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Reviews from the SASNET symposium The SASNET symposium for Swedish PhD students and post-docs engaged
in research related to South Asia took place on 25–27 October 2002,
at Marstrands Varmbadhus, north of Göteborg. The sessions were devoted
to discuss the situation of PhD students in South Asian Studies or South
Asia relevant studies (recruitment, fieldwork, supervision, finishing,
post-doc situation). Programme, participants list and basis for discussions
are available on our web page http://www.sasnet.lu.se/phdsymp.html.
Reviews from the sessions and the group discussions will aso be published
– some of them are there already.
• Panels suggestions to the EASAS conference
at Lund 2004 Invitations for the 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian
Studies at Lund University 6–9 July 2004 has now been sent out to
researchers around the World. Scholars engaged in research and teaching
concerning South Asia with regard to all periods and fields of study are
welcome to take part in the conference, which is organised by SASNET,
on behalf of the European Association
for South Asian Studies, EASAS. Suggestions for panels should be delivered
before 30 June, 2003. More information on our conference
invitation page.
Community News:
• The Swallows announces
position as Coordinator The Swedish non-governmental organisation Svalorna (The Swallows)
announces a vacant position as Coordinator in charge of the India-Bangladesh
section head office in Lund. The Swallows which co-operates with and supports
local NGOs in India and Bangladesh is neither affiliated to any political
party nor any religious denomination. Last date for applications: 18 November,
2002.
• Position as Director of the Nordic Centre
in India announced The Nordic consortium designated Nordic Centre in India (NCI), formally
established in 2001, advertises the post as Director for NCI. The Director
may be based in the Nordic region, but will be required to spend 6 weeks
or more in India every year. Thus, skills in both English and in a Scandinavian
language are required. The position is currently a part time position,
covering 25 p.c. workload. Last date for applications: 1 December, 2002.
See
the full announcement.
• Position as Coordinator at the Seminar for
Development Studies announced A part-time position is announced as Coordinator at the Seminar for
Development Studies (SDS), Uppsala University, from January 1, 2003. The
person will, together with the other part-time Coordinator, Heidi Moksnes,
be responsible for planning and administrating the activities at SDS.
SDS is part of the Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University,
and holds an ”environment grant” from Sida/Sarec. Last date
for applications: 9 December, 2002. See the announcement (in Swedish).
• NoFSA-NET invites Nordic researchers to
join network The board for the mailing-list NoFSA-NET, Norwegian Forum for South
Asia, in collaboration with SASNET, has decided to change the name of
the network into Nordic Forum for South Asia, opening up the mailing-list
for participants from all the Nordic countries. Scholars, students and
other persons interested in South Asian studies are invited to join NoFSA-NET.
More information.
• Division of Industrial Ergonomics in Luleå
closes down The Division of Industrial Ergonomics, at the Department of Human
Work Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, will be closed down
in March 2003, and their Internationally recognized M.Sc. programme in
Ergonomics will close down at the same time. Several students from Bangladesh,
India, and Sri Lanka have graduated from this M.Sc. programme since it
started in 1989. The closing-down is related to the retirement of both
Prof Houshang Shahnavaz, the head of department (in March 2003) and of
Associate Prof. John Abeysekera (in 2002). More
information on the department.
• Fellowship positions at the University of
Washington announced Invitations for two fellowship positions at the University of Washington,
U.S. for the 2003-04 academic year has been announced by the University’s
Critical Asian Studies: Forum on Trauma, History, and “Asia”,
in partnership with the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Scholars, intellectuals,
activists, artists, and lawyers, dealing with South Asian issues are welcome
to apply. Deadline for application is 10 December, 2002. More
information.
• SSAAPS invites for applicationsfor
PhD student positions
The Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS) invites for
applications for a maximum of six PhD student positions for the fall term
2003. Students who are planning to pursue doctoral studies at Swedish
university departments that provide economic, cultural, political and
social perspectives on developments in the Asia Pacific region (note!
the South Asian countries excluded!) are eligible to apply. Deadline
for applications: 15 December 2002.
• Ellen Kristvik defended dissertation on
Nepali sex workers Ellen Kristvik from the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of
Oslo, defended her doctoral thesis on ”Nepali Sex Workers: Narratives
of Violence and Agency” on Friday 8 November, 2002. Faculty opponents
were Dr. Sophie Day, Goldsmiths University, London, and Dr. Tone Bleie,
Christian Michelsens institutt, Bergen. More
information.
• Seminar series on South Asian religion at
Uppsala University A Seminar series on South Asian religion is arranged by Professor
Peter Schalk at Uppsala University in November–December 2002. More
information on the seminars.
In one of the seminars, on 2 December, PhD candidate T L Amirtalinkam
Cellaiya from the Dept of Theology; History of Religions, presents his
coming dissertation on the Worship of the Tamil God Murukan. Read
synopsis of the dissertation.
• Ghulam Abbas’ short story Hotel Moenjodaro
republished The Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas already in 1967 foresaw today’s
development of fundamentalist forces in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region.
Khalid Hasan has written on the short story Hotel Moenjodaro in
Friday Times (Lahore). SASNET republishes. Go
for the article.
• Hindu.dk temporarily off the net after hacker’s
attack The ambitious Danish web site on Hinduism, hindu.dk, created by the
anthropologist Lars Kjærholm and a team of scholars connected to
the University of Aarhus, has temporarily been taken off from the web
due to a serious case of hacking at the server. The site will however
soon reappear in a revised and expanded form on a new server, and all
text will be duplicated in English.
Conferences
and courses
• Conference on Nonviolence Researchat
Tromsø University
A conference on Nonviolence Research will be held at the Centre
for Peace Studies (CPS) http://www.peace.uit.no/ at Tromsø
University, Norway, 28–30 November, 2002. The conference will focus
at nonviolent research in large-scale nonviolent actions, case studies,
evaluation of nonviolent interventions, social defence and related topics.
More information from the organiser Jørgen
Johansen.
• Papers invited for Social Science History
Conference The Fifth European Social Science History Conference takes place
at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 24 - 27 March 2004. The conference
aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical
phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is
characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by
formal plenary sessions.
The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical
period. It is organised in a large number of networks, including such
as: Asia; Culture; Ethnicity and Migration; Family and Demography; Geography;
Health; Nations and Nationalism; and Social Inequality. More
information.
• Seminar on Livestock
Revolution Potentials in Developing countries The Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University invites
to a seminar with Associate Professor Birgitta Malmfors, Dept of Animal
Breeding and Genetics, SLU, Uppsala, on Wednesday 20 November, 10.15–12.00.
She will lecture on ”The Livestock Revolution Potentials of Animal
Genetic Resources in Developing countries”. Venue: Clasonsalen,
Övre Slottsgatan 1.
• Symposium on Developing Participation 19
November in Stockholm A symposium on ”Developing Participation – Challenges for
Policy and Practice in Approaches to Poverty Reduction and Democratisation”
is arranged in Stockholm on Tuesday 19 November, 2002, 9.00–17.00.
The symposium includes lectures by Dr John Gaventa, Institute of Development
Studies, Sussex, U K, and Dr Ranjula Bali Swain, Dept of Economics, Uppsala
University, and it is organised by Sida and the Collegium for Development
Studies, Uppsala University. Venue: Hotel Victory, Lilla Nygatan 5, Stockholm.
• Professor Prakash Sarangi lectures at Uppsala The Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University invites
to a lecture by Professor Prakash Sarangi, University of Hyderabad, India,
Thursday, 28 November, 14.15-16.00. The theme will be ”Globalised
Economy and Localised politics – Exploring the New Trends in the
Indian Party system”. Venue: Akademihotellet, Övre Slottsgatan
5, room 2. Prof Sarangi’s paper
is available (as a pdf-file).
News on courses and education
• A Classical Tamil Winter School in Pondicherry
The Centre of the Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
in Pondicherry, India, organizes a Classical Tamil Winter school 20
January
– 15 February, 2003, with the collaboration of Eva Wilden,
Hamburg University. The participants will get a basic knowledge of modern
Tamil or another Dravidian language.
Useful library resources
• SciDev.Net’s Regional Gateway for South
and East Asia,
presents news, feature articles and Opinion texts, including Research
papers, on Science, Technology, and Development. Very useful service,
sponsored by Nature and Science magazines, in association with the Third
World Academy of Sciences. SciDev.Net is published with financial support
of the UK Department for International Development, the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency, and the International Development Research
Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Go
for the web page.
• Experiencedevelopment.org is a Brittish web based information resource set up independently
for students looking to enter the international development sector professionally.
It was set up as a non-profit enterprise, funded by five university departments
and an NGO eager to help students acquire up to date information. The
site is independently managed by its creator Matthew Ide. Go
for the web page.
New and updated items on SASNET
web site
• More Swedish departments where research
on South Asia is going on: Added to the list of research environments at Swedish universities,
presented by SASNET. The full list now includes more than 70 departments.
Go to the presentation page, http://www.sasnet.lu.se/environment.html.
• Several new articles recommended for reading
Look at http://www.sasnet.lu.se/recreading.html
for suggestions on interesting new articles on South Asia in International
media.
• Travel advises by Swedish and Brittish Foreign
Offices
SASNET’s web page with lots of useful information on travelling to
South Asia, http://www.sasnet.lu.se/travelling.html
is constantly updated.
Noteworthy are the Swedish Foreign
Office’s recommendations against travelling to Afghanistan; Nepal;
and Pakistan; as well as certain parts of India (Jammu och Kashmir, Himachal
Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, and the western
parts of Rajasthan).
The Brittish Foreign
& Commonwealth Office differs in its recommendations: They do
not rule out travelling to Nepal in general, as well as essential visits
to Pakistan and safe parts of Kabul city (Afghanistan), and regarding
India the Brittish advise against travelling only to one state (Jammu
& Kashmir, except Ladakh), and besides that only to the border regions
of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Ladakh. On the other hand the Brittish
still advise against travelling to the north and east parts of Sri Lanka.
Cultural Events connected to South
Asia in Scandinavia
• Yoga and Meditation on exhibition in Norrköping The exhibition ”Gud har 99 namn”, produced by Riksutställningar
and Sensus is still on tour through Sweden. More
information.
Till 24 November, 2002, the exhibition is shown at Arbetets Museum in
Norrköping. As part of it the Indian Architect and practitioner of
Vedic traditions Krishna Desai will lecture on ”Yoga and Meditation”,
on Tuesday 19 November, 18–20.30.
• World Aids Day International Fair at Oslo
Innvandrerenes Helse- og Sosialgruppe, IHSG – a Norwegian network
of professionals from different areas within commerce, art/culture, media
and the public sector – organises thefirst World Aids Day
International Fair on 15 December 2002, 13.00 - 23.00. Venue: Studentersamfundet
Chateau Neuf, Slemdalsveien 7, Oslo.
Best regards
Staffan Lindberg Lars
Eklund
SASNET/ Swedish South Asian Studies Network
SASNET is a national network
for research, education, and information about South Asia, based at
Lund University. The aim is to encourage and promote an open and dynamic
networking process, in which Swedish researchers co-operate with researchers
in South Asia and globally.
The network is open to all sciences. Priority is given to co-operation
between disciplines and across faculties, as well as institutions in
the Nordic countries and in South Asia. The basic idea is that South
Asian studies will be most fruitfully pursued in co-operation between
researchers, working in different institutions with a solid base in
their mother disciplines.
The network is financed by Sida (Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency) and by Lund
University.
Postal address: SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies Network,
International Office,
Lund University, P O Box 117, S-221 00 Lund Visiting address: Gamla Kirurgen, Sandgatan 3, first floor,
room no. 230 Phone: + 46 46 222 73 40 Fax: + 46 46 222 96 65 E-mail:sasnet@sasnet.lu.se Web site:
http://www.sasnet.lu.se Our office is manned weekdays 9-17, and open to visitors.
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University
Address: Scheelevägen 15 D, SE-223 70 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 46 222 73 40
Webmaster: Lars Eklund
Last updated
2010-10-26
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Reviews from the SASNET symposium 