SASNET Brown Bag Seminars

Interdisciplinary South Asia Seminars at Lund University, introduced by SASNET in January 2011.
From 2012 organised in collaboration with Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (ABF) Lund, and Lunds konsthall.

The aim is to present and disseminate eminent South Asia related research carried out 
in so many departments at Lund University.

Seminars held on Thursdays 12.30 – 13.30

at Konsthallen, Mårtenstorget 3, Lund

All are invited!

The programme for the Fall semester 2012 will soon be presented 

Spring semester 2012:

• 16 February 2012: Professor Emeritus Neelambar Hatti from the Department of Economic History spoke on "Where have all the girls gone?" – a lecture on the gendercide in India. Full information about the seminar.

• 15 March 2012: Assistant Professor Kristina Myrvold from the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies presented her research holding a lecture with the title "I'm a Punjabi-speaking Swedish Sikh": Identity Constructions among Young Sikhs in Sweden. More information.

• 19 April 2012: Professor Magnus Larson from the Department of Water Resources Engineering spoke on ”Sri Lanka's vanishing beaches”. Prof. Larson presented the different projects that his department does that focus on various problems in the coastal region of Sri Lanka. More information. 

• 9 May 2012: Associate Professor Alia Ahmad from the Department of Economics presented her research holding a lecture with the title ”Community Management of Inland Fisheries in Bangladesh and India”. More information.  

Programme for the spring 2012 (as a pdf-file).

Previous Brown Bag seminars:

18 January 2011: Associate Professor Catarina Kinnwall, Department of Political Science
on ”Religion, Nationalism and Discourses on Terror in South Asia”

19 May 2011: Professor Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Department of Biotechnology
on ”Biotechnology and sustainable development”. Read more about her lecture.

15 September 2011: Dr. Malin Gregersen, Department of History on ”Fostering Obligations: Swedish Medical Missionary Narratives from South India”. Read more about her lecture.

13 October 2011: Associate Professor Åsa Ljungh, Section of Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine on ”Lactic acid bacteria – from stone age man to functional food”. Read more about her lecture.

10 November 2011: Dr. Olle Frödin, Department of Sociology on ”Modernization, Neoliberal Globalization or Variegated Development: the Indian Food System Transformation in Comparative Perspective”. Read more about his lecture.