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Global China Summer School 2025: China in Circuits of Global Extractivism

16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of our contemporary globa

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2025-06-07

Visiting research fellows

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 research agenda and individual staff members’ research. The number of visiting research fellows we can host at any given point of time depends on office space and

https://www.ace.lu.se/research/visiting-research-fellows - 2025-06-07

Lund East and Southeast Asian Studies

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 contact either the author or Nina Brand (nina [dot] brand [at] ace [dot] lu [dot] se).Chief editor: Marina SvenssonISSN: 3035-854X Fragmented PowerTabita Rosen

https://www.ace.lu.se/publications/lund-east-and-southeast-asian-studies - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2013

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. However, each social structure is unique in its local and national characteristics. Inequalities of class may be more entrenched in the old democracies of the

https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/focus-asia/focus-asia-2013 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2012

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2011

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2010

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2009

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2008

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2007

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2006

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2005

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2004

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 - 2025-06-07

Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies (2004 - 2017)

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 - 2025-06-07

Focus Asia 2014

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 - 2025-06-07

XVII EACS Conference

The XVIIth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) was held at Lund University, Sweden, between 6-10 August 2008.The conference title was ‘China Centre Stage’, reflecting the momentous event that would take place during August 2008 in China, namely the XXIXth Olympic Games. The conference also commemorated the 60th anniversary of the first meeting in Cambridge of

https://www.ace.lu.se/xvii-eacs-conference - 2025-06-07

About the Centre

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies  (Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier) focuses on interdisciplinary education and research on contemporary East and South-East Asia. Organizationally the Centre is a section of the Department of History in the Joint Faculties of the Humanities and Theology. The Centre is headed by a director and for its strategic work it also relies on an adviso

https://www.ace.lu.se/about-centre - 2025-06-07

After your studies

Career prospects and Alumni network As a graduate of the MSc Programme in Asian Studies you have a number of career opportunities available to you after your graduation. Many graduates continue to doctoral studies at universities throughout Europe and beyond. Currently, our graduates are enrolled in doctoral programmes in a wide range of fields including political science, economic history, servic

https://www.ace.lu.se/education/after-your-studies - 2025-06-07

The January admission round

Admission requirements Before you apply please make sure that you read our admission requirements. When to apply Application opens: October 16, 2017Application deadline: January 15, 2018 How to applyApplications should be made online at universityadmissions.se - the national Swedish site for university applications:Direct link to the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in the universityadmissions.s

https://www.ace.lu.se/january-admission-round - 2025-06-07