Published 24 June 2015 The conference took place at the Kulturen museum in Lund on 17-18 June and gathered twenty scholars and experts from China, the US, Europe, and Australia. The scholars represented different disciplines and fields, including heritage studies, art and architecture, cultural studies, anthropology, Sinology, and media and communication studies. The multifaceted and complex under

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Published 17 August 2015 Jens Sejrup August 2015 is turning into an unusually eventful month in Japan as the country marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Pacific War as well as restarts operations at a nuclear power plant, the first one to be reactivated since the sector experienced a complete shutdown after the Fukushima disaster. A regula

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Published 25 August 2015 Diego García Rodríguez When sexuality meets faith - article in Inside Indonesia Diego García Rodríguez who graduated this year from the programme has an article titled "When sexuality meets faith" published online in Inside Indonesia.You can read the full article here. 

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Published 22 September 2015 China's Contested Internet, edited by Guobin Yang Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet. Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet, China's Contested Internet, edited by Guobin Yang and published by NIAS Press.For a Q&A with Yang Guobin on the new book, China's Contested Inte

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Published 13 October 2015 Growing Up in Mommy’s Blog - research article in Asiascape: Digital Asia Annika has published an article in the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia about mother-daughter blogs in mainland China, focusing on the changing generational relationship between mothers and young daughters.For further inquiries please contact Annika Pissin.You can find the article here  

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Published 28 October 2015 Jacco Visser Honorary Hydén award to alumnus Jacco Visser at Lund University Development Research Day 2015 The Hydén Award is granted annually to mark the best thesis on socio-economic and political issues in low- and middle-income countries, as presented by a Bachelor or Masters level student at Lund University.This year alumnus Jacco Visser who graduated in June this ye

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Published 11 November 2015 Photo by Marina Svensson Article (in Swedish) by Marina Svensoon in Kinarapport Marina Svensson has published an article (in Swedish), Chinese Photography: Propaganda, social documentary, and art, that discusses the development of photography in China and some recent photo exhibitions.The article was published in Kinarapport number 3, 2015, and is available here.  

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Published 14 December 2015 In the second issue of "Asia in Focus” (published ny NIAS) articles written by former students John Hennessey and Kees Krul can be found. John Hennessey (who graduated in 2011) has written an article titled "Creating a Colonial Consciousness? Reflections on Audience Reception at the Tokyo Colonization Exposition of 1912” and Kees Krul (who graduated in June this year) ha

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Published 21 January 2016 A late congratulations to Asian studies alumnus Korakit Choomgrant who was awarded a doctoral degree on August 13, 2015. The title of his dissertation was ”Out of the Closet: An Understanding of ’Queer Heritage' in the Context of Southeast Asia”.Korakit graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2009. He is currently an assistant dean for students affairs an

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Published 9 February 2016 Some of the speakers and participants attending the symposium. The proceedings from the Focus Asia titled "E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?" are now available. 12-13 November 2015 the Centre arranged Focus Asia: E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?From a critical perspective the symposium examined the sta

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Published 9 February 2016 Likki-Lee speaking in the General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters, NYC 60 Students will be selected as delegates to the 2016 United Nations Academic Impact Global Youth Forum, 25-31 July, 2016, where they will create action plans related to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The students will present these action plans at United Nations Headquarter

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Published 12 February 2016 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, is hereby announcing three tenure track positions; Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern Japan (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern South-East Asia (application now closed) Pl

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Published 16 March 2016 Three new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies have now been published. Each year a number of theses written by students in our Masters Programme in Asian Studies are selected to be published in our working paper series. Among the students who graduated in 2015 the following theses were selected to be published and are now available as

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Published 16 May 2016 Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare Co-authored by a variety of cross-disciplinary contributors, a diversity of research perspectives and methods is reflected in a unique mixture of conceptual chapters, historical analysis of different societal sectors, and case studies of several EU countries, China and the US. Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welf

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Published 26 May 2016 Marina Svensson's article “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo,” has just been published in Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang eds. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China , University of Pennsylvania Press (2016). Marina Svensson's article “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo,” has just been published in Jacqu

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Published 1 September 2016 Professor Hu Yong From 23 August to 30 September the Digital China project is hosting Professor Hu Yong. Prof. Hu Yong is a professor of journalism and communication, Peking University, and a leading scholar on the Chinese Internet. During his stay Professor will among other things give a guest lecture. 

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Published 5 October 2016 Professor Marina Svensson is from 1 October new director of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies. Prof. Svensson takes over the role from Professor Roger Greatrex who is now retiring.Prof. Marina Svensson came to the Centre in 2004 and is since 2014 Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has received research grants from the Swedish Research Council, Riksban

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Published 24 October 2016 Astrid Norén-Nilsson In the forthcoming issue of Pacific Affairs Dr. Astrid Norén-Nilsson will have an article titled "Good Gifts, Bad Gifts and Rights: Cambodian Popular Perceptions and the 2013 Elections” published.  The article explores changing popular conceptions of appropriate models of provision to assess to what extent there has been a growth of a rights-based con

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Published 23 November 2016 Research day on East and South-East Asian Studies On 16 November, the Centre gathered 19 scholars at Lund University, including six scholars at the Centre, to discuss their research and possible future collaboration. The Centre has identified some 26 scholars at Lund University, including ph.d students and more senior scholars, but all were not able to attend. The plan i

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Published 1 December 2016 On 8 December the Lund Human Rights Research Hub will be launched at the Main Building of Lund University . This collaborative initiative brings together more than 50 researchers from different departments and research centres at Lund University to stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. The Centre for East and South-East Asi

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