• 1 February deadline for applications
to the Masters programme in South Asian Studies
A 90 ECTS Masters Programme in Asian Studies will be run for the second
time at Lund University during the study year 2004-05. The programme,
run by SASNET and the Centre for East and SouthEast Asian Studies at Lund
University, focuses on the rapid development of Asian societies over the
last decades, and looks specifically at major contemporary issues confronting
the region, its governments and its peoples. It is multi-disciplinary
and addresses a broad range of topics such as economic development, social
change, the dynamic tension between tradition and transformation, and
the problems of migration and urbanisation, among others, both from chronological
and thematic perspectives.
Students choose to follow one of two independent tracks within the framework
of the programme: East and South-East Asian studies or South Asian studies.
Each track admits 30 students. Deadline for applications for admission
is February 1, 2004. More information.
• Time to register for the EASAS conference
before 1 February 2004
Last date for registration to the 18th EASAS conference is 1 February
2004. A registration form, which includes details on how to pay the conference
fee, is available at the conference web page, http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASAS18.html
• Limited number of travel and accommodation
grants available
Two categories of participants to the 18th EASAS conference in Lund are
eligible to apply for the limited number of travel and accommodation grants
available, namely:
1/ Panel convenors from South Asia and Eastern Europe who need financial
support to attend the conference; and
2/ Younger researchers from South Asia and Eastern Europe who need financial
support to attend the conference, and has got his/her paper accepted by
a panel (maximum one scholarship per panel).
The applying panel convenor or young researcher, should submit a copy
of the paper that has been accepted for the conference, along with his/her
CV, and a confirmation that the paper has been accepted by a panel. Applications
have to reach the secretariat, by e-mail (sasnet@sasnet.lu.se)
or by post (SASNET, Scheelevagen 15, SE-223 70 Lund, Sweden) no later
than 1 February 2004, which is also the closing date for registration.
The grants consist of getting flight tickets to and from Lund, plus food
and accommodation during the conference period. Only few travel and accommodation
grants are available, and we therefore advise anybody who really desires
to participate in the conference to secure funding from other sources.
• Schedules fixed for the panels to
the 18th EASAS conference The 18th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies,
organized by SASNET and Lund University, 6–9 July 2004, will have
a total number of 49 panels, covering a wide scope of research fields.
Please note that individual researchers who like to present papers at
the 18th EASAS conference should contact the convenor of the panel into
which his/her paper fits. Each panel has a convenor who organizes the
panel autonomously. All communications regarding the panels content should
therefore be directed directly to the panel organizers, and not to the
executive conference committee. Last date for registration and submission
of papers is 1 February 2004. The schedules are now fixed. Go
for the panels schedules page with links to abstracts.
• Hotel accommodation for
participants to the 18th EASAS conference
The conference will arrange lodging only for those persons who receive
a travel and accommodation grant to attend. Other participants must arrange
and pay for their own lodging. There are however several alternatives
for accommodation.
Rooms have been booked in advance for participants in the 18th EASAS conference
at all hotels in town. When making the final reservation you should therefore
mention the booking code mentioned in SASNET’s directory of hotels
and youth hostels available at Lund.
• SASNET’s web site working
again The SASNET web master Lars Eklund has been severely ill due to a severe
pneumonia, which he caught while on holiday in South Asia. Therefore no
changes have been made on the web site for quite some time. From 26 January
he is however back in office and hopefully the flow on the web site will
be back to normal within a short time.
•
SASNET contact journey to Pakistan and Afghanistan The SASNET director Professor Staffan Lindberg, and deputy director/webmaster
Lars Eklund successfully completed their contact journey to Pakistan and
Afghanistan lasting from Thursday 20 November – Sunday 7 December
2003.
The aim of the tour was to link up the SASNET activities with universities
and research institutions in the two countries, They visited Karachi,
Islamabad, and Lahore in Pakistan; and Kabul in Afghanistan. It turned
out to be an extremely fruitful journey, both building on the already
existing academic links between a few researchers/institutions in Sweden
and Pakistan, and promoting new forms of cooperation there as well as
in Afghanistan. Full reports on the journey will soon appear on the SASNET
web site.
• Next round for SASNET planning grants
in June 2004
The coming round for SASNET planning grants, which should have had its
deadline in November, has been cancelled. The decision was taken by the
SASNET Board at its meeting on 26 August. Instead applications are invited
for the first round in 2004. Closing date for applications is 15 June,
2004. More information.
Community News:
•
Nordic Centre in India offers accommodation in Delhi.
The Nordic University consortium designated Nordic Centre in India (NCI),
formally established in 2001, is still waiting for clearance from the
Indian government. However it already provides accommodation for Nordic
students, researchers, teachers and administrators who are engaged with
Indian/South Asian topics, and provides with a well-equipped flat in the
Nizamuddin East area in South Delhi. The fee is 300 Norwegian Kronor per
night and person. More information on
the Nordic Centre and its flat in New Delhi.
• NIAS Contact Scholarships for Nordic Graduate
Students The Nordic Institute for Asian Studies offer scholarships
designed to make NIAS‚ library and other resources accessible to
graduate students in the Nordic countries. A scholarship covers inexpensive
travel to and from Copenhagen and accommodation in a NIAS room at Nordisk
Kollegium, with full board for a period of two weeks. It must be noted
that because only one room at the Nordisk Kollegium is available for this
scholarship programme, stays are arranged subject to a time schedule administered
by NIAS. Monday 5 April 2004 for scholarships during the period May-June
and August-September 2004. More information.
• NIAS Guest Researcher Scholarships
Senior researchers and postgraduate students based in the Nordic countries
are offered scholarships, giving an opportunity to work at NIAS as an
affiliated researcher for 2 or 4 weeks. A scholarship includes inexpensive
travel to and from Copenhagen and accommodation with full board in a NIAS
room at Nordisk Kollegium. The guest researcher enjoys full access to
the Institute’s library services and research tools, computer facilities,
contact networks and scholarly environment. Monday 5 April 2004 for scholarships
during the period May-June and August-September 2004. More
information.
Educational News:
• Summer course for Nordic students
in Hyderabad, India The Nordic Centre in India organises a four-weeks summer course
for Nordic students on ”Contemporary India” in Hyderabad,
India, in July 2004. The course, which was run also last year, is is organised
by the Study India
Programme at the University of Hyderabad, and is open to students
from all Nordic universities and institutions of higher learning. Students
from from the NCI member institutions can join the course at a much reduced
cost compared to other participants. More
information on the Hyderabad summer course.
• Internet-based course on ”Globalisation
and Transformation in a Comparative Perspective” Lund University and its Department of Sociology coordinates
an international Internet-based course on ”Globalisation and Transformation
in a Comparative Perspective”. Seven universities in four countries
(Bulgaria, Germany, Romania and Sweden) have since 1999 been involved
in the project funded by the European Union.
From 2004 the project expands into Asia, by bringing in partner universities
in China, Vietnam and India – Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi;
and the University of Mumbai. The International Masters programme has
also been transformed into two part-time courses, with 30 ECTS credits
each. Teachers and students are supposed to come from all the countries
involved, and already students from Varanasi participate. Students and
teachers from the departments of Sociology and Political science at the
University of Mumbai will also take part from the Fall 2004.
• Third Heidelberg Summer school to be held
in July–August 2004 The third University of Heidelberg Summer School in South Asian studies
will be held this summer from 24 July – 14 August 2004. The themes
of the course are: Modern South Asia: Analyzing Political, Economic and
Cultural Change; Thematic Modules: South Asia and the Impact of a Globalized
Economy, Politics, Past and Present; and Society and Culture in a Changing
South Asia. The course is based on lectures, group work, roundtable discussions
as well as one week of guided research and will be addressing historical,
political, and religious aspects of the region as well as questions of
the economy and development. Cooperation partners include: Dr. Willem
van der Geest (EIAS), Prof. Roger Jeffery (University of Edinburgh), Prof.
Subrata K. Mitra (University of Heidelberg), Prof. Pamela Gwynne Price
(University of Oslo), and Dr. Marie Saglio-Yatzimirsky (INALCO).
• SEPHIS offers fellowship at research
centre in Bangalore
The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) at Bangalore, India,
offers a fellowship awarded by SEPHIS (The Dutch-sponsored South–South
Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) to
a student from any country in the South to spend one academic year in
Bangalore, beginning July 2004. The main purpose of the fellowship programme
is to help develop alternative frameworks for research and teaching as
well as new theoretical paradigms that take into account the specific
experiences of non-Western societies. The student can either register
with CSCS for the Ph.D. in Cultural Studies (validated by the Manipal
Academy of Higher Education, MAHE, a deemed Indian university, and also
by Kuvempu University, a Karnataka State institution) or register in his/her
own country and do the CSCS coursework for two semesters. Complete applications
must reach CSCS before 15 February 2004. Candidates will be informed of
the outcome by 15 March 2004.
Important lectures and seminars
• Seminar on ”Religion and Politics
in South and Southeast Asia” at Lund University A Seminar on 'Religion and Politics in South and Southeast Asia.
The latest evelopments – analyses and perspectives' is arranged
at Lund Universityon Friday 30 January 2004, 9.00 –
18.00.Jan Hjärpe, Ahmed Gholam and Stig Toft Madsen
will speak in the morning session, and in the afternoon session there
will be lectures by Catarina Kinnvall and Ann Kull. Between 15 –
16 there will be panel discussion between the lecturers with participation
of Catharina Raudvere and Staffan Lindberg. At 16.30 the film 'Father,
Son and Holy War – a documentary film on hindutva' will be
shown. Venue: Samarkand, AF, Sandgatan, Lund. After the seminar there
will be a reception at the Centre for Theology and Religion, Allhelgona
Kyrkogata 8, second floor. To register for the reception contact: Leif
Stenberg or Sidsel Hansson.
Conferences
and courses
• Workshop on Cultural studies in Bangalore The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC),
in collaboration with the ENRECA programme of DANIDA (Denmark) and SEPHIS
(the Netherlands) holds its ninth Cultural Studies Workshop 2–7
February 2004 in Bangalore, India. The broad theme for the workshop is
”Rethinking the Cultural Turn”, and the aim of the
workshop will be to map the terrain of Cultural Studies as it has developed
through the last couple of decades in both the West and the postcolonial
countries.
• South Asia conference at Berkeley The 19th Annual South Asia Conference at the University of California,
Berkeley, is held Friday-Saturday 13–14 February 2004. Venue: Center
for South Asia Studies, 10 Stephens Hall, Berkeley.
• Conference on ”Breaking Barriers
and Building Bridges” in Seattle The National South Asian Law Student Association (NSALSA)
Conference 2004 at Seattle, Washington State, USA, will be 13–16
February 2004. The theme for the conference is ”Breaking Barriers
and Building Bridges: Human rights and the Law in South Asia”.
Venue: Seattle University School of Law at Sullivan Hall, 900 Broadway.
• Fifth European Social Science History Conference
in Berlin 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.
• BASAS annual conference held at University
of East Anglia The British Association for South Asian Studies, BASAS, arranges
its annual conference 2004 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich,
UK, 5–7 April 2004. The conference theme will be ”Contemporary
Developments in South Asia”. Panels which have already been
suggested and are being considered for the conference include: •
Contemporary Cinema, • Dalit Literatures, • South Asian Political
Economies, and • International Relations: Changing Relationships
between South Asia and the USA. More
information.
• Australian conference on Asian studies
in June The Asian Studies Association of Australia invites participants
to the 15th Biennial Conference in Canberra, 29 June–2 July 2004.
The conference will be held in Canberra's National Convention Centre and
is an opportunity to showcase current work in any aspect of Asian Studies.
The conference therefore will address a wide variety of themes, including
religious change, political authority, migration, terror and violence,
architecture, poverty and wealth creation, gender, bilateral trade agreements
and the state of the profession. Deadline for panels and paper proposals
is 5 March 2004. More
information.
•
South Asia related films at Göteborg Film Festival 2004 Göteborg Film Festival 2004 (23 January–2 February) shows
several South Asian or South Asia related films.
– The German film maker Dagmar Diebels
has produced The Return of the Khan (Der
Khan kehrt züruck), following the Afghani political scientist
Rangin Dadfar Spanta returning to his home
country after 25 years in German exile.
– Travellers and Magicians, a beautiful
film by the Bhutanese director Khyentse Norbu
is also shown (photo from the film shown to the left), as well
as
– A Nation without Women (Matrubhoomi),
a film dealing with the phenomenon of killings of unwanted female children
in Indian villages. The film is made by Manish Jha.
– A French/German/Pakistani co-production called Silent
Waters (Khamosh Pani) is also shown at the festival, an
interesting film by Sabiha Sumar which won
the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival last year.
– Finally two films from Sri Lanka are shown; Mansion
by the Lake, directed by Lester James
Peries; and Shades of Ash (Sudu
Kalu Saha Alu), directed by Sudath Mahaadivulwewa.
The latter film deals with how the 20 years of civil war has affected
the people of the country. More information on
the Göteborg film festival 2004.
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,
Scheelevägen 15 B, S-223 70 Lund, Sweden Visiting address: Ideon Research Park, House Alfa 1 (first
floor, room no. 2042), in the premises of the Centre for East and
South East Asian Studies at Lund University (ACE). Phone: + 46 46 222 73 40 Fax: + 46 46 222 30 41 E-mail:sasnet@sasnet.lu.se Web site:
http://www.sasnet.lu.se Staff:Staffan
Lindberg, director/co-ordinator & Lars
Eklund, webmaster/deputy director
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
2010-02-24
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SASNET contact journey to Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Nordic Centre in India offers accommodation in Delhi. 
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South Asia related films at Göteborg Film Festival 2004