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OverviewDuring the year, the Centre organised a range of events, including public lectures and workshops. It also hosted four visiting PhD students and welcomed one postdoctoral fellow, one new lecturer, one researcher and two PhD students. 32 new MA students were enrolled and 25 graduated from the programme during the year. Three new BA courses were offered during the year. Staff changes and dev
https://www.ace.lu.se/centres-work-report-2024 - 2025-09-29
Focus Asia is a series of public lectures that the Centre organised regularly between 2004 and 2018. The lectures were given in English, and admission was free of charge. With these public lectures, the Centre intended to provide an opportunity to all those interested to hear Europe’s best scholars in East and South-East Asian Studies speak on important topics concerning contemporary East and Sout
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia - 2025-09-29
16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of our contemporary globa
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The Centre welcomes visiting research fellows at different stages of their careers who can enrich the research environment and contribute to our activities. Preference will be given to applicants whose research is related to the Centre’s research agenda and individual staff members’ research. The number of visiting research fellows we can host at any given point of time depends on office space and
https://www.ace.lu.se/research/visiting-research-fellows - 2025-09-29
Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies was established in 2025. The series mostly includes dissertation but may also include other works. Most works are published both online as open access and in print. To get printed works you may need to contact either the author or Nina Brand.Chief editor: Marina SvenssonISSN: 3035-854X Fragmented PowerTabita Rosendal | Fragmented Power: The Reception of China'
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Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen | Fragmented Power. The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka | Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies 1 | 2025 | 123 s. | EnglishISSN: 3035-854XISBN: 978-91-90055-04-5, 978-91-90055-05-2 This dissertation presents a theory on China’s “Fragmented Power” in foreign politics by examining the reception of the “Belt and Road” Initiative in Sri Lanka. This
https://www.ace.lu.se/fragmented-power - 2025-09-29
5 February 15:15-17:00, Asia LibraryMartial Law in South Korea: Crisis, Resistance, and the Future of DemocracySpeakers: Erik Mobrand, Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and docent in Asian studies and associated researcher in Sociology of Law, Lund University.Hyejin Kim, senior lecturer in political science at the National University of Singapo
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/perspective-asia-lecture-series/schedule-spring-semester-2025 - 2025-09-29
Anders Riel Müller/송연준 is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Stavanger. His current research examines how imaginaries of progress shape political, economic, and cultural relations of production and consumption with a particular focus on aspects of justice. His geographical focus is on Scandinavia and South Korea. He is a founding member of the Social and Spatial
Conference, May 7-8, 2026 Conference info Co-organizers: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University & Center for Korean Studies, University of TübingenDate: 7-8 May, 2026Venue: Asia Library, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Sölvegatan 18 B, LundContact for more information: Youngeun Koo In recent years, transnational adoption has come under increasing scrutiny, wi
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/disrupted-histories-contested-futures-korean-adoption-politics-and-activism-europe - 2025-09-29
7 May 2026 15:00 to 8 May 2026 16:30 | Conference In recent years, transnational adoption has come under increasing scrutiny, with both sending and receiving countries reassessing its contested past. South Korea, the largest and most enduring sending country, has often been examined primarily through a U.S. framework, particularly in relation to U.S. empire and U.S.–ROK relations. This two-day con
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3 November 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Rudra Sil, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and SAS Director of the dual-degree Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business AbstractIn a previous volume, Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford University Press, 2018), my colleagues and I la
15 October 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk The event has been cancelled. Open lecture with Mark Mun Vong, independent scholar of authoritarianism and democratization AbstractCambodia’s 2013 general election delivered a shocking outcome for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). The ruling party was challenged by a united opposition force represented by the Cambodian National Rescue Party, whose pr
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cancelled-stronger-home-louder-abroad-cambodian-politics-2013 - 2025-09-29
16 October 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Julie Yu-Wen Chen, University of Helsinki This presentation is about a book on global knowledge production about China which Julie Chen will publish in 2026. Her book compares the local, regional, and global politics of China-watchers from the twentieth century to the present, with a focus on the past and its connection to the present
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/china-watching-global-knowledge-production-about-china - 2025-09-29
27 March, 25-27 April & 25-26 November Entrenched Inequalities - East and WestTheories of inequality have so far almost exclusively been based on the empirical example of Western societies or have offered little more than quantitative data. However, each social structure is unique in its local and national characteristics. Inequalities of class may be more entrenched in the old democracies of the
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2013 - 2025-09-29
10 December 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Chigusa Yamaura, Associate Professor in Global and Area Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford This talk explores the complex relationship between 'gender equality' and the discourse of demographic crisis in contemporary Japan. Gender equality is currently promoted through various policies and i
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8-9 May & 6-7 November New Directions, New Challenges - Burma/Myanmar, Laos and North KoreaThe Focus Asia symposium in May 2012 focused on three countries — Burma/Myanmar, Laos and North Korea. Each of these countries in different ways is currently experiencing new directions in its political, economic and social development, developments that have been widely reported in the global media. During
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2012 - 2025-09-29
10 May & 13-14 October Japan and the Tsunami Focus Asia in May 2012 took as its topic the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami that on Friday 11 March the same year devastated the seaboard of North-Eastern Honshu. The lectures presented at Focus Asia set the disaster into a context, and examined the consequences of the tragedy.Drawing upon her extensive research regarding the tsunami th
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2011 - 2025-09-29
30 March & 7-10 December Interpreting the Rule of Law in AsiaThe 12th Focus Asia brought leading scholars in law & society from around the world. This one-day conference of public lectures focused on the rule of law in Asia. Many Asian countries enjoyed economic growth and social order without strong legal institutions. However, as policies shifted to more market-oriented solutions, law becomes mo
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2010 - 2025-09-29
26-27 February & 12-13 November Media Cultures and Politics in Asia and BeyondThis 10th Focus Asia event brought together leading media scholars from around the world who discussed media in Asia and beyond. The media in Asia are a relatively new field of academic research and offers important new perspectives on central questions in the study of the media. But media developments in Asia are not on
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2009 - 2025-09-29
