Published 10 January 2024 Macario Lacbawan and Youngeun Koo The Centre is welcoming two new staff in 2024. Dr Macario Lacbawan who got his PhD in anthropology at Uppsala University will start a three-year postdoctoral position funded by the Swedish Research Council on 1 February. His research project addresses how the development of smart cities impacts the Aeta indigenous community in the Philipp

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/welcoming-new-staff-centre - 2025-04-23

Published 15 January 2024 The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-04-23

Published 26 January 2024 Aerial view of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.* Paul O'Shea has written a policy brief on the deterrent role of US military bases in Japan The US-Japan alliance established over seventy years ago is typically described by leaders on both sides as the ‘cornerstone of peace and security in East Asia.’ While China and North Korea may not share this positive view of the imp

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/policy-brief-european-union-institute-paul-oshea - 2025-04-23

Published 6 February 2024 Photo by Astrid Norén-Nilsson Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political trends of the past year for East Asia Forum. The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect.The full article is available on the East Asia Forum website 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2023 - 2025-04-23

Published 8 February 2024 Shitou (far left) and Mingming (far right) on a screening tour in Nanning, Guangxi Province, December 13, 2008. ‘We Want to Watch Queer Film’ is printed on their black T-shirts. Photo courtesy of the artists. Jinyan Zeng’ research article 'Queering community: The affect of visuality in the Sinosphere' is released in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, on 6 Feb 2024. How do Chines

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/queering-community-affect-visuality-sinosphere - 2025-04-23

Published 9 February 2024 Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow have published a new peer-reviewed article in Policy Studies, analysing Japan's dramatic policy shifts in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as “incremental”. However, Japan’s response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to recon

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-russias-invasion-ukraine-has-changed-japans-security-policy - 2025-04-23

Published 22 February 2024 Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash.com Want to stay up-to-date on Asian affairs and research in the Nordics and beyond? Tune in to the Nordic Asia Podcast! The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration between the following academic partners: Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia), Asian Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland), Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus U

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-and-graduate-school-asian-studies-joins-nordic-asia-podcast - 2025-04-23

Published 7 March 2024 AI generated image by Adobe Firefly Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on the importance of open access book publishing titled ‘Against Book Enclosures: Moving Towards more Diverse, Humane and Accessible Book Publishing’ Matthew Gandy's Commentary in Area (2023) criticised the decision of the national funder UKRI to mandate that all books resulting from the research

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-open-access-book-publishing-co-authored-nicholas-loubere - 2025-04-23

Published 21 March 2024 Screenshot from the Conversation website. Old friends, new allies: Japan aims to shore up its security in Asia through its own military and a series of regional alliances. Gints Ivuskans/Alamy Stock Photo Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow (University of Tokyo) have published an article in the Conversation on the end of Japanese pacifism. The article examines Japan's new role

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/end-japanese-pacifism-article-conversation-co-authored-paul-oshea - 2025-04-23

Published 10 April 2024 The Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies conducts research and teaching on Asia, and is looking for an intern. The successful candidate will contribute to both research and administration at the Centre and for the in-house journal, Asia in Focus. As part of their internship, the candidate will write an article, with feedback from researchers at the Centre, for submis

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-open-applications-1 - 2025-04-23

Published 15 April 2024 Ai Xiaoming at the Office for Gender Education and Research at Sun Yat-sen University. Credit: Zeng Jinyan, 31 May 2013. Jinyan Zeng and Xibai Xu has co-authored a book chapter in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. How do Chinese activists and intellectuals continue to make a social impact under heightened repression? In particular, how do female activists an

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-womens-space-gendering-public-sphere-ai-xiaomings-practice-everyday-life-and - 2025-04-23

Published 17 April 2024 We are thrilled to share the exciting news of Gina's submission to the 2023-24 International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) Research Article Competition being awarded the winner of the Social Sciences category. The article titled “Going weigen: Animals, climate, and the new vegan movement in Taiwan” will be published in the IJTS after appropriate revision. You can read mo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-our-phd-candidate-gina-song-lopez - 2025-04-23

Published 22 April 2024 Photo by Martin Lavička Earlier this year, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region passed a revised version of the Xinjiang Regulations on Religious Affairs. The new rules emphasize the Sinicization of religion, ensuring that sites of religious worship, like mosques, reflect “Chinese characteristics and style.” Moreover, they are calling for the cultivation of

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/viewpoint-new-round-restrictions-further-constrains-religious-practice-xinjiang - 2025-04-23

Published 12 June 2024 Posters of Kangdrun’s three short films Red Bucket and Key, Sophia and Chödrön’s TV Show, and Short Summer in Lhasa. Courtesy of the filmmaker. New research article by Jinyan Zeng. This study investigates the first films made by a female director, Kangdrun (T: Gangs sgron, གངས་སྒྲོན་, Gangzhen, 岗珍, b. 1995) belonging to the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class (ITC) generation. Fol

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualising-post-2000s-inland-tibet-class-generation-female-authorship-and-renegotiation-ethnicity - 2025-04-23

Published 25 June 2024 Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Photo by Sonata from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Paul O’Shea has published a peer-reviewed article in Social Science Japan Journal, analysing the role of US bases in Japan. Do they contribute to deterrence? The relocation of the controversial Marine base at Futenma on Okinawa to

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/do-us-bases-japan-deter-its-neighbours-role-us-marines-okinawa-extended-deterrence - 2025-04-23

Published 28 June 2024 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-edited a Palgrave Handbook on contemporary political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia. This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate in, set agendas for, make decisions in, a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/palgrave-handbook-political-norms-southeast-asia - 2025-04-23

Published 27 August 2024 Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of this new anthology. As a member of the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of the series as well as a contributor.The 15-chapter collection serves as a reflective, retrospective, and celebratory collaboration among teachers, former student

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-reimagining-species-relations-decade-studying-and-teaching-critical-animal-studies - 2025-04-23

Published 28 August 2024 Aerial view over Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com Launch of new European seminar series This new seminar series is a collaboration between the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Paris; Sciences Po, Paris; and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund. It is co-coordinated by Senior Lecturer Astrid Norén-Nilsso

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/current-dynamics-southeast-asia-new-perspectives-political-economy-and-comparative-politics - 2025-04-23

Published 4 September 2024 New research on Burma and India by Elizabeth Rhoads co-authored with Ritanjan Das at Leiden University, takes a comparative historical approach, tracing citizenship policies in both countries since Burma’s partition from British India in 1937. The article argues that the specter of “potential foreigners” continues to play a role in how both countries determine citizenshi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-specter-potential-foreigners-revisiting-postcolonial-citizenship-regimes-myanmar-and - 2025-04-23

Published 8 October 2024 Paul O’Shea was interviewed by NBR Asia on the state of Japan’s foreign and security policy since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed Japan to implement new defense and national security policies. This includes increasing defense spending to 2% of the nation’s GDP by 2027—a historic 60% increase that will result in Japan havi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/qa-interview-national-bureau-asian-research-nbr-asia-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-04-23