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Previous doctoral projects En ny generation lärostycken: Frågor till de införstådda.By John HanseThis thesis takes the play as a historical idea of a theater produced in relation to a political movement. Through participation in the collective creation of two theater performances, Violence & Pedagogy and Body & Punishment, the dissertation work becomes part of the learning of two social phenomena,

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/en-ny-generation-larostycken-fragor-till-de-inforstadda - 2025-11-03

Previous PhD project Handlingarnas sken: om litterär slitning i det dramatiskaAnnika NymanIn the research project Dubbla tragedier - om att låta en litterär slitning transform ett dramatiskt skrivande, Annika Nyman takes as her point of departure what she defines as a literary rift, which is about the different abilities of two disciplines to deal with narrativity. The traditional drama's focus on

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/handlingarnas-sken-om-litterar-slitning-i-det-dramatiska - 2025-11-03

Senior research project Improvisation och avsikt: Mot en teori om improvisatorisk kognitionSven BjerstedtThe study of improvisational acts and the types of cognition at work in such acts can make valuable contributions to our general understanding of the human mind and human action.An improvisational stance can be said to be central to all human action, not least to oral conversation. This project

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/improvisation-och-avsikt-mot-en-teori-om-improvisatorisk-kognition - 2025-11-03

12 February 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. In merely two decades, China transformed from a digital newcomer to the world's largest e-commerce market, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom, Lizhi Liu unveils the surprising forces behind this ex

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/click-boom-political-economy-e-commerce-china - 2025-11-03

26 March 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Marius Palz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, University of Oxford American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to Tokyo, these islands have been of strategic importance for the US presenc

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/welcome-sacrifice-zones-fear-and-militarism-okinawa - 2025-11-03

16 April 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Dr Ilias Alami, Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development, University of Cambridge The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimen

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/spectre-state-capitalism - 2025-11-03

https://www.ace.lu.se/meet-youngeun-koo - 2025-11-03

OverviewDuring the year, the Centre organised a range of events, including public lectures and workshops. It also hosted four visiting PhD students and welcomed one postdoctoral fellow, one new lecturer, one researcher and two PhD students. 32 new MA students were enrolled and 25 graduated from the programme during the year. Three new BA courses were offered during the year.  Staff changes and dev

https://www.ace.lu.se/centres-work-report-2024 - 2025-11-03

Focus Asia is a series of public lectures that the Centre organised regularly between 2004 and 2018. The lectures were given in English, and admission was free of charge. With these public lectures, the Centre intended to provide an opportunity to all those interested to hear Europe’s best scholars in East and South-East Asian Studies speak on important topics concerning contemporary East and Sout

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia - 2025-11-03

16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of our contemporary globa

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2025-11-03

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https://www.ace.lu.se/form/applied-fieldwork-course-evaluation - 2025-11-03

12 March 2025 15:00 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk At this event, three recent PhD graduates will share their experiences. They come from different disciplines and universities but their theses focus on some aspects of East and South-East Asian societies. The PhD graduates will discuss, among other things, their choice of thesis topic, area vs discipline challenges, if any, how they have chosen which cou

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/meet-three-recent-phd-graduates - 2025-11-03

21 March 2025 14:00 to 16:15 | Seminar Empowering the State: Unveiling Cambodia’s Welfare Policy Impact on Governance This study examines Cambodia’s political landscape between 2013 and 2023, with a particular focus on the aftermath of key elections that shaped the country’s trajectory. It analyzes the political repercussions of the 2013 election, which marked a turning point in Cambodia’s governa

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cambodian-politics-epidemics-and-pandemics - 2025-11-03

7 May 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Yewon Lee, Department of Korean Studies at University of Tübingen. Tenant shopkeepers are micro-entrepreneurs or petit bourgeoisie that are often dismissively labeled as unrevolutionary, reactionary, and individualistic. Scholarly literature contributes to this invisibility. However, tenant shopkeepers in urban Korea are collectively organ

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/defending-livelihoods-speculative-city-politics-class-and-solidarity-tenant-shopkeepers-urban-korea - 2025-11-03

8 April 2025 09:00 | The rule of law is a core principle endorsed by the United Nations, emphasising accountability, equality before the law, independent adjudication, and alignment with international human rights norms. It plays a crucial role in ensuring peace, security, political stability, economic development, and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.Yet, according to the World J

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/workshop-exploring-rule-law-asia-global-perspectives-regional-dynamics-and-chinas-impact - 2025-11-03

The Centre welcomes visiting research fellows at different stages of their careers who can enrich the research environment and contribute to our activities. Preference will be given to applicants whose research is related to the Centre’s research agenda and individual staff members’ research. The number of visiting research fellows we can host at any given point of time depends on office space and

https://www.ace.lu.se/research/visiting-research-fellows - 2025-11-03

9 May 2025 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Ken Hijino, Professor at Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University As in many other places, the question of depopulating and economically disadvantaged communities, primarily in rural areas, has been a salient political issue for both Japan and Sweden. For decades, Japanese administrations have promoted the “balanced development of the nati

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/politics-periphery-and-depopulation-japan-and-sweden - 2025-11-03

12 May 2025 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Monique Taylor, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki. This paper examines the geopolitical dimensions of China’s strategy to internationalise the renminbi (RMB) and reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar. Far from a purely financial initiative, RMB internationalisa

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/challenging-dollar-dominance-geopolitical-dimensions-rmb-internationalisation - 2025-11-03

3 June 2025 13:00 to 15:00 | Thesis defence Tabita Rosendal is defending her doctoral dissertation. Tabita Rosendal at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is defending her doctoral dissertation "Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka." The faculty opponent is Professor Julie Yu-Wen Chen, University of Helsinki.More information about the thesi

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/phd-defense-east-and-southeast-asian-studies-tabita-rosendal - 2025-11-03

14 May 2025 13:15 to 14:45 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Patrick Meehan, University of Manchester ‘Bringing development’ to ‘peripheral’ borderland regions has become a powerful trope in development policy across South and Southeast Asia, evident in strategies like India’s Look East policy and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This approach exemplifies what David Harvey critically terms a “diff

https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/centrality-margins-borderlands-illicit-economies-and-uneven-development - 2025-11-03