have access to study loans and grants from CSN. More information.
Contact person:
Anders Ohlsson
Nordic Centre in India, and Kulturstudier
The Nordic Centre in India (NCI) organises full semester
programmes for Nordic students at the University of Hyderabad.
The Nordic Centre has made an arrangement with the University
of Hyderabad and its Study India Program (SIP) to allow
15 Nordic students to be admitted there, and to take courses
on various social science and humanities subjects. The aim of the agreement is to allow Nordic students to study India in India, to give them both a sound academic knowledge of India as well as the experience you only gain by living there. In most cases, the UoH degree should count towards you final degree at your home university.
Please note that applicants must come from the Nordic universities that are members of the NCI consortium. The Hyderabad semester last from third week of July to
first week of December and from first week of January to
first week of May every year. Deadlines for sending in your application: –
Spring Semester: November 9th: –
Fall Semester: March 15th. More
information about the Hyderabad semester programme.
From the fall semester 2011, NCI runs a full semester Hindi Study Programme in Varanasi, India. The programme is organised in collaboration with the Gandhian Institute of Studies, and is held from 29th August till 2nd December 2011. This first full semester course has participants from Aarhus University, Denmark; University of Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm University, Sweden. It is tailor-made for the Advanced Hindi students from the Nordic countries. The course has been developed by NCI Director Mirja Juntunen, who is also the Academic Coordinator of the course and Senior Lecturer in Hindi at the Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University.
The course will again be given in the Fall 2012, and is open for applicants from the NCI Nordic member universities.More information.
For the ninth time the course
'Contemporary India' was held in the Summer 2011 (12 June – 9 July) at the
University of Hyderabad, in collaboration with the
Nordic Centre in India. The course, running for four weeks, was tailor-made for Nordic students and introduces issues
of politics, culture and economy. It consists of the following
five parts: Introductory course: The diversity of
India:
The political system and questions of identity:
Globalisation and the economy focusing on the city of Hyderabad:
Development, environment and human rights: and Indian
literature and cinema. The students coming from most Nordic
countries (and universities that are members of the Nordic
Centre in India) are given board and lodging in an excellent
guest house. Each member university nominated their candidates
and reserves on this course. More
information about the Hyderabad summer course.
For the fifth year, NCI offered a 7.5 ECTS summer course on environmental issues in India, in Bangalore during the period 10 July – 6 August 2011. The course titled “Approaching
the Environment in India. New theories and methods in the study of the nature-society interface”, was organised in collaboration
with the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)
in Bangalore. It is a four-weeks multi-disciplinary course for graduate and post-graduate
students from the Nordic countries, that seeks to introduce
students to recent theories and methods in the study of contemporary
environmental issues in India. Each member university nominated their candidates
and reserves on this course. More
informationabout the Bangalore summer course.
For the fifth year, NCI also offered a 7.5 ECTS summer course on “Demography,
Gender and Reproductive Health”, in Mumbai during the period 10 July to 6 August 2011. It was an an introduction to population studies
in India, organised in collaboration with the International Institute for Population
Science (IIPS) in Mumbai in collaboration with NCI. The course
is a multi-disciplinary course that is open for under-graduate
and graduate students from the Nordic countries. Each member university nominated their candidates
and reserves on this course. More
information about the Mumbai summer course.
Twice a year KULTURSTUDIER
(Culture Studies) offers a full semester course (30 ECTS) in Peace
and Conflict Studies, to be carried out in Puducherry
(Pondicherry) on the southeastern coast of India. KULTURSTUDIER is
an organisation run by a group of social scientists and humanists
whose background is from the University of Oslo. Since 1997
it provides the opportunity to combine studies of high academic
standard in an environment that offers great learning experiences
in third world countries, including India. The Puducherry course is run in cooperation
with Oslo University College and Vestfold
University College. It is offers
twice per year, starting in August and January. The course gives a broad interdisciplinary introduction to the study of social and political processes of conflict and conflict resolution on a local, regional and global scale. Students and teachers come from all over the world. 10 weeks of studies in India are preceded by 5 weeks of self-study with internet-based supervision.
The collaboration with with Oslo University College makes it possible to issue Internationally transferable university credits. The course is suitable for both for students who wish to include the discipline of peace studies as a part of a bachelor degree, and professionals (teachers, diplomats, etc.) and others who seek further education in international and multicultural issues. Full
information about the Peace and Conflict Studies course .
From the Fall semester 2011, Kulturstudier starts another 30 ECTS credits programme in Anthropology and Religious Studies on Bachelor’s level at Puducherry, again in collaboration with with Oslo University College. The new course focuses on Religion, Power, Politics and South Asia. The programme starts on Monday 29 August 2011. Full
information about the Anthropology and Religious Studies course .
Swedish students are welcome to participate in the Puducherry semester programmes. Information meetings are therefore held at several Swedish universities (Stockholm, Uppsala, Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg) during the spring 2011. Go for the schedule of the information meetings.
The Tranquebar Initiative of the National Museum of Denmark is an interdisciplinary endeavour and prepared in close collaboration with a number of Indian authorities and Indian and Danish research institutions. The Initiative ranges from various research projects to restorations of buildings from the colonial time and the collecting of ethnographical items to elucidate present daily life, as well as historical and ethnographical exhibit activities in Denmark and India.
More information about the Tranquebar projects.
Contact person: Dr. Esther Fihl
A new initiative was introduced by the Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in 2007, courses in Business relations. These courses, called Kulturstudier.dk are concerned with the meeting between different cultures, religions and languages and being designed to cater for businesses or organisations that are establishing themselves abroad, hiring foreign employees or are facing cultural problems in connection with enterprises in the non-Western World. More information about Kulturkurser.dk.
Contact person: Dr. Charlott Hoffmann Jensen
Researchers and teachers involved
in Asian studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen
University are taking part in a joint project with
colleagues at Lund University, and SASNET, to promote possibilities
to combine courses in Asian languages and religious studies
given on both sides of the Öresund. The so-called ØRNAST
educational cooperation project was formally inaugurated with
a ceremony at Copenhagen University on Tuesday 14 September
2004. The purpose behind ØRNAST is to strengthen East,
South-East and South Asian education and research at the universities
and university colleges involved in the Øresund University
Consortium.
More information on ØRNAST.
The Nordic Institute of Asian
Studies (NIAS), based at Copenhagen University, three times
a year offers Contact Scholarships for Nordic Graduate Students,
as well as Guest Researcher Scholarships for senior researchers
and postgraduate students based in the Nordic countries.
More
information on NIAS, and the scholarships it offers.
South Asian studies at Oslo University
Asian Studies at the University of Oslo
– The Faculty of Arts
at the University of Oslo offers a variety of programmes in
South Asia related Studies. The Institute
for Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
offers courses in three South Asian languages: Hindi, Sanskrit,
and Urdu.
– The Institute
for Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies (IAKH) offers courses in South Asian Studies, covering topics
as modern history, religion and political anthropology, with
a focus on India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and
with a thematic focus on the emergence of nationalism and
ethnic conflict in South Asia. More
information.
The Centre for Development
and the Environment (SUM – Senter for utvikling og miljø) is a
research institution formally under the University of Oslo. Since 2004, every year SUM organises a 20 credits course titled ”Development and the Environment: From Theory to Practice”. Attention is given to the relationship between North and South and to the political and commercial sides of development. A unique aspect of the course is that students will get a view from the South through lectures, discussions and excursions organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) during a one month stay in New Delhi, India. There, students are formed into groups and do research that lead to a common group report under the guidance of advisors from CSE. More information about courses offered by CSE’s Anil Agarwal Green College.
Other important
institutions in Norway regarding South Asian studies/development
studies
– Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen. One of the largest and oldest independent institutions
in Northern Europe for social science research and advisory
work on development and human rights issues in developing countries.
– International Peace Research
Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Conducts research within three main
themes: Conditions of War and Peace, Ethnic and Nationalist
Conflicts, and Foreign and Security Policies. The institute
also publishes a book series and two journals.
– The Dept. of International
Environment and Development Studies (NORAGRIC), at the Norwegian
University of Life Sciences in Ås, has a resource management
programme in cooperation with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme
in Northern Pakistan.
South Asian Studies programmes at other European universities
From September 2011, the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh introduces a new MSc program in South Asia and International Development. It will be the only UK postgraduate international development programme with an explicit South Asia
focus. This programme is linked to the University of Edinburgh's Global Development Academy, which fosters a dynamic
interdisciplinary community of scholars who are working in partnership throughout the world to tackle the most important issues facing
international development. Courses will provide analytical skills to help students to understand the processes that have shaped poverty and underdevelopment with particular reference to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The programme is interdisciplinary, combining rigorous training in analytical and qualitative methods with an emphasis on policy and practice as they relate to international development. It has two compulsory, core courses. They are ”Politics and Theories of International Development” and ”South Asia: the Roots of Poverty and Development”.
Contact person: Professor Patricia Jeffery (photo), MSc Programme Director, School of Social and Political Science.
Closing date for applications is 15th July 2011, but please note that it is in your interest to apply well before the closing date: Scholarship and funding schemes have different closing dates for application and generally require applicants to have a firm offer of a place at Edinburgh. The paperwork connected with visas and immigration takes time to process. More information on the program web page See also a poster for the programme.
Since 2008, the South Asia Institute at University of Heidelberg, Germany, runs an interdisciplinary Master's programme entitled ”Health and Society in South Asia”. The programme is a taught, two-year interdisciplinary degree with a focus on Medical Anthropology and South Asian Studies. It is intended for students who plan to work (or already work) in health-related fields but also for those who wish to pursue an academic career. The programme is administered by the Dept. of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute, specializing in Medical Anthropology, with various staff members conducting research on ritual healing, folk medicine, South Indian medicine, health and environment, Ayurveda, Tibetan Medicine, gender and health, women's reproductive health and Islam, and other topics. In the first semester, students are introduced to the main theories and research themes in the field of Medical Anthropology as well as to the major medical traditions and current health issues in South Asia. In the second semester all students are obliged to learn one South Asian language, and also receive training in research methods and presentation skills. The third semester is used for the extensive preparation of a practical field experience or a work placement, which will form the basis for the Master's thesis, which will be prepared and written over the fourth semester.
A new programme started in April 2010. More information.
Heidelberg University starts a new Master Programme Transcultural Studies
in October 2011. Across disciplines and national borders, students from
around the globe can explore the dynamics of cultural exchanges. The M.A. Transcultural Studies is an interdisciplinary programme in the
humanities and social sciences with a transregional focus. It offers a
wide range of courses taught in English within an international research
environment. Students are trained in transcultural theories and methods
as well as in the study of cross-cultural exchanges. During the programme
they can specialise in one of the three areas: "Society, Economy, and
Governance", "Visual, Media, and Material Culture", or "Knowledge,
Belief, and Religion". Each is cutting across disciplines and not
confined to one region.
Applicants must hold a B.A. or equivalent (minimum three years of study)
in a discipline of the humanities or social sciences. Furthermore,
proficiency in English and two more languages is required. The application deadline for international students is June 15, 2011.
More information on the programme and the application.
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK introduces a 2 years
MA programme in Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali
from September 2011. It will
be offered jointly by the Department of Anthropology and the Department
of South Asian Languages and Cultures. It is intended for students who wish to conduct doctoral-level research in Nepal, or in preparation for professional employment in e.g. a government agency or international NGO.
This is the only Masters-level programme offered anywhere in the world that provides students who intend to proceed to conduct anthropological research (broadly defined) in Nepal with the necessary skills (disciplinary, linguistic, methodological). Applicants will need to produce documented evidence of language learning ability (a language A level or equivalent, or successful completion of an undergraduate language course). More information.
Oxford University, UK, again organises a MSc in Contemporary India, a three-term, nine-month course. Deadline for applications for the current course was Friday 12 March 2010. This unique programme provides students with opportunities for a multidisciplinary immersion in knowledge about India’s signal achievements and her persistent problems, together with high quality training in research methods and in the critical analysis of theory in the main social science disciplines.
Students will develop or extend a knowledge and critical understanding of:
– the relationships between India’s development achievements and her persistent problems and the relevant academic scholarship and debates
– social science research methods, strategies and ethics that pertain to the study of contemporary India
– the principal theoretical ideas and paradigms with which research on contemporary India is conducted
critical analysis of sources and the capacity to present findings effectively, verbally and in sustained writing exercise
– the identification, execution and completion of a workable research topic
– the problems and potentials of interdisciplinarity
The degree is designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds, particularly the Social Sciences and History but not excluding any discipline. Undergraduate coursework on India or South Asia is not a prerequisite for admission. The course will serve as a valuable stand-alone training for those wishing to specialise in India, either out of academic interest or as preparation for work in the private sector, international organisations, government, NGOs, multi-lateral and bi-lateral aid and development agencies and media organisations. The course will also serve as first stage preparation for subsequent doctoral research on India. More information.
Summer/Winter schools on South Asia
South Asia Institute (SAI) at Heidelberg University organises intensive summer courses on Spoken Sanskrit, Nepali Intensive Course, Colloquial Tibetan and Manuscriptology between 1 - 26 August 2011. While the course on Spoken Sanskrit is long-established and will be held for the 12th time, Colloquial Tibetan is introduced for the first time this year.
All courses take place at the South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg, from August 01– 26: – Spoken Sanskrit (by Sadananda Das)
– Nepali Intensive (by Laxmi Nath Shrestha)
– Colloquial Tibetan (by Jonathan Samuels)
– Manuscriptology (by Saraju Rath)
The language courses focus on practicing conversation and communication skills that can be used during field research or daily situations. All teachers are leading professionals in their fields and have significant backround in teaching and research. The lessons are held in English, therefore knowledge of English at reasonable level is required. Each course gives 6 ETCS to the participants. For those who need accommodation in Heidelberg during the course, the University can assist with finding a budget option. The course fee including the training materials is 420 euro and is due by the 15 June 2011. Application is open from now until the 31 May 2011. Only 20 seats per course are available. The Summer Schools are organised jointly by Professor Birgit Kellner,
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", and
Professor Axel Michaels, Department of Cultural and Religious History
of
South Asia (Classical Indology), South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg. Full information.
The Puducherry (Pondicherry) Institute of Linguistics and Culture will hold its regular Tamil Summer School from 11 July - 20 August 2011. The summer school offers an intensive education in spoken Tamil language at basic and intermediate levels, and it combines classroom lessons with field visits so that the participants can practice at most their language skills in the course of studies. Registration is open from 1 March - 30 April 2011. Applications should be submitted by filling in this form and sending it to the director of the
Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture who can also be contacted for further questions and information. Preference for the course is given to researchers and University scholars.
The Tamil Summer School was initiated in 1998 by the Department of Social Sciences, French Institute, Puducherry to offer training to language researchers in Humanities and Social sciences. PILC has been organising this course since 2004. Read an article from The Hindu about the Tamil Summer School 2008, (with a photo by T. Singaravelou).
The medium of teaching is English as well as Tamil. The TSS focuses on Spoken Tamil rather than on the classical and written forms being taught in European Universities. The level of spoken Tamil course is INTERMEDIATE. More information (as pdf-file).
For the sixth year, the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, the Netherlands offers an Indological Programme during the period 18–29 July 2011. The Indological programme consists of four courses: – Features of Vedic poetry , and – The syntax of Vedic prose, both courses taught by Dr. Werner Knobl, University of Kyoto, Japan; a course on”Early Saiva Literature, taught by
Peter Bisschop, Leiden University; and a course on ”Readings in Gandhari Buddhist Literature, taught by
Stefan Baums, Leiden University. More information.
In June 2011, the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Netherlands organises its first Summer Programme in Asian Studies. The programme is entitled ”Heritage Conserved and Contested: Asian and European Perspectives”, and is organised in collaboration with Leiden University. The Summer Programme consists of two parts: a four-day masterclass with workshops for PhD-researchers and second year research master students, 20–23 June; and
a two-day PhD conference during which the selected PhD researchers will present their research, 24–25 June. Registration closes on the 15th of January 2011.
Research specialists from various academic backgrounds (social anthropology, history, archaeology, conservation studies including cultural resource management) will combine their expertise to provide participants with an intensive – yet interactive – experience. The theme of cultural heritage touches upon a wide array of knowledge forms and traditions (including those of local actors) while it also links theoretical frameworks with applied and policy-relevant knowledge and action. The programme will be run by two world-renown scholars in the fields of cultural heritage theory and cultural Asian history, respectively: Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) and Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden University). More information.
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) invites to its 17th ASEF University (AU17) with the theme “Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities”, to be held in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, 19–30 June 2011. The programme, co-organised with the University Sains Malaysia (USM), will gather up to 46 promising young people from Asia and Europe to explore their ideas on various topics related to the theme. During this two-week programme, the participants will discuss topics such as the notion of a shared Asia and Europe heritage, various initiatives in heritage management and engaging the youth in its preservation.
Since 1998, the ASEF University programme has facilitated intercultural exchanges among undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals from Asia and Europe. Since 2006, India and Pakistan are also included in the programme. One of the programme’s key successes is that it facilitates meaningful exchanges and lasting friendships among its participants. More information about the 17th ASEF University.
In response to the growing interest in contemporary India’s economy, society and politics, a one-week Summer School on Globalization and Development in India was launched in Torino, Italy in 2010. This year a second edition of the Summer School will run from Monday July 4th to Friday July 8th. The working language will be English and the programme is suitable for students and professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds.
The School is run by TOAsia, a unit established by the School of Political Science at University of Torino.
The summer
aims to provide in-depth knowledge and critical comprehension of key economic, social and political aspects of India’s development dynamics in the era of globalization, through a multidisciplinary approach. Any student or professional willing to explore the complex facets of the development process in globalizing India will be welcome.
The programme is available online, with details being added weekly. Applications will be accepted as from March 15th. Several scholarships are available, covering anything from tuition fees to accommodation and meals. More information about the summer school.
The Centre for Social Medicine (CSM) of Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Deemed University in Loni, Maharashtra, India invites international students admission to its one month Certificate Course in Social Health and Development. The course will commence from 15th July 2011. Admission are done on first come first serve basis. More information.
The Overseas Development Group (ODG), a charitable company
wholly owned by the University of East Anglia, Norwich,
UK, regularly organizes short courses for development
professionals, some of them during the Spring–Summer 2010,
on subjects like ”Climate Change and Development” (September); ”Management Information Systems for M&E” (16–27 August); ”Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities” (dates still to be decided); and a number of other Professional Development Programmes.
More
information about the ODG professional courses 2010.
EURASIA-Net, a programme for ”Europe-South Asia Exchange
on Supranational (Regional) Policies and Instruments
for the Promotion of Human Rights
and the Management of Minority Issues” (funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission) organised its Second Transregional Summer School in Kathmandu, Nepal, 17–28 august 2009.
EURASIA-Net was established in February 2008. The networking programme has a mission to improve cooperation and exchange between European and South Asian scholars and to improve circulation of South Asian research results in the field of supra-national instruments for the promotion of human and minority rights within the European scientific community and vice versa. Eventually it could lead up to the establishment of a ”South Asian Council on Minorities” within the SAARC organisation. The programme is coordinated by the Institute for Minority Rights at the European Academy Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) in Italy. More information on EURASIA-Net.
The focus of the 2009 Summer School was Religious Minorities, an issue perceived as extremely relevant within public fora and civil society discourse in South Asia. Another key subject will be Nepal, where recent developments have opened the path to new constitutional reforms in Nepal. Moreover, lectures on the standards on minority and human rights in Europe and in South Asia (including the role of SAARC), soft law mechanisms, concepts of federalism and autonomy (including case studies, e.g., South Tyrol and Kashmir), indigenous rights and ethnic diversity both in Europe and South Asia will complete the overall programme. The Summer School is open to indicatively 20 researchers, civil servants, politicians, activists and other stakeholders (e.g. media) dealing with human and minority rights issues from Europe and South Asia.
Venue: Dulikhel Mountain Resort, about 30 km from Kathmandu, Nepal.
More information on the 2009 Summer School.
South Asian Student Associations in Sweden
The Pakistani Student Association (PSA) in Sweden (Pakistanska Studentkåren i Sverige) is a federation of fully autonomous, self-functioning associations in different cities of Sweden. Currently (February 2008) there are the following PSAs, each with their own website:
Chalmers Islamiska Föreningen;
PSA Blekinge (BTH);
PSA Halmstad; PSA Linköping;
PSA Lund; and
PSA Stockholm. Besides, Pakistani students at Karlstad University and Umeå University co-ordinate their activities through mailing lists.
The aim of PSA is to facilitate Pakistani students coming to universities in Sweden by providing practical information to the students and collaborating with relevant authorities; to play a role in promoting the culture of Pakistan and clearing misconceptions about it, by inviting people from other countries to our cultural events; and to promote awareness amongst the Pakistani students about the Swedish society by arranging information sessions.
Association of Indian students at Linköping (AISL)
is a group of graduate students of Indian origin studying
at the Linköping University, Sweden. The association
aims to create a social network amongst the Indian community
on campus and give them an opportunity to continue enjoying
typically Indian customs and traditions, here in the Sweden.
The website provides lots of useful information for Indian
students coming to Sweden.
Association of Bangladeshi Students (ABS), based at
Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University.
Established in 2003 to strengthen Sweden-Bangladesh educational
and cultural network and to explore scholarship/funding
opportunities for Bangladeshi students. ASB also publishes
a newsletter. A celebration of the Bengali New Year 1415 was held in Gothenburg on Sunday 4 May 2008. For the fourth year in a row
it was organised by ABS. It included a cultural programme with songs and
dance performances. The Honorable Ambassador of Bangladesh
in Scandinavia, Mr. Muhammad Azizul Haque, held a speech,
and a traditional Bangladeshi dinner was served. Venue: Chalmers University of Technology,
Gothenburg. More
information.
SASNET - Swedish South Asian Studies Network/Lund
University
Address: Scheelevägen 15 D, SE-223 70 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 46 222 73 40
Webmaster: Lars Eklund
Last updated
2011-08-31
During the spring 2011, the 
During a number of years, CEAS has arranged a 10
credits special course called ”South
Asia today”, involving a large number
of the South Asia specialists at Gothenburg University,
including Björn Hettne, Camilla Orjuela, Gunilla Blomquist,
Bent Jörgensen,
Monica Erwér and Jan Johansson.
Museion, a Gothenburg University
program co-operating with several University departments and
the Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet),
offers a Masters programme in International Museum Studies,
and several South Asia related undergraduate courses focusing
on Globalization; Power and Marginalization; and Knowledge
and Communication. Some of them are South Asia related. 
Folk high school in Värmland, with a long tradition of collaboration with Karlstad University. Organises every year a one-year course entitled ”Filosofi och Världsbild”, focusing on western philosophy and history of ideas as well as Indian history and some of its religions. Besides that the course offers a five week travel to northern India were the students get the opportunity to meet lecturers on Indian philosophy e g Buddhism, Saivism and Advaita. It also includes studies on the political history of India and gender studies, and visits to important historical sites as Agra, Delhi and Varanasi. 
Every year, Karlstad University in collaboration with
the 
The 
A 7,5 credits course titled ”Gender issues in Developing Countries”
was again held in the Fall 2009 (16 November – 12 December). It was
organised by the Department of Land and Water Resources Engineering,
and aims at imparting integrated theoretical
and practical knowledge on gender and development issues in the
South to students, researchers, teachers and development practitioners
in different kinds of agencies in Sweden. 
An
80 credits International Master of Science programme on Water
System Technology was launched in 2007.
The aim of the programme is to explore all major aspects
of use and protection of available water resources. The programme
deals with all the complexities, challenges and opportunities in
water resources management through water systems approaches and
will allow participants to focus particular attention on preferred
problem areas. It is jointly organised by the 
A
new World course (”Världens kurs med
Indienresa 2008”) on Justice, Peace and Environment,
including a three weeks tour to north India, will again be arranged by
Ljungskile Folk High school during the period 15 August 2011 – 15 January 2012. The tour includes a stay at the village folk
high school Jagriti Vihara in Ranchi, Jharkhand. 
Lund University launched a new Bachelor of Science programme in Development Studies with a major in Economic History, Human
Geography, Political Science or Sociology in September 2009. The programme is interdisciplinary and focuses on economic, social and political processes and their linkages to development cooperation. The duration of the programme is three years. It is jointly organised by the 
Lund University Education – the university's company for
commissioned education – offers a number of English-language
educational training programmes funded by the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, to be held in
the Fall 2010 – Spring 2011. 
–
The advanced International training programme on ”
–
A training programme on ”
Lund
University introduced a new 120 ECTS (80 Swedish credits) International
Masters programme in applied Development and Management (LUMID)
in 2006. LUMID is open to students both
from Sweden and the rest of the world who wish to prepare for
a career in international aid and development cooperation,
or wishing to further their academic studies with this profile.
Through the assistance of te Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (Sida), LUMID is able to offer students
field based courses in project and programme management. The
two-year programme is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund
University, but multidisciplinarity is accomplished
through teachers’ teams recruited from a number of faculties. 
From 2007 the Master Programme in Asian Studies at Lund University
follows the Bologna model and runs for four consecutive semesters,
consisting of 120 ECTS credits. The programme has been
successfully run at Lund University since the Fall 2003. It is an interdisciplinary programme,
focusing on political, economic, social, and cultural issues in
Asia. It is the only English language programme of its kind in
the Nordic countries. The programme is aimed at students who after
their undergraduate studies want to gain area expertise on contemporary
Asian societies. The programme is divided into two tracks,
one for East and South East Asian studies, and one for South Asian
studies, and is administered by the Centre
for East and South-East Asian Studies (ACE) at
Lund University. In India, the programme collaborates with the Institute of Social Sciences in New Delhi. 
IIIEE is also a partner institution in the Erasmus
Mundus programme on Environmental Science, Policy and Management (
A
36 weeks trainee programme on Ecology
and Global Solidarity is again arranged during the period August 2011 – May 2012.
The programme is intended for students who already have a degree in development studies or environmental studies. It is organised by Nordens Folkhögskola in collaboration with the Swedish
NGO 
The 
A 60 credits (90 ECTS credits) interdisciplinary Master’s
Programme in South
Asian Studies – Cultural Pluralism, Political Institutions
and Socio-economic Processes, was run at
Uppsala University during the years 2002–04. The three
semesters programme was located within the disciplinary domain
of Arts and Sciences, brings together the disciplines of Indology,
Political Science, History, Religion, Cultural Anthropology
and Ethnology, Economics, and Peace and Conflict Research (but
based at
the 
A
one-year course on India/South
Asia is arranged every
year since 2001. Till 2007, it was organised as an academic undergraduate social science course in co-operation with the 
Albins Folk high school in Landskrona offers a one-year full-time course entitled ”
For the ninth time the course
'Contemporary India' was held in the Summer 2011 (12 June – 9 July) at the
University of Hyderabad, in collaboration with the
Nordic Centre in India. The course, running for four weeks, was tailor-made for Nordic students and introduces issues
of politics, culture and economy. It consists of the following
five parts: Introductory course: The diversity of
India:
The political system and questions of identity:
Globalisation and the economy focusing on the city of Hyderabad:
Development, environment and human rights: and Indian
literature and cinema. The students coming from most Nordic
countries (and universities that are members of the Nordic
Centre in India) are given board and lodging in an excellent
guest house. Each member university nominated their candidates
and reserves on this course. 
For the fifth year, NCI offered a 7.5 ECTS summer course on environmental issues in India, in Bangalore during the period 10 July – 6 August 2011. The course titled “Approaching
the Environment in India. New theories and methods in the study of the nature-society interface”, was organised in collaboration
with the 
For the fifth year, NCI also offered a 7.5 ECTS summer course on “Demography,
Gender and Reproductive Health”, in Mumbai during the period 10 July to 6 August 2011. It was an an introduction to population studies
in India, organised in collaboration with the 
Twice a year 
A new initiative was introduced by the Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in 2007, courses in Business relations. These courses, called Kulturstudier.dk are concerned with the meeting between different cultures, religions and languages and being designed to cater for businesses or organisations that are establishing themselves abroad, hiring foreign employees or are facing cultural problems in connection with enterprises in the non-Western World. 
The 
From September 2011, the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh introduces a new MSc program in South Asia and International Development. It will be the only UK postgraduate international development programme with an explicit South Asia
focus. This programme is linked to the University of Edinburgh's Global Development Academy, which fosters a dynamic
interdisciplinary community of scholars who are working in partnership throughout the world to tackle the most important issues facing
international development. Courses will provide analytical skills to help students to understand the processes that have shaped poverty and underdevelopment with particular reference to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The programme is interdisciplinary, combining rigorous training in analytical and qualitative methods with an emphasis on policy and practice as they relate to international development. It has two compulsory, core courses. They are ”Politics and Theories of International Development” and ”South Asia: the Roots of Poverty and Development”.
Contact person: Professor 
Since 2008, the South Asia Institute at University of Heidelberg, Germany, runs an interdisciplinary Master's programme entitled ”Health and Society in South Asia”. The programme is a taught, two-year interdisciplinary degree with a focus on Medical Anthropology and South Asian Studies. It is intended for students who plan to work (or already work) in health-related fields but also for those who wish to pursue an academic career. The programme is administered by the 
Heidelberg University starts a new Master Programme Transcultural Studies
in October 2011. Across disciplines and national borders, students from
around the globe can explore the dynamics of cultural exchanges. The M.A. Transcultural Studies is an interdisciplinary programme in the
humanities and social sciences with a transregional focus. It offers a
wide range of courses taught in English within an international research
environment. Students are trained in transcultural theories and methods
as well as in the study of cross-cultural exchanges. During the programme
they can specialise in one of the three areas: "Society, Economy, and
Governance", "Visual, Media, and Material Culture", or "Knowledge,
Belief, and Religion". Each is cutting across disciplines and not
confined to one region.
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK introduces a 2 years
MA programme in Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali
from September 2011. It will
be offered jointly by the Department of Anthropology and the Department
of South Asian Languages and Cultures. It is intended for students who wish to conduct doctoral-level research in Nepal, or in preparation for professional employment in e.g. a government agency or international NGO.
Oxford University, UK, again organises a MSc in Contemporary India, a three-term, nine-month course. Deadline for applications for the current course was Friday 12 March 2010. This unique programme provides students with opportunities for a multidisciplinary immersion in knowledge about India’s signal achievements and her persistent problems, together with high quality training in research methods and in the critical analysis of theory in the main social science disciplines.
The Summer Schools are organised jointly by Professor Birgit Kellner,
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", and
Professor Axel Michaels, Department of Cultural and Religious History
of
South Asia (Classical Indology), South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg. 
The Puducherry (Pondicherry) Institute of Linguistics and Culture will hold its regular Tamil Summer School from 11 July - 20 August 2011. The summer school offers an intensive education in spoken Tamil language at basic and intermediate levels, and it combines classroom lessons with field visits so that the participants can practice at most their language skills in the course of studies. Registration is open from 1 March - 30 April 2011. Applications should be submitted by filling in 
For the sixth year, the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, the Netherlands offers an Indological Programme during the period 18–29 July 2011. The Indological programme consists of four courses: – Features of Vedic poetry , and – The syntax of Vedic prose, both courses taught by Dr. Werner Knobl, University of Kyoto, Japan; a course on”Early Saiva Literature, taught by
Peter Bisschop, Leiden University; and a course on ”Readings in Gandhari Buddhist Literature, taught by
Stefan Baums, Leiden University. 
In June 2011, the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Netherlands organises its first Summer Programme in Asian Studies. The programme is entitled ”Heritage Conserved and Contested: Asian and European Perspectives”, and is organised in collaboration with Leiden University. The Summer Programme consists of two parts: a four-day masterclass with workshops for PhD-researchers and second year research master students, 20–23 June; and
a two-day PhD conference during which the selected PhD researchers will present their research, 24–25 June. Registration closes on the 15th of January 2011. 
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) invites to its 17th ASEF University (AU17) with the theme “Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities”, to be held in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, 19–30 June 2011. The programme, co-organised with the University Sains Malaysia (USM), will gather up to 46 promising young people from Asia and Europe to explore their ideas on various topics related to the theme. During this two-week programme, the participants will discuss topics such as the notion of a shared Asia and Europe heritage, various initiatives in heritage management and engaging the youth in its preservation. 
In response to the growing interest in contemporary India’s economy, society and politics, a one-week Summer School on Globalization and Development in India was launched in Torino, Italy in 2010. This year a second edition of the Summer School will run from Monday July 4th to Friday July 8th. The working language will be English and the programme is suitable for students and professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds.
The Centre for Social Medicine (CSM) of Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Deemed University in Loni, Maharashtra, India invites international students admission to its one month Certificate Course in Social Health and Development. The course will commence from 15th July 2011. Admission are done on first come first serve basis. 
The Overseas Development Group (ODG), a charitable company
wholly owned by the 
