Search results

Elizabeth Rhoads has co-authored a new article with Jayde Lin Roberts on Myanmar’s social infrastructure of nalehmu. This new article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myanmar. Nalehmu is Myanmar’s discreet and prolonged prac

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-social-infrastructure-myanmar - 2026-04-25

The Centre announces two 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 humanities and social sciences disciplines. Application deadline February 15, 20

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-0 - 2026-04-25

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. Read the article on the East Asia Forum web site

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2021 - 2026-04-25

Paulina Kolata has co-authored a journal article with Gwendolyn Gillson on the importance of food literacy and its aesthetics in contemporary Japanese Buddhism. Along with the other articles in the Numen Special Issue ‘The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World’ that it contributes to, the article explores the generative and disruptive force of affects tha

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-gender-and-food-japanese-buddhism - 2026-04-25

Paulina Kolata has recently published an article in Allegra Lab on Buddhist material excess in contemporary Japan. The piece contributes to the thematic thread on “Heritage out of Control” that developed from the ‘Heritage out of Control: Waste, Spirits, Energies’ Workshop hosted by the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory.” The thematic thread offers a collection of short articles explori

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-material-religion-excess-and-depopulation-japan - 2026-04-25

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics The article, published in Asian Studies Review, seeks to recover strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics from the period leading up to Independence onwards. It is part of the Special Issue 'Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia'. Read the full article on Taylor&Francis Online website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-liberalism-cambodia - 2026-04-25

Tabita Rosendal, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has written an article on the Sino-Danish relationship for the People’s Map of Global China. In the article she argues that while Denmark retains its pragmatic approach to China and largely frames the Sino-Danish relationship in terms of economic diplomacy, controversies related to human rights have strained bilatera

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/denmark-peoples-map-global-china - 2026-04-25

Workshop 21-22 April at the Centre This workshop will discuss ethical, methodological, and practical issues and choices when using visual methods. Five keynote speakers from different disciplines will share and discuss their work using images, multimedia and film as part of their research. The workshop invites a limited number of participants at Lund University to present and discuss either previo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visual-methods-and-practices-research-new-work-ideas-and-approaches - 2026-04-25

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the communication of food safety risk in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster (2011-2020). Tine Walravens, Nicolai Ahrenkiel, and Paul O'Shea published '‘Let's eat Fukushima’: communicating risk and restoring ‘safe food’ after the Fukushima disaster (2011-2020)' in Japan Forum this month. The article draws on three case studies, spanning 2011 to 2020, t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-food-safety-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster - 2026-04-25

Paul O'Shea has written an article on how international relations theory is being misused to explain the war in Ukraine. The article is in Swedish, but Google Translate provides a very good translation or you can read this translated version (PDF, 90kB, new window).  The article examines the question: who is to blame for Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Prominent members of the 'realist' school have

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-misusing-and-international-relations-theory-explain-war-ukraine - 2026-04-25

Paul O'Shea has written a new article on the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for disputed territories around the world. The article examines the history of territorial annexation and shows how, post-1945, a norm against conquest emerged. A successful annexation of Ukrainian territory would seriously erode this norm, however, setting a major precedent. This could have impacts especially for

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-invasion-ukraine-could-change-global-map - 2026-04-25

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges, uncertainties, and resilience Tabita Rosendal, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has written a Danish article for the Denmark-China magazine (Danmark-Kina magasinet). In it, she provides an overview of the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) current progress, as well as the challenges and uncertainties it faces on the nation

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-silkevejsinitiativ-udfordringer-uvished-og-udholdenhed - 2026-04-25

Nicholas Loubere has co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method, published by Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Global China series. Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method. The book argues that even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-global-china - 2026-04-25

After several years of expert management at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, the journal has moved across the Öresund to Sweden. Asia in Focus is a peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year. The focal point of the journal is modern Asian societies viewed from the standpoints of social sciences and humanities. The geographical focus is Central Asia to Oceania

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-has-found-new-home-centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2026-04-25

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s use of Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka The article, published in The Pacific Review, analyzes how China’s Buddhist strategic narratives have been used to further the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) progress in Sri Lanka, and argues that under the BRI’s ‘people-to-people’ bonds, Chinese and Sri Lankan officials have used the Buddhist h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinas-buddhist-strategic-narratives-sri-lanka-benefits-and-buddhism - 2026-04-25

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s stake in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis, and what this tells us about the Belt and Road Initiative. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes what the Sri Lanka’s debt crisis can tell us about China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI). During Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, China initially seemed to take a step back, leaving everyone to wonder wheth

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/development-debt-and-distress-examining-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-through-analysis - 2026-04-25

Marina Svensson has published a photo essay in Visual Ethnography. The essay addresses through images and text the work and rituals surrounding the making and printing of genealogies in China. It documents how lineages and printmakers negotiate a new socio-economic environment under the process of heritagization, the materiality and labor of printmaking, and the spaces in which work and rituals ta

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/genealogy-making-and-lineages-postsocialist-china-space-labor-and-rituals-under-processes - 2026-04-25

Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes how China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. The article recounts how, in recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has worked hard to mitigate criticism of

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/belt-and-road-buddhism-sri-lanka - 2026-04-25

Last September was the application deadline for new PhD students who want to join the SWEAH research school next year. A total of 14 applications were received, from 5 men and 9 women at 5 of the 13 partner universities; Dalarna University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University, Lund University and Umeå University. Two of the applications were not complete and will therefore not be processed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/now-new-doctoral-students-are-reviewed - 2026-04-25

SWEAH alumnus Wossenseged Jemberie, Umeå University, receives Forte establishment grant and alumni Anna Marseglia and Kuan Yu-Pan, KI, receives Forte project grant. Assistant Professor Anna Marseglia at Karolinska Institutet receives Forte project grant - almost SEK 5 million - to a project about gender differences in social health, resilience and cognition across the life course (the interplay of

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/millions-sweah-alumni-projects - 2026-04-25