Linnaeus Palme grant for Sweden-Bhutan exchange programme now running
On 22 May 2018, the Swedish Council for Higher Education decided to award SEK 523 000 as a Linnaeus Palme Exchange Programme grant to the Department of Science, Environment and Society (NMS) at the University of Malmö for its new collaboration programme with Samtse College of Education (SCE) at the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) […]
Doctoral dissertation on climate change in Nepal and Maldives
On Friday 24 May 2019, PhD candidate Phu Doma Lama at the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety (LUCRAM), Lund University, will defend her doctoral dissertation entitled ”Climate Change Adaptation among Communities: Comparative Case study of Maldives and Nepal”. Phu has been working at the department since July 2014, and she was originally planning to focus […]
South Asia Magazine again in print 2019
On April, 2, 2019, a release feast was held in Stockholm for the new Sydasien print magazine No. 3 containing both my memorial article on Staffan Lindberg, and also a review of our 2018 India book. Full information on SYDASIEN magazine! http://larseklund.in/sydasiennew.html
Hindi Language Programme in Varanasi during summer 2019
As one of its summer programmes, the Nordic Centre in India university consortium (NCI) organises a Hindi Language Programme in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Indian Languages and Society (INLANSO) in Varanasi, from 30 June to 27 July 2019. This is a four-week-long intensive summer Hindi language course for students at A1, A2 and B1 levels […]
Lund University doctoral thesis on Workplace Heat Stress in Chennai
On 23 February 2018, Karin Lundgren Kowacki at the Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology division within the Department of Design Sciences (IKDC) at Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Lund University, defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ”The Heat is on: Evaluation of Workplace Heat Stress under a Changing Climate”. To a large part the thesis deals with […]
Fruitful NSAN visit to the Samtse College of Education in Bhutan
During the period 5-12 May 2017, the NSAN editor Lars Eklund visited Bhutan on invitation from the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) and more specifically by its College of Education in Samtse (SCE). The planning for the visit originated in Lars meeting Swedish musicologist Johan Westman working at the Lu-Rig Centre for Music Education and […]
1. Kolkata new impressions, weeks 1 & 2
FIRST WEEK Wednesday 12 December 2018 Arrived Kolkata at 16.40 local time by Air India. Spent seven hours waiting at Delhi airport mostly sleeping, fortunately our luggage – four bags weighing 66 kg – came straight through from Copenhagen. Picked up by Bubu’s sister Boni and her husband Rana, and don’t believe we headed for […]
2. Third and fourth week in Kolkata
THIRD WEEK Wednesday 26 December 2018 Time to take farewell of Shantiniketan and return to Kolkata. Mattias and Daniel were lucky to have train tickets and left by a passenger train at 06.29 (Bubu rose up at 04.45 to give them tea, and an e-riksha was ordered for 06.30). The rest of us – Boni […]
3. Kolkata fifth and sixth weeks
FIFTH WEEK Wednesday 9 January 2019 Again visit to Tala Park, because Marie had problems with her computer, Banjul helped her to get it repaired. Lunch at Romu’s place, excellent prepared. Cycle riksha from Tala Park, walking back. Called Mattias Lindberg and could also talk to Karin, giving condolences. Posted a collage with Staffan photos […]
4. Seventh and eight weeks Kolkata
SEVENTH WEEEK Wednesday 24 January 2019 Today it is holiday here in Bengal. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday, the mayor of Calcutta who competed with Gandhi for the leadership of the Congress Party and eventually led the Indian National Army (INA) in the war against the British. He is much more popular in Bengal, with […]