Published 14 December 2022 Lotus Tower in Colombo. Photo by Kanishka Ranasinghe on Pexels.com New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet In this Danish article, Tabita Rosendal provides an overview of China's use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka, arguing that the CCP is utilizing Buddhist strategic narratives in order to pave the way for the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) smooth imple

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-buddhistiske-diplomati-i-sri-lanka - 2025-05-15

Published 15 December 2022 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2025-05-15

Published 9 January 2023 Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo by Justin Min, Unsplash.com Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime. Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship statu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-citizenship-myanmar-published - 2025-05-15

Published 16 January 2023 Workshop in Jakarta 13 December Two workshops were organized in Phnom Penh on 8 December and in Jakarta on 13 December to discuss research findings with civil society activists The workshops concluded the Swedish Research Council-funded project "New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia" which brought together researchers from Lund University, Universita

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/workshops-civil-society-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-05-15

Published 19 January 2023 Photo by Nhat Nguyen Hoang on Unsplash Benjamin Davies has co-authored a report on Sweden’s relationship with Taiwan. The report has been published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Swedish National China Centre. This report (in Swedish), co-written with Viking Bohman, describes the history of Taiwan and its foreign relations, with a focus on Swed

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/report-swedens-relationship-taiwan-released - 2025-05-15

Published 30 January 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social 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 on the East Asia Forum website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2022 - 2025-05-15

Published 20 February 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in  Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil so

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-leadership-southeast-asia - 2025-05-15

Published 3 April 2023 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 submiss

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-open-applications-0 - 2025-05-15

Published 19 November 2018 Astrid Norén-Nilsson 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 develo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-seminar-about-cambodia - 2025-05-15

Published 21 November 2018 The Asia Library 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students-0 - 2025-05-15

Published 28 November 2018 Annika Pissin 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 a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/formas-grant-swedish-research-council-environment-agricultural-sciences-and-spatial-planning - 2025-05-15

Published 29 November 2018 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/strategic-narratives-and-us-military-bases-japan-how-deterrence-makes-marine-base-okinawa - 2025-05-15

Published 30 November 2018 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 cit

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualizing-asian-cities-photo-contest - 2025-05-15

Published 13 December 2018 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 H

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-moves-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2025-05-15

Published 8 January 2019 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 cont

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-platform-society-developments-and-challenges - 2025-05-15

Published 28 January 2019 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-phd-student-centre - 2025-05-15

Published 19 February 2019 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-new-strategic-board-has-been-appointed-board-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2025-05-15

Published 19 February 2019 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 - 2025-05-15

Published 8 March 2019 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-05-15

Published 27 March 2019 Debate article published in Dagens Nyheter An article arguing for the need for more focus on Asian studies in Sweden was just been published in Dagens Nyheter and Marina Svensson, Director here at the Centre, is one of the authors. The article is only available in Swedish.Read the full article here  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/poor-knowledge-asian-societies-sweden - 2025-05-15