SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK
Swedish Institutions and Departments engaged in research related to South Asia Swedish Institutions, Departments, Seminars, and Folk high schools engaged in courses and other educational/seminar activities related to South Asia Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, ACSIS. National centre for transnational cultural studies established in 2002 as an independent unit within Linköping University (administratively connected to the Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, ISAK). National resource for exchange between disciplines, universities, countries and intellectual currents, striving to develop diversified networking between Swedish cultural research and the transnational field of cultural studies. Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm International Foundation for Science, Stockholm Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Scientific, technical and awareness-building organization that contributes to international efforts to combat the escalating global water crisis, Stockholm Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies (SSAAPS), Stockholm Uppsala Center for Sustainable Development (UCHU), consisting of three units: • The Baltic University Programme (BUP), • The Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) and • Collegium for Development Studies (Collegium), organised under the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University as a joint centre for Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Scxiences (SLU) in Uppsala. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala Links to all Swedish universities (INETMEDIA.nu) Links to all Swedish university colleges (INETMEDIA.nu)
Nordic Association
for South Asian Studies, NASA American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), consortium of twenty-five American institutions of higher education involved in research on Pakistan. Based at the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Asian Borderlands Research Network, hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the Netherlands Asian Studies Association of Australia, ASAA Asia-Pacific Mountain Network, (APMN). Regional network of the International Mountain Forum, besides being a part of the knowledge network of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal. Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS). Started in 1964 with a conference in the University of Leeds. Organizes seminars and workshops in the field of Commonwealth Literature through its several regional charters.
Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Secretariat in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1941, this is the largest society of its kind, with approximately 7,000 members worldwide, a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia.
Central & Eastern European Network of Indian Studies (CEENIS),
Institute of Oriental Studies,
University of Warsaw Danish Society for Central Asia, non-profit, non-governmental organization formed in 2005 aimed at promoting the interest in, research on, and knowledge of Central Asia in its broadest sense. The area covered by the Society includes Afghanistan and the northern provinces of Pakistan. Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA), German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan
European Association for Central Asian Studies, EACAS. Secretariat at the Dept. of Oriental Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. EACAS defines the geographic domain of Central Asia to include the northern parts of Afghanistan. 
European Association for South Asian Studies, EASAS, Edinburgh, UK Föreningen för Orientaliska studier, Stockholm University, Sweden Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG), set up in 2002 by Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, and University of Western Australia in Perth. Organises conferences and coordinates scholarly research, with due emphasis on its policy relevance, which may assist in realizing peace, cooperation and ecologically sustainable development in the Indian Ocean region. International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian
Medicine (IASTAM), Brighton, UK International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS)
Institute for Interreligious Studies (Interreligiöse Arbeitsstelle INTR°A), Nachrodt, Germany. Association of European educationalists, theologians, teachers, economists and other interested people who want to promote interfaith dialogue through encounters and publications. JP-SAS, Japanese Network for South Asian Studies, Gifu Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan Nordic Centre in India, run by a Consortium consisting of a large number of institutions of learning and research in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, offering accommodation in New Delhi. Religion in South Asia Section (RISA) of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Society for South Asian Studies, UK South Asian Studies Association of Australia, Armidale. Publishes since 1971 the magazine ”South Asia. Journal of South Asian Studies”. South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion (SSEASR), New Delhi, India Sällskapet för Asienstudier, Uppsala University, Sweden (non-active academic association)
Aalborg University
Aarhus University
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen Foreningen af Udviklingsforskere i Danmark (FAU), Copenhagen
University of Bergen
Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen University of Oslo
Oslo University College
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo Tromsø University Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
University of Helsinki
World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University, (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki Department of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi, Åbo/Turku
Asíuver Íslands, ASÍS (The Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies), University of Akureyri
Scottish Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of Aberdeen Brittish Association for Pakistan Studies, Bath College of Higher Education University of Bath
University of Bradford
University of Sussex, Brighton
Centre for Buddhist Studies, Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol University of Cambridge
Centre for South Asian Studies, Coventry Business School, Coventry University South Asian Studies at Duke University, Durham Centre for South Asian
Studies, School of Social & Political Studies,
University of Edinburgh Afghanistan Music Unit (AMU), Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London. From its London campus, AKU-ISMC offers a two-year, full-time Master’s degree in Muslim Cultures. More information (as a pdf-file) Department of Asia, British Museum, London Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. The Centre has been a hub of activity for the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian
Medicine (IASTAM), but closes down on 31 May 2010. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Founded by His Highness the Aga Khan to promote scholarship and learning on Islam, with an emphasis on Shi‘ism in general and its Ismaili tariqah in particular. International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), London Asia Research Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House, London Overseas Development Institute, London. Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Society for South Asian Studies (SAS), founded and grant-aided by the British Academy, London Area Panel for South Asia, British Academy, London India Media Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design (MAD), University of Westminster, London Centre for Applied South Asian Studies (CASAS), Manchester University of Manchester
Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Asia-Pacific Population Research in Ageing (APPRA), Oxford Institute of Ageing Institute of Jainology, Perivale, Greenford, Middlesex Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Department (AERDD), University of Reading Centre for Nepal Studies UK (CNSUK), Southampton
College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences/Study of Religions, University College of Cork (UCC)
Asian Studies in Amsterdam (ASiA), founded in 2001 Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, Amsterdam
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam SEPHIS, South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development, Amsterdam Transnational Institute, Amsterdam International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede Institute of Indian Studies, Groningen Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Clingendael Asia Studies (CAS), Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague Leiden University
International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden. Established in 1998 by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Utrecht University, and the Radboud University Nijmegen Centre for International Development Issues; Radboud University, Nijmegen (till September 2004 called Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Research school CERES, Utrecht. Unites development related research in six Dutch academic institutions – Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Agricultural University of Wageningen, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Free University (Amsterdam), and the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague.
United Nations University; Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges European Institute for Asian Studies, Brussels Ghent University
Société d’Activité et de Recherche sur les mondes Indiens (SARI), University of Cergy-Pontoise UFR Langues et Cultures Antiques, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille d.u. de langue initiation sanskrit et civilisation indienne, Université de Lyon Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Paris École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris Sciences Po – Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New Delhi, India French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP),
India. Research center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
carries out research expertise and training missions in South and
South-East Asia in the fields of Indology, Social Sciences and
Ecology. Milieux, Societes et Cultures en Himalaya (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/CNRS Himalaya Research Group), Villejuif Cedex
Arbeitskreis Asiatische Religionsgeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionsgeschichte, AKAR, Universität Bayreuth Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Freie Universität, Berlin
Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin Ruhr-Universität Bochum
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität) Asienhaus Essen – Zentrum für Information und Begegnung, Essen Orientalisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
GIGA Institute for Asian Studies (IAS), German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg (includes research on Afghanistan and Pakistan) Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets, Universität Hamburg
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
Seminar für Orientalistik, Abt. Indologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik, Universität zu Köln Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig Institut für Indologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz Department of Indology and Tibetology, Philipps-Universität Marburg Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie, Department für Asienstudien, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Institut für Indologie, Universität Münster Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
KNOTEN WEIMAR (International Transfer Centre Environmental Technology), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Afghanistan Institut, Bubendorf Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies, Geneva. Created in 2008 by the merger of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Europe's oldest institute of international studies (founded in 1927), and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, one of Europe's first institutes devoted to the study of development (founded in 1961). International Environmental Law Research Centre, Geneva. Independent, non-profit research organisation that also has an office in New Delhi, India United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Université de Lausanne Universität Zürich
University of Vienna
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientali, Università degli studi di Bologna Indological section, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, University of Milan Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome Il Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome Cesmeo Istituto Internazionale di Studi Asiatici Avanzati, Università degli Studi di Torino TOAsia, School of Political Science, University of Torino. Unit with a function to help coordinate the School’s institutional and academic activities focussing on contemporary China, India, and Middle East. Società Indologica ”Luigi Pio Tessitori”, Udine University
Centro de Estudios de Asia, Universidad de Valladolid
Department of Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (IUL), Lisbon.
Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development (ELINEPA), Athens
Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Univerzita Karlova, Prague
Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Alexander Csoma de Körös Centre for Oriental Studies, Sapientia, Hungarian University of Transylvania, Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda)
Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Department of South Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Department of South Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University Department of Ethnology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University
Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS)
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University Oriental and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University
Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies,
Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb University
Department of African and Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana
Indology Department, Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski
Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa Institute of Asian & African Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Nepal Study Center, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Asian Studies Program at Emory College, Atlanta, Georgia University of Texas, Austin
University of California, Berkeley Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University, New York State India Studies Program, at Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Asian Studies Program, University of Buffalo, New York State Asian Studies Program, University of Vermont, Burlington Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT India Technology Education Programme, Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
University of Chicago, Illinois
Asian Studies, Department of History,
Loyola University, Chicago India Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, State University of Cleveland, Ohio Asian Studies Program, Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas South Asia Research and Information Institute (SARII), Dallas South and Southeast Asia Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program (AMES), Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Global Studies Program,
Oakton Community College,
Des Plaines, Illinois. Oakton received the prestigious and highly competitive Title 6A: Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (UISFL) Grant from the U.S. Department of Education for two years beginning August 2009. The grant will bring over $125,000 to the College to develop curriculum, along with student and faculty international opportunities related to South Asia. Oakton also develops courses for Hindi and Urdu languages.
Asian/Pacific Studies, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina Muktabodha Indological Research Institute, Emeryville, California Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), University of Florida, Gainesville Asian Studies program, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey Asian Studies Department, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina Sikh Studies Program, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York State Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Chao
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for
Asian
Studies,
Rice
University, Houston Department of Asian and Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, Iowa City Center for Asian Studies, University of California, Irvin Academy of Bangla Arts & Culture, Irving, Texas South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Project South Asia, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Center for Religion & Spirituality, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Memphis, Tennessee Florida International University, Miami
South Asian Studies, Middlebury College, Vermont Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis South Asian Studies Council, MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies at Yale, Yale University, New Haven, CT Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies/Indic Studies Program, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia Afghanistan Reconstruction Project, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
India China Institute, The New School University, New York Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Institute for Afghan Studies, Phoenix, Arizona Asian Studies Center (ASC), Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), Portland University, Oregon Asian Studies Program, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York State Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara American Institute of Vedic Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico University of Washington, Seattle Asian Studies Program, Sewanee University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri Center for India Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY Syracuse University South Asia Center, Syracuse, New York Asian Studies Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University in Tempe Critical Languages Center, Modern Languages & Classics Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), Washington, DC
Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C South Asia Research Network (SARN), Washington D.C. Network created by the South Asia program of the American Social Science Research Council (SSRC) George Washington University, Washington D.C.
South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C. Bipartisan, nonprofit organization conducting research and analysis and developing policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C. Includes an Afghanistan Working Group, chaired by Dr. Barnett R. Rubin United States Educational Foundation in India, USEFI (The Fulbright Commission). Established under a bilateral agreement on educational exchange signed between India and the U.S. in 1950, with offices in Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. Asian Studies Major, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey Asian Studies Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Department of Asian Studies, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, Alberta McGill University, Montreal
Concordia University, Montreal
Canadian Centre for South Asian Studies (CCSAS), Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa Religious Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR), University of British Columbia, Vancouver Asian Studies Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Centro de Estudios de Asia y África (CEAA), Colegio de México, Pedregal de Santa Teresa
University of New England Asia Centre (UNEAC), Armidale, New South Wales ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Asian Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria National Centre for South Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies, Sydney University India Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney. Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN), University of Technology (UTS), Sydney Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, New South Wales
New Zealand South Asia Centre (NZSAC) at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. Launched on 18 March 2009
Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Established in 1959, promotes technological change and sustainable development in the Asian-Pacific region through higher education, research and outreach. India Studies Centre, Thammasat University, Bangkok Sanskrit Studies Centre, Dept. of Oriental Languages, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Inaugurated on 11 August 2009.
Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS),
Gifu Women's University, Gifu-Shi
Department of Indological Studies, Kyoto University Department of Indology and History of Indian Buddhism, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Sendai Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University
Centre For Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
China-India Project, Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
SASNET - Swedish South Asian Studies Network/Lund
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