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CMES Director Karin Aggestam has contributed to the yearbook of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, writing about Israel, Palestine, and just peace. Karin Aggestam (2025), ”Israel, Palestina och den rättvisa freden [Israel, Palestine and Just Peace]”, Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds Box.The contribution is available to read here.Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is an independent foundation with the goal of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-and-just-peace - 2026-01-15

Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) visited CMES to share her work on an agonistic approach to ethnographic research in Palestine and Israel. On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fiel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-shattered-landscapes-agonistic-approach-ethnography-palestine-and-israel - 2026-01-15

CMES Researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has been granted Lund University’s GloHub seed funding for an international collaboration on Islamic Studies. The initiative brings together researchers from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and scholars from Lund University, representing both the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).As

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/glohub-seed-funding-sami-al-daghistani-islamic-studies-collaboration - 2026-01-15

Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2026-01-15

Read the April CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publication

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-51 - 2026-01-15

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2026-01-15

CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem University), The Republic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2026-01-15

Welcome to a CMES Public Talk with Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES will host a public talk with renowned Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. The talk will be in conversation with Lisa Strömbom (Department of Political Science, Lund University), and moderated by CMES Director Karin Aggestam.This event is a collaboration with Lund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/whither-israel-upcoming-public-cmes-talk-goran-rosenberg - 2026-01-15

CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has written an article for The Conversation about the recent developments in the negotiations between Turkey and PKK. AbstractNegotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in whi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/why-are-turkey-and-pkk-turning-peace-and-can-it-last - 2026-01-15

On 8 May, Rola El-Husseini Dean (Lund University) held a CMES Research Seminar on the rise and fall of Hezbollah. Rola El-Husseini Dean is an associate professor with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. She has previously held positions at Yale University, Texas A&M University, and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Her first book Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Leba

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-rise-and-fall-hezbollah - 2026-01-15

EastAsiaNet has recently announced that the 2014 Award for Best Academic Article goes to Dr. Jens Sejrup of Lund University for his paper, "Instrumentalized History and the Motif of Repetition in News Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations," published in Pacific Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 745–765. The EastAsiaNet Award recognizes and encourages exemplary scholarship in contemporary East Asian studie

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/dr-jens-sejrup-wins-2014-eastasianet-award-best-academic-article - 2026-01-15

The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from different disciplines and research fields, among others gender studies, communication

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-gender-and-communication-22-23-september-2014-beijing - 2026-01-15

Four new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies series are now available as PDF files.To the working papers

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-working-papers - 2026-01-15

Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries in Shanghai 28-31 October. Call for papers to research workshop and ph.d course with deadline 1 April, 2014.These activities are organised by the Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network of which the Centre is a member.For further information see here (new window) 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-sustainable-city-development-theories-methods-challenges-and-experiences-china-and - 2026-01-15

Lund University hereby declares the following vacancy at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies open for application. The application deadline is May 15, 2014. Please spread this information in your networks.More information

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-fellow-modern-chinese-studies - 2026-01-15

Postdoctoral research fellow Jens Sejrup has published the article "Awakening the Sufferers: Reflections on Public Relations, Activism, and Subalternity in Postcolonial Controversies between Taiwan and Japan" in SAGE journal Public Relations Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014).

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-jens-sejrup - 2026-01-15

Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information see here (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson-0 - 2026-01-15

The centre is currently looking for a full time administrator (limited tenure to 2015-07-31). QualificationsDocumented excellent ability in Swedish and English, a B.A. or comparable qualification in economics, experience of the administrative systems in use at Lund University (e.g. purchasing routines, DFS, Primula, e-recruitment, etc) as well as excellent competence in using Office software (e.g.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/availble-job-centre - 2026-01-15

Malte P. Benjamins who graduated in 2013 from the programme has an article titled  "International actors in NIMBY controversies: Obstacle or opportunity for environmental campaigns?" published online in the China Information journal. The article will also available be in China Information's November issue.To the article

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-alumnus-malte-p-benjamins - 2026-01-15

Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-8th-euroseas-conference-vienna - 2026-01-15