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19 March 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Prof. Francis L. F. Lee, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong Many journalists around the world work in challenging and dangerous environments, and a bourgeoning body of research has focused on how journalists in these environments deal with various kinds of risks. This talk proposes that we can employ
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 currently experiencing new directions in its political, economic and social development, developments that have been widely reported in the global media. During
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2012 - 2025-12-23
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University is pleased to announce the launch of the NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies), generously supported by the Yang Won Sun Foundation.The NEST program is designed to help early-career scholars gain teaching experience and networking opportunities in an international academic environment. It aims to
https://www.ace.lu.se/research/call-applications-early-career-visiting-scholar-korean-studies - 2025-12-23
The Centre has open calls for applications for Visiting PhD Research Fellows twice per year. The Centre has open calls for Visiting PhD Research Fellows from 1 October to 30 November (for those wishing to start in the spring term) and 1 March to 30 April (for those wishing to start in the autumn term). Preference will be given to applicants whose research is related to the Centre’s research agenda
https://www.ace.lu.se/research/visiting-phd-research-fellows - 2025-12-23
10 May & 13-14 October Japan and the Tsunami Focus Asia in May 2012 took as its topic the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami that on Friday 11 March the same year devastated the seaboard of North-Eastern Honshu. The lectures presented at Focus Asia set the disaster into a context, and examined the consequences of the tragedy.Drawing upon her extensive research regarding the tsunami th
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2011 - 2025-12-23
11 February 2026 13:15 to 15:00 | Lecture/talk This talk by Dr. Daniel Sprick examines two case studies that illuminate China’s AI governance from different perspectives: judicial AI within the Smart Court agenda, and recommendation algorithms deployed by social media platforms. China’s approach to AI governance employs multiple strategies to align this technology with its normative order and valu
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/engineering-compliance-chinas-authoritarian-approach-ai-governance - 2025-12-23
8 September 16:00-17:30, Asia LibraryMilitary Battles and Cultural Wars: Approaching Ethnic Insurgency in Upland Southeast AsiaSpeaker: Jane M Ferguson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian History at the Australian National UniversityMore information here 17 September 15:15-17:00, Asia LibraryGender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among Only DaughtersSpeaker: Ye Liu, Reader
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/perspective-asia-lecture-series/schedule-fall-semester-2025 - 2025-12-23
4 February 2026 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Dr. Minyoung Kim, inaugural NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies) Scholar at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and lecturer at Yonsei University In December 2024, then-President Yoon declared martial law in South Korea, shocking both the Korean public and the global community. Mass prot
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/mourning-resistance-and-festivity-disaster-generation-and-protest-affect-south-korea - 2025-12-23
28 January 2026 15:15 to 17:00 | Lecture/talk Open lecture with Professor Yew-Foong Hui, Hong Kong Shue Yan University In defending Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore, which was subject to partial clearing to make way for an eight-lane highway, civil society actors argued that the cemetery was a deathscape embedded in a heritage ecology involving culture and nature. Valorised as a cultural heritage
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/uncanny-transcripts-chinese-cemetery-multivocality-and-heritagization-death - 2025-12-23
Chontida Auikool | Aceh Chinese Negotiated Belonging: Memory, Place, and Identity | Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies 2 | 2026 | 355 p. | EnglishISSN: 3035-854XISBN: 978-91-90055--4 This dissertation focuses on Aceh Chinese’s lived experiences in Aceh, an Indonesian province marked by repeated violence and major social changes. These include the 1965–1966 anti-communist mass killings, the pro
https://www.ace.lu.se/aceh-chinese-negotiated-belonging - 2025-12-23
30 March & 7-10 December Interpreting the Rule of Law in AsiaThe 12th Focus Asia brought leading scholars in law & society from around the world. This one-day conference of public lectures focused on the rule of law in Asia. Many Asian countries enjoyed economic growth and social order without strong legal institutions. However, as policies shifted to more market-oriented solutions, law becomes mo
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2010 - 2025-12-23
27 January 2026 10:00 to 12:00 | Thesis defence Chontida Auikool is defending her doctoral dissertation. Chontida Auikool at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is defending her doctoral dissertation "Aceh Chinese Negotiated Belonging: Memory, Place, and Identity”The faculty opponent is Professor Yew-Foong Hui, Hong Kong Shue Yan University More information about the thesis is availa
https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/phd-defense-east-and-southeast-asian-studies-chontida-auikool - 2025-12-23
26-27 February & 12-13 November Media Cultures and Politics in Asia and BeyondThis 10th Focus Asia event brought together leading media scholars from around the world who discussed media in Asia and beyond. The media in Asia are a relatively new field of academic research and offers important new perspectives on central questions in the study of the media. But media developments in Asia are not on
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2009 - 2025-12-23
8-9 May & 25 November Moral and Political Leadership in Asia The overall theme for the Focus Asia lectures in spring 2008 was moral and political leadership in Asia. After the tsunami catastrophe in 2004 religious leadership became pivotal and for many individual survivors religion became their lifeline. Two lectures addressed Buddhist leadership in the aftermath of the tsunami in Thailand and in
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2008 - 2025-12-23
16-18 April R&D and technological change in China Research and development has become a global task that is no longer limited to the leading industrialized nations. In recent years China is emerging as a new centre for knowledge production. Between 1995 and 2004 China doubled its R&D expenditures from 0.6% to 1.3% of its GDP and increased its number of researchers by 77%. With a budget of € 102
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2007 - 2025-12-23
26-27 April & 22-23 November Religious and Social movements in East and South-East AsiaOn 26 April the lectures addressed new developments and research regarding the social and political role of religion in contemporary East and South-East Asian societies. In China and Japan we see a revival of religion and a redefinition of religion as a result of both domestic and global developments. In the Sou
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2006 - 2025-12-23
24-26 May & 23-24 November Hiroshima: Memory and Threat 60 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Center for East and South-East Asian Studies, arranged a symposium titled Hiroshima: Memory and Threat at Kulturen (Swedish Museum of the Year 2004) in Lund. An exhibition of drawings by hibakusha, “Drawings from Hiroshima Peace Museum – 60 Years after the Bomb” was also held a
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2005 - 2025-12-23
25-27 May & 25-26 November FOCUS ASIA 25-27 May 2004 The first Focus Asia public lecture series was held in May 2004. The speakers were the leading experts in Europe in their respective fields of research. The lectures covered the entire region from Indonesia to Japan, and dealt with a wide range of timely issues, from new perspectives on Indonesia’s modern history and China’s cultural heritage, t
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2004 - 2025-12-23
In 2004 the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies started publishing a publication series titled Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies. The aim of the series was to provide a forum for new, interdisciplinary research on contemporary Asia. The series included contributions, each between 25 to 50 pages in length, written by researchers active at the Centre, visiting scholars who have p
https://www.ace.lu.se/about-centre/working-papers-contemporary-asian-studies-2004-2017 - 2025-12-23
Food in Asia 15-16 April, 2014 The exciting field of Food Studies embraced and examined the broad topic of food and its importance in various aspects of life. During this XXIst biannual Focus Asia symposium we sought to gain a broader understanding of the role of food in Asian societies by looking at food from different angles. Leading experts explained the multi-layered importance of food, focusi
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2014 - 2025-12-23
