About the Centre

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies (Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier) focuses on interdisciplinary education and research on contemporary East and South-East Asia. Organizationally the Centre is a section of the Department of History in the Joint Faculties of the Humanities and Theology. The Centre is headed by a director and for its strategic work it also relies on an advisory board. The staff at the Centre include researchers, administrative staff and PhD students.

List of current staff at the Centre

The Centre’s goals are to:

Promote a strong research environment and be a leading institution in Europe.
Serve as a meeting place for scholars at Lund University with an interest in East and South-East Asia, and to foster longer-term collaboration on joint research projects.
Engage in collaboration with scholars at other universities in Sweden and beyond through, for example, joint research projects and the hosting of visiting scholars.
Develop research-led teaching programmes at the undergraduate and graduate levels in order to foster cohorts of students with area-specific expertise.
Foster a new generation of scholars through a PhD programme and through a Graduate School in Asian Studies.
Organize seminars, public lectures, workshops, film screenings, and other events in order to discuss topical issues and disseminate research to a wider public.

The Centre runs an interdisciplinary Master's programme and has individual courses at both bachelor level and master level as well as a PhD. Programme.

Information about our Master's programme.

Information about our stand-alone courses.

Information about our PhD. Programme.

The Centre also houses a library, the Asia Library, which opened in 1999. The collection is interdisciplinary and focuses on contemporary issues in East and South-East Asia.

The Asia Library webpage

The Centre is involved in a wide range of activities. These include hosting guest researchers and organising open lectures, seminars, conferences, film screenings and exhibitions.

The Centre's activities page