Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology

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13 Jan 2025 | News

New article on Japan-EU security relations

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9 Jan 2025 | News

Nordic Asia Podcasts

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast.

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11 Dec 2024 | News

Memories of Aceh Chinese: We too remember, we too belong

New article by Chontida Auikool in the Conversation.

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4 Dec 2024
Release of Anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere'
We are excited to announce the release of a new anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements' (Bloomsbury Aca...
15 Nov 2024
New publication: Opium of the People? Religious Politics in the Xi Jinping Era
Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill.
13 Nov 2024
New Publication: "The Paradoxical Development of Liberal Governance: International Adoption Policy and Professional Social Work in Authoritarian South Korea, 1953–1976”
Youngeun Koo has published an open-access article in the Journal of Social History on the history of the orphan registry and adoption law, exploring the emergence of modern governa...
4 Nov 2024
Korean translation of Global China as Method
A Korean translation of the book Global China as Method (co-authored by Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini) has been published.
25 Oct 2024
Congratulations to Astrid and Paul!
Who have both received RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) Sabbatical grants.
15 Oct 2024
Asia in Focus Issue no. 10 is out now!
The second issue since the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies overtook publication, features another round of thought-provoking articles written by early career scholars.
8 Oct 2024
Q&A Interview with National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR Asia) on Japanese foreign policy
Paul O’Shea was interviewed by NBR Asia on the state of Japan’s foreign and security policy since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
4 Sep 2024
New publication: “The Specter of Potential Foreigners: Revisiting the Postcolonial Citizenship Regimes of Myanmar and India”
New research on Burma and India by Elizabeth Rhoads co-authored with Ritanjan Das at Leiden University, takes a comparative historical approach, tracing citizenship policies in bot...
28 Aug 2024
"Current Dynamics in Southeast Asia: New perspectives in political economy and comparative politics"
Launch of new European seminar series
27 Aug 2024
New publication: "Reimagining Species Relations: A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund University"
Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of this new anthology.