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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

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/disrupted-histories-contested-futures-korean-adoption-politics-and-activism-europe - 2025-10-25

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

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/what-comparative-area-studies-cas-brings-table-leveraging-and-integrating-area-based-knowledge - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/gender-equality-or-inequality-era-demographic-crisis-japan - 2025-10-25

17 November 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Dr. Teng Biao, human rights lawyer and a Visiting Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg The rapid development of digital technologies has enabled the Chinese government to deploy new tools of social control. The unprecedented “high-tech totalitarianism” combines traditional repression with cutting-edge technolog

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/chinas-high-tech-totalitarianism-and-its-impacts-global-order - 2025-10-25

19 March 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Prof. Francis L. F. Lee, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong Many journalists around the world work in challenging and dangerous environments, and a bourgeoning body of research has focused on how journalists in these environments deal with various kinds of risks. This talk proposes that we can employ

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/how-journalists-survive-challenging-reporting-environments-role-journalistic-risk-culture - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

12 November 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Wrenn Yennie Lindgren, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) NATO states and Japan share much in common, including core values of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and free markets. They also share a mutual security provider in the United States. Yet despite many common interests across economic, political, and secu

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/new-geography-danger-japans-shifting-global-security-role-and-relations-nato - 2025-10-25

5 November 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Maxime Boutry, French National Research Council (CNRS) Successive military governments of Myanmar have relied on a process of selective commemoration and obliteration of the past to legitimize their power, hence producing a fractured memorial landscape. At the same time, the state has used urbanization and erasure to control dissentin

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/silent-crossings-bridges-and-contestation-memory-myanmar - 2025-10-25

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/research/call-applications-early-career-visiting-scholar-korean-studies - 2025-10-25

28 October 2025 16:00 to 17:30 | Other Panel discussion with Kimhean Hok and Karin Zackari. Can we make sense of a seemingly senseless conflict between two neighbors? Thailand and Cambodia, two Southeast Asian countries, that at the look of it have everything to gain from peacefully coexisting, are caught up in a border conflict that has cost lives, displaced hundreds of thousands, and disrupted l

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cambodia-thailand-border-conflict-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow - 2025-10-25

5 November 2025 09:30 to 12:00 | Welcome to a two-hour symposium to discuss recent developments and historical perspectives on human rights and environmental politics together with civil society actors and scholars in the Lund University’s Human Rights Profile Area. This event will focus on recent backlashes against human rights and environmental politics and explore the underlying reasons for it

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/human-rights-and-environmental-politics-recent-developments-and-historical-perspectives - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

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 - 2025-10-25

8-9 May & 25 November Moral and Political Leadership in Asia  The overall theme for the Focus Asia lectures in spring 2008 was moral and political leadership in Asia. After the tsunami catastrophe in 2004 religious leadership became pivotal and for many individual survivors religion became their lifeline. Two lectures addressed Buddhist leadership in the aftermath of the tsunami in Thailand and in

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2008 - 2025-10-25

16-18 April R&D and technological change in China Research and development has become a global task that is no longer limited to the leading industrialized nations. In recent years China is emerging as a new centre for knowledge production. Between 1995 and 2004 China doubled its R&D expenditures from 0.6% to 1.3% of its GDP and increased its number of researchers by 77%. With a budget of    € 102

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2007 - 2025-10-25

26-27 April & 22-23 November Religious and Social movements in East and South-East AsiaOn 26 April the lectures addressed new developments and research regarding the social and political role of religion in contemporary East and South-East Asian societies. In China and Japan we see a revival of religion and a redefinition of religion as a result of both domestic and global developments. In the Sou

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2006 - 2025-10-25

24-26 May & 23-24 November Hiroshima: Memory and Threat 60 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Center for East and South-East Asian Studies, arranged a symposium titled Hiroshima: Memory and Threat at Kulturen (Swedish Museum of the Year 2004) in Lund. An exhibition of drawings by hibakusha, “Drawings from Hiroshima Peace Museum – 60 Years after the Bomb” was also held a

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2005 - 2025-10-25

25-27 May & 25-26 November FOCUS ASIA 25-27 May 2004 The first Focus Asia public lecture series was held in May 2004. The speakers were the leading experts in Europe in their respective fields of research. The lectures covered the entire region from Indonesia to Japan, and dealt with a wide range of timely issues, from new perspectives on Indonesia’s modern history and China’s cultural heritage, t

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2004 - 2025-10-25