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Who have both received RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) Sabbatical grants. Astrid has received funding for the project Cambodia's turn to hegemonic authoritarianismPaul has received funding for the project An Unlikely Friendship: The Strategic and Normative Foundations of the US-Japan Alliance
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-astrid-and-paul - 2025-12-23
A Korean translation of the book Global China as Method (co-authored by Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini) has been published. Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assu
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/korean-translation-global-china-method - 2025-12-23
Youngeun Koo has published an open-access article in the Journal of Social History on the history of the orphan registry and adoption law, exploring the emergence of modern governance in South Korea. This article explores the development of international adoption policy in post-liberation South Korea, emphasizing the roles of American and Korean professional social workers. By analyzing the orphan
Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill. his chapter discusses how the official religious policies stipulated in the so-called Document 19 issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982 have transformed into the current religious laws and policies under Xi Jinping. The post-Mao
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-12-23
We are excited to announce the release of a new anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements' (Bloomsbury Academic), edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Jinyan Zeng. Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere examines a variety of urgent feminist issues in 21st-century China, including the #MeToo movement, online misogyn
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/release-anthology-feminist-activism-post-2010-sinosphere - 2025-12-23
New article by Chontida Auikool in the Conversation. This article is a collaboration with The Conversation Indonesia as part of a special edition commemorating 20 years of efforts to rebuild Aceh. Titled Memories of Aceh Chinese: We Too Remember, We Too Belong, it reveals the collective memory of the Aceh Chinese community, reflecting on their ongoing efforts to navigate their presence and identit
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/memories-aceh-chinese-we-too-remember-we-too-belong - 2025-12-23
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast. The episodes deal with academic freedom issues in Thailand, China and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a Tibetan filmmaker. The episodes were hosted and produced by several of the Centre's PhD students and our intern. Two of them were pro
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nordic-asia-podcasts - 2025-12-23
Paul O'Shea published a peer-reviewed article with East Asia Forum on the developments in EU-Japan political and security relations. In November 2024, the European Union and Japan expanded on their 2018 agreements with a new security and defence partnership. While it promises greater cooperation, the agreement remains largely exploratory and vague, lagging behind the rapid pace of global geopolit
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-japan-eu-security-relations - 2025-12-23
President Trump says China is operating the Panama Canal. But is that the case? Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, was interviewed by France 24 on January 22, 2025, about President Trump's claims that China controls the Panama Canal. In the interview, Tabita explains that China has no direct influence over the canal: It is administered by the Panam
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-about-chinas-involvement-panama-canal - 2025-12-23
On 13 November, Astrid Norén-Nilsson participated in a seminar about the political situation in Cambodia co-organised by Stockholm University's Forum for Asian Studies. In the seminar, Dr Norén-Nilsson spoke alongside Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights. Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia, whilst Thomas Hammarberg spo
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-seminar-about-cambodia - 2025-12-23
The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with a focus on East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the spring 2019. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize a research seminar.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short Ph.D. project description (two pages)and a s
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students-0 - 2025-12-23
Annika Pissin and Eric Clark (Geography, project leader) will investigate the obstacles to and advantages from small-scale diversified agriculture in China and Sweden for three years starting in January 2019. This project examines the role of small-scale agroecological farming in achieving sustainable welfare and sustainable agriculture. The purpose is to analyze barriers to and facilitators of th
Paul O'Shea has published a new article on the issue of US military bases in Japan in Media, War and Conflict. The article examines how a controversial US Marine base in Okinawa is justified by the state and conservative media through the idea of 'deterrence'.Read the full article here
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies announces a photo contest for students enrolled at Lund University Asian cities are vibrant and diverse places that reflect unique histories at the same time as they are undergoing rapid changes. The cities are however often depicted in rather stereotypical fashion in media so the challenge is to explore and visualize cities through images that sho
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualizing-asian-cities-photo-contest - 2025-12-23
From 1 January 2019 the Centre is organisationally placed at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. There it becomes the third section of the Department of History which apart from the section of history also includes the section of human rights. As a result of this organisational change the Asia Library will become the third library at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. The
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-moves-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2025-12-23
Marina Svensson has written a new book chapter on the Chinese platform society. The book Plattformssamhället – den digitala utvecklingens politik, innovation och reglering (The platform society: the politics, innovation and regulation of digital developments) covers a range of issues related to the emerging platform society in Sweden, Europe, and globally. It contains contributions by 14 experts,
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-platform-society-developments-and-challenges - 2025-12-23
Mark Philip Stadler is a PhD student in the field of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting PhD student at the Centre between 14 January to 15 April. Mark's PhD project is about urban poor activism in Jakarta - that is activism by and for the urban poor - and how the activists struggle for changing the rampant urban poverty problematic in a transformative way. The r
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-phd-student-centre - 2025-12-23
The board's task is to promote the strategic work at the Centre and stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration across the faculties. The board consist of (in alphabetical order)Tobias Axelsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History, Lund UniversityStefan Brehm, senior lecturer at the CentreAstrid Norén Nilsson, associate senior lecturer at the CentrePaul O’Shea, associate senior lec
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is co-organising the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course 2-6 December 2019 to be held in Lund. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 7 June.Read more about the conference and course here (pdf) and on the conference website www.digitalasia2019.com
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/digital-asia-conference-call-papers - 2025-12-23
Applications are now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Japan’s and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 15 August 2019 or as per agreement.The person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers within the subject. The postdoctoral fellow should participate in
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-12-23
