Schedule Spring Semester 2026

4 February, 15:15-17:00, Asia Library

Mourning, Resistance, and Festivity: “Disaster Generation” and Protest Affect in South Korea  

Speaker: Dr. Minyoung Kim, NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies) Scholar at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. She is currently a lecturer at Yonsei University

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10 February, 10:15-12:00, LUX Building, Room LUXB336

The Politics of History in Today’s China: Legacies of the Late Empire

Speaker: Professor Mark Elliott, Harvard University

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11 February, 13:15-15:00, Asia Library

Engineering Compliance: China’s Authoritarian Approach to AI Governance

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sprick, Research Associate at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne

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18 February, 15:15-17:00, Asia Library

Empire’s Squatters? Towards a Critique of Land, Law and the Coloniality of Dispossession in Malaysia

Speaker: Kia Meng Boon, Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen

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4 March, 15:15-17:00, Asia Library

Salvage fish: Commodification of fisheries last resort  

Speaker: Associate Professor Alin Kadfak, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

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13 April, 10:00-12:00, Zoom

Understanding China: Identities, Worldviews, and Strategic Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific

Speaker: Professor Kai He, Griffith University, Australia

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29 April, 15:15-17:00, Asia Library

China, Law and Development in Cambodia

Speaker: Sokphea Young

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