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12 Feb 2026 | News

Going Plant-forward in China

Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez has recently published her article titled “Going Plant-Forward? Dietary Publics and Plant-Based Lifestyle Advocacy in Contemporary China” in Asian...
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10 Feb 2026 | News

Tabita Rosendal was interviewed for France 24 about Panama’s decision to revoke CK Hutchison’s port concessions in Balboa and Cristobal

Panama's decision exemplifies increasing pressure exerted by the US on Latin American countries, and could spell trouble for Beijing's strategic interests in the region
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2 Feb 2026 | News

The Centre announces 1 fully funded PhD position in East and South-East Asian Studies.

East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. ...
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27 Jan 2026 | News

Chontida Auikool has received her doctorate degree

On Tuesday, 27 January, Chontida Auikool successfully defended her dissertation "Aceh Chinese Negotiated Belonging: Memory, Place, and Identity"
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26 Jan 2026 | News

Modalities of Bureaucratic Violence: Bordering via Civil Documentation in Myanmar

New article by Elizabeth Rhoads, co-authored with Natalie Brinham, Kathy Win, and Nan Tinilar Win
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