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• SASNET invites to a workshop
on student exchange with South Asia
SASNET holds
a workshop on the "Role of of South Asia in the Internationalisation
of Higher Education in Sweden" in Stockholm 28-29 November 2006.
It is jointly organised by SASNET, Karolinska Institutet Medical University
and the Swedish Institute, and will take place at Karolinska Institutet,
Nobel Forum. The programme will include sessions with experiences from
masters programmes and PhD studies in Sweden and in South Asia. The aim
is to promote increased academic exchange with South Asia. Since South
Asia and especially India is fastly becoming a major academic arena in
the world, the workshop should be of great interest to teachers involved
in international student exchange as well as administrators handling
such exchanges at Swedish universities. There are still some room for
more participants. More
information
• SASNET
lecture about the Bhopal disaster 1984
The physician Ingrid Eckerman
holds a SASNET lecture about the 1984 toxic disaster in Bhopal, in
Lund on Wednesday 15 November, 19.30.
It is titled ”The Bhopal Saga – causes and consequences
of the world’s largest industrial disaster”. The lecture
is organised in collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs
in Lund. In 1994 Dr. Eckerman was a member of the International Medical
Commission on Bhopal, and recently she wrote a book about the disaster
that took place at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in 1984. Venue:
Eden – room 131, Dept. of Polirical Science, Lund University,
Paradisgatan 5. More information.
• SASNET seminar about Warlords and
Taliban in Afghanistan
A seminar titled “Afghanistan:
Warlords, Taliban or who will rule in the future?” will be held
in Lund on
Wednesday 29 November 2006, 19.30. Invited experts will lecture and
initiate a discussion in this event jointly organised by SASNET, the
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), and the Association of Foreign
Affairs in Lund. Venue: Nya Festsalen, Academic Society Building, Sandgatan
2, Lund. More information.
•
Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
On Friday 13 October
the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize
for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Bangladesh’s
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen
Bank, for their efforts to create economic and social
development from below. Lasting peace can not be achieved unless
large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.
Micro-credit is one such means. Development from below also serves
to advance democracy and human rights. Muhammad Yunus, formerly professor
of Economics at Chittagong University, founded the bank in 1976.
It has become a pioneer of micro-credit lending schemes for the poor
in Bangladesh, especially women, so that they can launch their own
businesses. The winners receive a prize of 10m Swedish kronor. More
information.
• Grants
from the Swedish Research Council to South Asia related projects
Two
South Asia related projects were given three-years grants for the period
2007–09
from the Swedish Research Council for research within the fields of
Humanities and Social Sciences 2006.
The decisions were taken on 10 October 2006. Prof. Björn Asheim
(photo to
the left) from the Dept. of Social and
Economic Geography, Lund University gets a major grant for a project
titled ”Emerging Trends in Asia: from cost-based producers
to global suppliers of innovation. Implications for industry growth
in developed and developing countries” that will be carried
out by Lund University’s new Centre of Excellence in innovation
system research, CIRCLE (Centre
for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy); and
Dr. Jürgen Offermanns, Division of Indic
Religions, Department of History and Anthropology of Religion;
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, gets another
major grant for a project titled ”Buddhism
– a Swedish Cultural Heritage”. More
information about the 2006 grants.
• German
award for Marc Katz research through the means of film
The Institute
for Interreligious Studies in Germany has decided to give Dr.
Marc Katz, Dept. of Religious Studies and
Theology, Karlstad University,
the 2006 INTR°A Project Award. The award, 5,000 Euro,
is designed for individuals, groups or institutions that promote
the complementation of the religions in word and deed. Dr. Katz gets
the award for for his research of ways of religious life and his
teaching on interreligious and interconfessional encounter through
the means of film. The motivation says that ”his genuine,
empathetic and instructive procedure is particularly convincing represented
in the films Banaras
Muharram and the Coals of Karbala and Tulsidas
and the Fire of the Veda, developed and produced by Professor
Katz together with Staffan Winbergh”.
The award will be handed over during the coming INTR°A conference,
to be held 17–19 November 2006 in Iserlohn, Germany. More
information about Dr. Katz, his films and research.
• Doctoral dissertation about the Kalasha
language in Pakistan
Jan Heegård
Petersen, Dept.
of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen,
will defend his PhD thesis "Local case-marking
in Kalasha" on Thursday 2 November 2006, 13.00. The research
deals with Kalasha, an Indo-Aryan ("Dardic") language with
about 4,000 speakers in the Hindu Kush mountains in Northwest Pakistan,
and is based on fieldwork in the region. Petersen has previously
published studies of the phonetics and grammar of the language. The
thesis is a study of the case endings and postpositions in Kalasha.
Venue: Room 23.0.50, Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 120, Copenhagen. Read
the full dissertation (as a pdf-file)
•
2006 Right Livelihood
Award to Ruth Manorama
Ruth Manorama is one of the three recipients of the 2006
Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ”alternative Nobel
Price”. They
share the price of SEK 2 million. The other two recipients are Daniel
Ellsberg, USA, and the Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medelin,
Columbia. The award presentation ceremony will be held in the Swedish
Parliament on Friday 8 December 2006. The motivation to give Ms Manorama
the award is her ”commitment over decades to achieve equality
for Dalit women, building effective and committed women's organisations
and working for their rights at national and international levels”.
She is working for the Indian National Alliance of Women (NAWO),
the Indian National Federation of Dalit Women (NFDW), and Women‘s
Voice in Bangalore. More
information.
• Tenure-track positions at American
universities
The Dept. of History at Rice University in Houston, Texas,
USA, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in South Asian
History.
Applicants should have completed their PhD by July 1, 2007.
Georgetown University, Washington
DC, USA, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History,
focused on South Asia and
the Indian Ocean World (including Southeast Asia) since the year 1500.
Application review will begin November 15, 2006; applications will
be accepted until the position is filled.
The University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA, announces a position as Associate Director
for its Program in South Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies. Starting date is as soon as possible after
the search closes. Interested individuals should submit a resume,
short writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Sandra
Bowman. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received
by November 1, 2006.
• The Simon Fraser University
in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, announces a position as Assistant
Professor Tenure-track
in Modern South Asian History. Closing date for receipt of applications
is Friday 5 January 2007.
• Time to apply for Linnaeus Palme exchange programme
grants
Applications
for the Linnaeus Palme programme for the period 1 July 2007 – 30
June 2008 has to be delivered to the International Office or equivalent
authority at the local Swedish university not later than 15 November,
2006. Decisions are taken by the International Programme Office for Education
and Training in the middle of May, 2007. More
information.
Scholarships for studies at Indian universities
are
offered on a reciprocal basis for two Swedish students every year by
the Indian government through the Council
of Cultural Relations in New Delhi. Applications for scholarships
are managed through the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, who pass them
on to the Indian Embassy in Stockholm. Last date for applications for
the year 2007/08: 1 November 2006. More information
on the scholarships, and application forms (only in Swedish).
• South Asia course at Göteborg
University in the Spring 2007
The Centre
for Asian Studies (CEAS) at the School for Global Studies, Göteborg
University, In the Spring 2007 again organises a 10 credits special course
called ”South Asia today”, involving a large number of the
South Asia specialists at Göteborg University, including Björn
Hettne, Camilla Orjuela, Gunilla Blomquist, Bent Jörgensen, Monica
Erwér and Jan Johansson.
CEAS also runs a
programme on basic and intermediate level (1–20
credits and 21–40 credits) in Asian studies every year, courses
that include teaching on South Asia. During the Spring 2007 a B level
20 credits course (fortsättningskurs) will run.
• Time
to apply for the 2007 LUMID programme in Lund
Lund University introduced
a new 120 ECTS (80 Swedish credits) International Masters programme
in applied Development and Management (LUMID) from the Fall semester
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. Deadline for applications for the programme that will
start in the Fall 2007 is already Wednesday 15 November 2006. More
information on LUMID.
• Lots
of panels and other activities at the 35th Madison conference
on South Asia
The Center for South Asia at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison arranges its 35th annual conference on South Asia,
19–22 October 2006.
In recognition of the establishment in 1996, and the tenth anniversary
of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS), the Conference
on South Asia will feature Sri Lanka as its theme for 2006. Various
special events, panels and papers will be featured. The Annual Conference
on South Asia attracts over 500 scholars and other interested parties
annually, who travel from a dozen countries around the world and much
of the United States. The conference features 75 or more academic panels
and roundtables, as well as association meetings and special events
ranging from performances to film screenings. Venue: Madison Concourse
Hotel, 1 West Dayton St., Madison, Wisconsin, USA. More
information.
The
Madison conference also has a rich variety of side programmes,
including public lectures, dance and music performances (including
a concert with the maestro of Karnatic music, B. Balasubrahmaniyan, photo).
Other programmes include a half-day workshop entitled ”Cinema
of Violence”, about the films of Prasanna Vithanage,
and an exhibition called ”The Art of African-Indians:
Patchwork Quilts by the Siddis of Northern Karnataka”,
where Siddi handicrafts and other materials on Siddi history,
culture, and arts will be for sale.
A one-day pre-conference session about ”The ‘Long’ 1950s
in South Asia” is held on Thursday 19 October
2006. It is organized by Itty Abraham, East-West Center, Washington;
Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin, and Willem van
Schendel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The conference
aims at understanding the current transformations
– dismantlings – taking place across South Asia without returning
to the originary moment of post-colonial South Asia – the ‘long’ 1950s.
A Himalayan Policy Research Conference is also held in
Madison as a pre.conference on Thursday 19 October.
It is organised by the Nepal Study Center at University of New
Mexico, as a pre-conference to the University of Wisconsin's 35th
Annual Conference on South Asia (see above). The overall theme
of the conference will be development, democracy and conflict in
Nepal, but cross-country analyses involving more than one country
are also strongly encouraged. Venue: Senate Room A, Concourse Hotel
Info, Madison.
• Copenhagen
conference on potential of fermented foods of South Asia
A one-day seminar
about the potential of fermented foods of South Asia will be held in
Copenhagen on Monday 23 October 2006,
9.00–15.30.
The conference is titled “Fermented foods, health status,
and wellbeing”, and is being jointly organised by SASNET
Fermented Foods – a cluster of food scientists in South Asia
and Scandinavia – and the Øresund Food Network. During
the seminar, scientists from India, coming from prominent institutions
of food and dairy research in the country, will present examples of
modern food research on fermented foods being conducted in India. Special
attention will be paid to health promoting foods. Venue: Øresund
Food Network, Arne jacobsens Alle 15-17, Ørestad, Copenhagen. More
information.
• Oslo conference about Rethinking
Popular Representation
A conference/extended
workshop on ”Rethinking
Popular Representation”
will be held at Randsvangen Hotel in Oslo on 26–27
October 2006. The conference is organised within the auspices of
the Norwegian Network on Contextual Politics in Developing Countries
(CPD). The researchers Neera Chandhoke and John Harriss will participate
in a session titled ”Popular representation between Tradition
and New Politics”; Kristian Stokke and Jayaveda Uyangoda
in a session titled ”People, Citizens, and the Politics of
Representation”; and Neil Webster, Jos Chathukulam and Ansa
Masoed in a session titled ”Local Government and Citizens
versus Governance and Users”. More
information.
• Copenhagen conference on Gender
and Religion in Global Perspectives
An International
Conference on ”Gender
and Religion in Global Perspectives” is held in Copenhagen 26–28
October 2006. The conference discusses whether gender and
ideas about gender roles have been used and misused in religious revivals,
and aims at bridging gender and religious studies and at transforming
scholarship and reflection in both current and historical perspectives.
More than 50 research papers, some with South Asia focus, will be presented.
It is organised by the Research Priority Area: Religion in the 21st
Century, and the Co-ordination for Gender Studies in Denmark. Venue:
University of Copenhagen, Ø. Farimagsgade 5 A. More
information.
• Geneva Workshop of Young Scholars
from the Global South
The Second Workshop of Young
Scholars from the Global South (WYSGS-2) is held in Geneva, Switzerland,
30 October – 3
November 2006. The workshop is organised by the Graduate Institute
of International Studies, and iis aim is to promote outstanding young
scholars from the Global South specializing in the study of international
relations, broadly defined, mainly from the perspectives of history,
political science, law, and economics. Candidates will typically be
nearing completion of their Ph.ds at a southern university. Exceptionally,
fresh Ph.ds from southern universities working within the region, and
students from the south nearing completion of their Phds on south-related
topics at northern universities may be considered. Selection will be
based on the quality of research. More
information.
• Nordic conference about Asian Studies
at a Turning Point in Turku
A conference
titled ”Asian
Studies at a Turning Point: Tandem walk or boxing match between social
sciences and humanities?” is
held at the University of Turku, Finland, 6–7 November
2006. It runs parallell with an Intensive PhD Course for Nordic PhD
students in Asian studies, to be held from 5 to 9 November in Turku.
The conference sets out to offer a platform for academic dialogue on
a wide range of methodological and paradigamatic topics across disciplinary
and regional boundaries in Asian studies (including South Asian studies).
Scholars from the Nordic countries and beyond are warmly welcomed to
join us to make the conference an occasion of cutting-edge scholarly
exchange. The conference is organized jointly by the Graduate School
of Contemporary Asian Studies and the Centre for East Asian Studies,
University of Turku; Nordic NIAS Council; and the Nordic Institute
of Asian Studies, NIAS. SASNET’s Director, Prof. Staffan Lindberg,
will participate in the conference on its second day, in a roundtable
discussion about ”Asian Studies in the Nordic Countrie”. More
information.
• Swedish peace, conflict and development
researchers meet in Uppsala
The Swedish
Network of Peace, Conflict and Development Research arranges
its second annual International conference in Uppsala 6–8 November
2006.
The conference theme is
”Globalization and Peace-Building”. The Network will have
some funds at its disposal to support paper presenters living in the
developing world with their travel expenses to and from the conference.
An edited volume of selected papers from the Conference will most probably
be published by an international commercial publishing house afterwards.
• Berkeley
conference on Sikh and Punjabi culture
An International Conference called ”Translating
Culture. Sikh and Punjab Studies in Global Perspective” is
held at the University of California at Berkeley, 11–12
November 2006. Panels and papers will focus on issues like ”Challenges
of Translation ”, ”Translatability
and Religious Criticism”, ”Translating Text and
Practice”, and ”Translation in Transnational Perspective”.
The conference is jointly organised by the Dept. of South and Southeast
Asian Studies, and the Center for South Asian Studies, and is sponsored
by the Sikh Foundation. It coincides with the 3rd
Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival (SFISAFF),
this year presenting three films exploring Sikh identity. Venue: UC
Berkeley, Lipman Room, Barrows Hall.
• Other conferences connected to South Asian
studies arranged all over the World
See SASNETs page, http://www.sasnet.lu.se/conferences.html#conf
Important lectures and workshops
• Stockholm
seminar focused on new books in Swedish
A seminar about India is organised
by Amnesty International Sweden in Stockholm on Tuesday 17 October
2006, 18.00–20.00.
The basis for the seminar is the recent publication of new books on
India in Swedish language. One of them is ”Moderna Indien” by
the journalist Per J Andersson, and he will present the book during
the seminar. The other books are two edited volumes about Dalit culture
published by Indienbiblioteket. Hans
Magnusson, Amnesty International and Dalit Solidarity Network Sweden,
will open the discussion dealing with the divergent images of today’s
India. Parul Sharma (photo to the right) from National Law
School of India University in Bangalore (also guest lecturer at the Dept.
of Law, Stockholm University) will talk about the human rights
situation in India. Other participants are Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Dept.
of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, and the writer Tomas
Löfström. Venue: ABF, Sveavägen
41, Stockholm. More
information.
• Stockholm seminar on young people
and the fight against poverty
A seminar titled ”Young
people – an
essential resource to combat poverty” is held in Stockholm on
Wednesday 18 October 2006, 18–20. It is arranged by
the Swedish
Development Forum (FUF), and Landsrådet för Sveriges
Ungdomsorganisationer (LSU). It focuses on how young people should
be involved in the work to achieve the Millennium Goals, and contribute
to the creation of a just and sustainable global development. Prabodhini
Munasinghe, project leader for the Sida funded Democratic
Youth Leadership Programme in Sri Lanka, is one of the participants.
Venue: Immanuelskyrkan, Tulesalen, Kungstensgatan 17, Stockholm.
• CPAS lecture by Kathak Malla on the
peace negotiations in Nepal
Dr. Katak Malla, Dept.
of Law,
Stockholm University, holds a CPAS lecture about ”The Agenda
for Peace Negotiations in Nepal" in Stockholm on
Wednesday 18 October 2006, 15–17. Following well-reported mass
demonstrations in April, the authoritarian King Gyanendra's power was
reduced. The Royal Army and the Maoists have concluded ceasefire and
have held talks on how to rule Nepal. What are the major issues in
the talks? How will Nepalese politics develop? It is part of a lecture
series that the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS) organises every
week. Venue: Hall B, Dept. of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University,
Kräftriket 4.
• Lund seminar about Depletion of Oceanic
Fish Stocks
A whole day seminar about ”Depletion of Oceanic Fish Stocks” will
be held at Lund University Thursday 19 October 2006, 10.00–17.00.
It is the last one in a series of seminars titled ”Seven Challenges
for Sustainability” being arranged during the past year. The
seminar deals with marine fishing and sustainability issues, and a panel
of researchers and stake holders are invited to give lectures and to debate
on this important topic for a global sustainable development. Among the
invited guests are Olof Lindén, Professor in Marine Environmental
Management at the World Maritime University in Malmö. The seminar
is organised by Lund University Centre for Sustainability
Studies (LUCSUS) and AGESI – Arena for Global Equity and Sustainable
Issues. Venue: Lecture Hall Världen, Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan
10, 1st floor, Lund. More
information.
• Copenhagen lecture about Nuristani
music
Christer Irgens-Møller lectures about ”Musik fra
Nuristan: Unikke materialer indsamlet på danske ekspeditioner till
Afghanistan” in Copenhagen on Thursday 26 October 2006, 17–19.
The lecture is organised by the Danish Society for Central Asia, and is
part of a series of lectures carried out during 2006. Venue: Auditorium
U3, Carsten Niebuhr Division, University of Copenhagen, Snorres gade 17–19,
Copenhagen. More
information.
•
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw lectures at Karolinska Institutet
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar
Shaw, CEO of Biocon India, will hold a guest lecture at Karolinska
Institutet (KI) in Stockholm on
Friday 27 October 2006, 11.00–12.00. She will lecture about
”Leveraging cross border capabilities for affordable drug development”.
The seminar is organised by Dr. C.B. Sanjeevi from the Molecular
Immunogenetics Unit (being the coordinator for the Linnaeus-Palme
Programme in Medicine for India at KI), and be chaired by KI’s
President, Prof. Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson. Venue: Rockefeller salen,
Nobels väg 11, KI Campus Solna.
• Roskilde seminar about formation of
identities in the South
A Seminar titled ”A
place of one’s own: schooling
and the formation of identities in the South” is held at Roskilde
University (RUC) on Tuesday 31 October 2006, 9.30
– 12.30. It is organised by the Dept.
of Psychology and Educational Research at RUC. The researchers Ulla
Ambrosius Madsen and Stephen Carney will discuss schooling across the
World, based on their findings from various developing country contexts
(Eritrea, Nepal, Zambia & Western China). Ulla Ambrosius Madsen has
recently published a book on Nepal, titled
”A
Place on one's own: Schooling and the Formation of Identities in modern
Nepal: Nation Building, Identity and citizenship education: Cross cultural
perspectives”. Venue: P.10, Roskilde University, Denmark.
• Copenhagen seminar about Forests,
Conservation and Poverty Alleviation
A seminar
on ”Forests,
Conservation and Poverty Alleviation – Participatory Forest Management
and the Role of the Poor” is held in Copenhagen on Tuesday
31 October 2006, 9.15–15.00. It is organised by the Danish Institute
for International Studies (DIIS) in collaboration with Danida and the
Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Registration is required
by e-mail including name, title and organisation to event@diis.dk no
later than Thursday 26 October . Venue: DIIS, Main Auditorium, Strandgade
71, ground floor, Copenhagen.
• Bidyut Mohanty lectures at Lund University
Dr.
Bidyut Mohanty from the University of Delhi, India, lectures at Lund
University on Wednesday 1 November 2006,
13.15–15.00. She will talk about ”One million women
grasstroots (village council) leaders: How do they govern the communities?".
Dr. Mohanty has been invited to Sweden by Dr Sidsel Hansson at ACE,
through a SASNET grant to provide for a South Asian researcher to lecture
at more than one university (more information).
Venue: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies (ACE), Scheelevägen
15 B, Lund.
• Lund University lecture about NGOs
as agents of change in rural Bangladesh
Malin Arvidson, Dept. of Sociology,
Lund University, lectures on ”Unlike the state: NGOs as agents of
change in rural Bangladesh”
in Lund on Thursday 9 November 2006, 13.15–15.00. She will discuss
the NGO sector in Bangladesh, renowned for its size and groundbreaking
actions such as empowerment of women through micro-credits, and how the
sector has contributed to a generally strengthened civil society. The
seminar is organised by the Lund University Centre for Sustainability
Studies (LUCSUS). Venue: Lecture Hall Världen, Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan
10, 1st floor, Lund.
• Copenhagen lecture about the Kalasha
people in Pakistan
Jan Heegård and Jørgen Rischel lecture about ”Kalasha-folket
og danskerne” in Copenhagen on Thursday 9 November 2006, 17–19.
The lecture is organised by the Danish Society for Central Asia, and
is part of a series of lectures carried out during 2006. Venue: Auditorium
U3, Carsten Niebuhr Division, University of Copenhagen, Snorres gade
17–19, Copenhagen. More
information.
• Copenhagen lecture about Religion,
Politics and Holy Shrines in Pakistan
Uzma Rehman
will lecture about ”Religion,
Politics and Holy Shrines in Pakistan”
in Copenhagen on Tuesday 14 November 2006, 15.15. The seminar
is organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University
of Copenhagen. Venue: Snorres gade 17-19, first floor, hall U8, Copenhagen.
South Asia related culture in Scandinavia
• Bangladeshi Cultural Evening in Göteborg
Bangladesh
Föreningen
i Göteborg
arranges a cultural evening programme on Wednesday 18 October 2006,
18.30. The programme includes Bengali music and dance, singing of Tagore
songs, and a lecture about the history of Bangladesh. Venue: The Museum
of World Cultures, Södra Vägen, Göteborg. See
the full programme (as a pdf-file).
• Stockholm
concert with Suranjana
Ghosh and Sahana Bannerjee
Two female Indian
classical musicians give a concert in Stockholm on Saturday 21 October
2006, 15.00. The graded tabla
maestro Suranjana Ghosh and the promising sitar player Sahana Bannerjee
(photo
to the right), both from Kolkata, perform at Musikmuseet, Sibyllegatan
2, Stockholm. The programme is called ”Indisk Raga. Exklusiv
konsert med kvinnliga mästarmusiker”. More
information.
• India
literature presented at Göteborg Book
Fair
A
new culmination of the activities of the Indian
Library (Indienbiblioteket) comes during the Fall 2006.
Three new books, part of the project, were launched during the Book-
and Library Fair in Göteborg (Bok- och Biblioteksmässan),
held 21–24
September 2006. One of them was the anthology
”Berättelsen
på min rygg – Daliterna i uppror mot kastsystemet – Noveller,
essäer, dokument”, edited by Dr. Eva-Maria
Hardtmann, Dept. of Social Anthropology,
Stockholm University, and Dr. Vimal Thorat, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India. More
information (in
Swedish only).
New and updated items on SASNET web site
More Swedish departments where research
on South Asia is going on:
Constantly added to the list of research environments at Swedish
universities, presented by SASNET. The full list now includes 190 departments! Go
to the presentation page.
ƒ Literature, Culture and Digital Media, School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona
ƒ Center for Gender Studies (CFG), Faculty of Arts and Education, Karlstad University
ƒ Division of Social Anthropology, Dept. of Religion and Culture (IRK), Linköping University
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. Now included the 13 October 2006 article on ”Salman
Rushdie: His life, his work and his religion” (by Johann
Hari, Independent
News and Media).
• New books recommended
for reading
Look at http://www.sasnet.lu.se/newbooks.html.
Includes new books by Dr. Anju Saxena, Dept.
of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala
University; Dr. Adam Pain, Dept. of Urban and
Rural Development; Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala; Sharul Parma, National
Law School of India University (NLS) in Bangalore (and Dept.
of Law, Stockholm University); and
Dr. Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, connected
to Ethnic
Studies, Department of Social and Welfare Studies; Linköping
University, Campus Norrköping.
Best regards,
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,
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Visiting address: Ideon Research Park, House Alfa 1 (first floor,
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Asian Studies at Lund University (ACE).
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