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Gina Song Lopez has published an article in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies examining the development of a ‘new’ vegan movement in Taiwan over the past decade. The article examines the emergence of a new cohort of animal rights and vegan advocacy actors in the wake of the socially receptive period that followed the Sunflower Movement. The paper introduces the activists and organization

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-vegan-taiwan-animal-liberation-and-climate-activism - 2025-11-01

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University is pleased to announce the launch of the NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies), generously supported by the Yang Won Sun Foundation. The NEST program is designed to help early-career scholars gain teaching experience and networking opportunities in an international academic environment. It aims to

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-applications-early-career-visiting-scholar-korean-studies - 2025-11-01

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 please see here 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2025-11-01

Marina Svensson's article ‘Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo’ has just been published in a special issue on the Chinese internet in the journal China Information , July 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 168-188.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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

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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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

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 - 2025-11-01

Researchers within the Digital China project presented papers at two conferences in Beijing on 22-24 September. The Centre together with CASS co-organised the 5th Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Conference on the topic of gender and communication as well as the 2nd Sino-Swedish ICT4D conference. The conferences gathered a total of 85 participants and dealt with issues related to gender equality, repr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/5th-sino-nordic-women-and-gender-conference-and-2nd-sino-swedish-ict4d-conference - 2025-11-01

Abstract deadline: 1 December 2014Conference dates: 5-6 March 2015You are most welcome to the Eleventh Annual NAJS Conference. The conference will take place at the Centre for East and South-­East Asian Studies, Lund University.We invite paper proposals on a broad set of topics related to Japanese society and culture, past and present, including politics and international relations, economy and bu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-eleventh-najs-conference-study-contemporary-japanese-society - 2025-11-01

Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Series pu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gender-equality-and-empowerment-china - 2025-11-01

Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-mina-roces - 2025-11-01

Monica Lindberg Falk has published the monograph Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural responses. Routledge Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. This book addresses culture as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery,it uses original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to provide in-depth ethnography of Thailand’s recovery. With a foc

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-monograph-associate-professor-monica-lindberg-falk - 2025-11-01

We congratulate Asian studies alumna Montserrat López Jerez who will defend her doctoral dissertation "Deltas Apart : Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam" at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. The public defence takes place on December 19, 10:15 in EC3: 207.AbstractThis study provides an explanation of the different pathways

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/defence-doctoral-dissertation - 2025-11-01