Forum for South Asia Studies at Uppsala University

04/12/2019

Nobelföreläsningar i ekonomi 2019

https://www.kalendarium.uu.se/Evenemang/?eventId=49728&fbclid=IwAR1xi2qqmC1fNDWVCYKMuvdG13vWS5NfyzM06wXZcQnp7P479rsylRBtL7s

22/11/2019

All are welcome! On the 10th of December, 2019
Nobelpris i litteratur- en occidental angelägenhet

29/10/2019

Please find an updated program of our upcoming event.
Register by email: [email protected]

23/10/2019

Register by emailing [email protected]

06/03/2019

Welcome to a lecture by Prof. Ashok Swain this Saturday 9th of March 2019 at 14.30, Gustavianum on 'How food has become an instrument for domination in India'. The lecture will be a part of a day long event on 'Food and Food ways' from 11.00- 16.00. We will also serve delicious chicken biryani at 13.30. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

08/02/2019

Seminar Series on Indology
Institute for Linguisitcs and Philology
Uppsala University

The first seminar in Indology will take place next week 13/2, kl. 14:15-15:45 in EP9-1017.

Ventilering av kandidatupsatsen: Läsning av två noveller av Jay Prakash Kardam och Ajay Navariya (David Dymén)

If you want copies of the texts to be discussed (in Swedish and Hindi) please contact Heinz Werner Wessler at [email protected]

Later meetings of the seminar:

13/3 9-2029 Heinz Werner Wessler (Francois Marie des Tours: Rapport om projektet)

8/5 9-1017 David Dymén (kandidatuppsats, Jay Prakash Kardam och Ajay Navariya, del 2)

15/5 9-1017 Ramu Mudigonda (kandidatuppsats om Archana Painyuli, Highway 49)

22/5 9-1017 Armin Chiocchetti (masteruppsats om Vinod Kumar och Adivasi-Literatur)

29/5 9-2029 Pär Eliasson (ventilering av ett kapitel i forskaravhandling)

04/12/2018

Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, ex- chief election commissioner of India will be in conversation with Dr. Ashok Swain from Uppsala University. We look forward to seeing you there. On the 6th of December, from 1.30-3.00 P.M. at Lecture Hall 2, Gamla Torget 3, Uppsala.

10/10/2018

Välkommen!
Q***r in South Asia and the Diaspora this Friday at Blåsenhus from 09:45 to 17.30.

14/09/2016

Guest lecture with Professor Dr Hari S. Vasudevan on "The Sino-Russian challenge in international relations: Approaches and responses in India"

Date and time: Tuesday, 20 September, 13:00
Location: UCRS Library, Gamla Torget 3
Language: English

Coincidence of interests between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China has been noticeable in regional politics in Asia since the mid 2000s. How far this coincidence provides the basis for a relationship other than the loose engagements marked in the SCO and BRICS has been uncertain. However, prominence given to a range of discourses, concretized into regimes, where China and Russia are not key players, or at best also-rans (ENP, Trans Pacific Economic Cooperation) set the terms for deeper links, with specific points of disagreement with the USA/Europe acting as flashpoints (as in the Ukraine or the South China Sea). Since the imposition of a sanctions regime on Russia, changes in economic relations have been observable and add new dimensions to the Connection.

The presentation examines India's responses as a state that has enjoyed a special relationship with Russia in the past and has had an important but problematic relationship with China.

Dr Hari S. Vasudevan is professor of Modern European and Russian History at the University of Calcutta in India.

This lecture is co-organised by the Hugo Valentin Centre (HVC), the Forum for South Asia Studies, and the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS).

28/06/2016

In his new book "Political Tolerance in the Global South - Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda" Professor Sten Widmalm reflects on the question what makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike?

This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to focus on the global south, offering unique empirical studies of political tolerance in plural societies where poverty is prevalent and democratic institutions can often be fragile. Based on extensive data gathered in India, Pakistan and Uganda, this volume offers an account of the factors that shape the foundations of a society and its capacity to be democratic, but where the need for the protection of human rights is great and where the state is either weak or even constitutes a counter-force against the rights of individuals and groups.

For more about the book see Political Tolerance in the Global South.

https://www.routledge.com/Political-Tolerance-in-the-Global-South-Images-of-India-Pakistan-and/Widmalm/p/book/9781472476470

What makes people agree to the extension of political rights to those they clearly dislike? This book moves beyond the extensive research on this question in western contexts to focus on the global south, offering unique empirical studies of political…