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Lars Eklund
Lars Eklund (born 24 March 1953) is a Swedish journalist specialized in Ethnology, Social anthropology and Arabic language with a central interest in South Asian studies. He served as the deputy director of ''Swedish South Asian Studies Network'' (SASNET) affiliated to Lund University. He played the instrumental role to construct the gateway of SASNET through which the expansion of studies on South Asia in Sweden along with other Scandinavian countries have attained a special interest. He was also the editor-in-chief of the political and cultural magazine focused on South Asia named ''Sydasien'' from 1982 to 2007. He also served as the sub-editor and night editor of the daily Swedish newspaper ''Arbetet'' from 1984 to 2000. Eklund was one of the board members for the ''European Conferences for South Asian Studies'' for which he also held the position of treasurer. To his credit, he conducted the 18th conference of the ''European Conferences for South Asian Studies'' in 2004, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lund University
Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old ''studium generale'' next to Lund Cathedral. Lund University has nine Faculty (division), faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 47,000 students in 241 different programmes and 1,450 freestanding courses. The university has 560 partner universities in approximately 70 countries. It belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network. Among those associated with the university are five Nobel Prize winners, a Fields Medal winner, prime ministers and business leaders. Two major facilities for materials research have been recent strategic priorities in Lund: MAX IV, a synchrotron radiation laboratory – in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
