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The Centre welcomes visiting research fellows at different stages of their careers who can enrich the research environment and contribute to our activities. Preference will be given to applicants whose research is related to the Centre’s…

https://www.ace.lu.se/research/visiting-research-fellows- 2026-03-09

Article on the memory of 17 April 1975  At the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge take-over of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, the article looks back at this history and then traces out how the memory thereof plays out in…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-astrid-noren-nilsson-has-published-new-article-diplomat-magazine- 2025-04-07

As part of their internship, the candidate will conduct an individually defined academic or policy-orientated project with feedback from researchers at the Centre. The candidate will also be responsible for day-to-day outreach and…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-fall-2025-now-open-applications- 2025-04-10

At a time of increasing political polarizations and global challenges, including climate change and geo-political tensions and wars, and cut-backs in funding for studies on East and South-East Asia in many countries in Europe as well as in…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-has-released-its-strategy-2025-2027- 2025-04-22

Martin Lavička, visiting research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, co-edited a new publication published by the Palacký University Press. Ideas on the (human) body, gender, and identity lie at the core of many…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/martin-lavicka-co-edited-new-publication-titled-embodied-entanglements-gender-identity-and-corporeal-0- 2025-05-05

The latest issue of the Made in China Journal has been published with a special section on journalism in China today Is journalism in China dead? As state control grows and old outlets vanish, new forms are emerging—from citizen exposés to…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/made-china-journal-volume-9-issue-2- 2025-05-09

On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article investigates the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by women in Chinese context. On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-filmmaker-feminist-jinyan-zeng- 2025-05-12

On Tuesday, 3 June, Tabita Rosendal successfully defended her dissertation "Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka." This dissertation presents a theory on China’s “Fragmented Power” in foreign…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-received-her-doctorate-degree- 2025-06-05

Youngeun Koo writes for The Conversation on Korean-Swedish international adoption history. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Swedish Adoption Commission have released their three-year investigations into the country’s…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/south-korea-finally-reckoning-its-decades-long-foreign-adoption-scandal- 2025-06-12

Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies was established in 2025. The series mostly includes dissertation but may also include other works. Most works are published both online as open access and in print. To get printed works you may need to…

https://www.ace.lu.se/publications/lund-east-and-southeast-asian-studies- 2026-05-18

Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen | Fragmented Power. The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka | Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies 1  | 2025 | 123 p. | EnglishISSN: 3035-854XISBN: 978-91-90055-04-5, 978-91-90055-05-2 This…

https://www.ace.lu.se/fragmented-power- 2026-03-11

5 February 15:15-17:00, Asia LibraryMartial Law in South Korea: Crisis, Resistance, and the Future of DemocracySpeakers: Erik Mobrand, Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and docent in…

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/perspective-asia-lecture-series/schedule-spring-semester-2025- 2026-05-18

Anders Riel Müller/송연준 is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Stavanger. His current research examines how imaginaries of progress shape political, economic, and cultural relations of production and…

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/disrupted-histories-contested-futures-korean-adoption-politics-and-activism-europe/speakers- 2026-05-04

Conference, May 7-8, 2026 Conference info Co-organizers: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University & Center for Korean Studies, University of TübingenDate: 7-8 May, 2026Venue:7 May:  Asia Library, Centre for East and…

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/disrupted-histories-contested-futures-korean-adoption-politics-and-activism-europe- 2026-05-04

Julia Olsson has published an article in East Asia Forum on how Japan has been tackling its vacant housing problem through policy reforms and awareness campaigns, offering lessons for policymakers worldwide. Japan’s problem of vacant homes…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-seeing-glass-half-full-amid-japans-vacant-housing-crisis- 2025-08-28

27 March, 25-27 April & 25-26 November Entrenched Inequalities - East and WestTheories of inequality have so far almost exclusively been based on the empirical example of Western societies or have offered little more than quantitative data…

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2013- 2024-06-27

The latest issue of Asia in Focus - issue no. 11 has just been published. This issue features three thought-provoking articles on anti-cult measures, student protests, and shadow education. In this issue you will find three thought…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-11-out-now- 2025-09-25

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the Asia in Focus journal—published by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University—with a planned publication date in early summer 2026. Submission…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus-issue-no-12- 2025-10-01

Gina Song Lopez has published an article in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies examining the development of a ‘new’ vegan movement in Taiwan over the past decade. The article examines the emergence of a new cohort of animal rights…

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-vegan-taiwan-animal-liberation-and-climate-activism- 2025-10-03

8-9 May & 6-7 November New Directions, New Challenges - Burma/Myanmar, Laos and North KoreaThe Focus Asia symposium in May 2012 focused on three countries — Burma/Myanmar, Laos and North Korea. Each of these countries in different ways is…

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2012- 2024-06-27