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Panama's decision exemplifies increasing pressure exerted by the US on Latin American countries, and could spell trouble for Beijing's strategic interests in the region Last week, Tabita Rosendal spoke with France 24 about Panama’s decision to revoke CK Hutchison’s port concessions in Balboa and Cristobal. She explained that the move reflects growing pressure from the Trump administration and fits

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-france-24-about-panamas-decision-revoke-ck-hutchisons-port - 2026-10-07

Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez has recently published her article titled “Going Plant-Forward? Dietary Publics and Plant-Based Lifestyle Advocacy in Contemporary China” in Asian Studies Review. The article discusses China’s growing vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian ‘dietary publics’ across online and offline foodscapes. The study combines digital food studies with onsite fieldwork, and foregro

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-plant-forward-china - 2026-10-07

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024, utilized Buddhist diplomacy to ensure his political legitimacy and longevity - similarly to other Sri Lankan leaders of state Tabita Rosendal has published a new open‑access book chapter in Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, edited by Jack Meng‑Tat Chia, examining Ranil Wickremesinghe’s use of Buddhist diplomacy. Th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-open-access-book-chapter-buddhist-diplomacy-former-sri-lankan - 2026-10-07

Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads was recently interviewed in Nature about her work with Myanmar students and educational providers in displacement. The Pilot Capstone Project led by Lund University and housed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is an international consortium including University of Toronto, Northern Illinois University, University of Montana, and Palacky University

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-outreach-program-myanmar-students-impacted-conflict-and-displacement-highlighted-nature - 2026-10-07

On Monday, 23 March, Gina (Chih-Lan) Song Lopez successfully defended her dissertation "Foodscapes of Civil Society: Veg*n advocacy and sustainability transitions in the Sino-cultural sphere" This dissertation is about social change ‘and’, ‘with’, as well as ‘through’ food. It examines the rise and expansion of novel approaches to veganism and plant-based lifestyles in the Sino-cultural sphere by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gina-chih-lan-song-lopez-has-received-her-doctorate-degree - 2026-10-07

Lund University is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) within the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence. The position will be placed within one of five sustainability themes in the humanities or theology. One of the themes is Governance, Justice and Sustainable Futures (PDF, new tab), placed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies.The application dea

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/assistant-professor-southeast-asian-studies-specialising-governance-justice-and-sustainable-futures - 2026-10-07

In a new Critical Asian Studies article, Kimhean Hok uncovers reform patterns that have significantly strengthened Cambodia’s administrative state while reinforcing authoritarian rule. In the article, Kimhean Hok argues that Cambodia should no longer be understood simply as a system with a strong ruling party and a weak state. Instead, he shows that the country has undergone what he calls a “techn

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-technocracy-cambodian-politics - 2026-10-07

New research project on "Struggles for Peace in a Changing World Order: Insights from the Thai-Cambodian border" Astrid Norén-Nilsson has received a grant from Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development) for the 4-year project "Struggles for Peace in a Changing World Order: Insights from the Thai-Cambodian border" (2026-2030). With Robin Biddulph (Gothenburg University) and Mun M

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/astrid-noren-nilsson-receives-formas-grant - 2026-10-07

We are incredibly proud to celebrate Gina, Chontida and Tabita, who on Friday 29 May were conferred their doctoral degrees at Lund University’s annual ceremony in Lund Cathedral. This long-standing academic tradition marks the occasion when new doctors receive their doctoral insignia, including the hat or laurel wreath, in recognition of their achievements. The ceremony is known as promotion in Sw

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/celebrating-our-three-new-doctors - 2026-10-07

In this article in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, co-written by Marina Svensson and Martin Lavicka, the background to and implications of China’s 2024 Patriotic Education Law (PEL) is examined. The article argues that the PEL exemplifies the CCP’s strategy of legitimizing authoritarian governance through law while tightening ideological control over youth, religious institutions, families,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-access-article-patriotic-education-china - 2026-10-07

SWEAH's spring course "Theories of Ageing" on theories, ageing and health, is coming to an end. This week, about 20 PhD students will meet in Lund for a two-day workshop on the subject. Just defining who is "older" leads to interesting discussions. According to one of today's lecturers, gerontology professor Boo Johansson from the partner University of Gothenburg, it is social constructions that h

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/they-delve-theories-ageing - 2026-10-07

SWEAH alumna Anna Nivestam, at the partner university Kristianstad University, is currently publishing a new scientific article on how well Nordic research focuses on the concept of health promotion and on the participation of older adults. Life expectancy is increasing in all the Nordic countries, and health-promoting research is crucial to meet both opportunities and challenges as society has an

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/much-health-promoting-research-sweden-older-adults-are-rarely-involved - 2026-10-07

SWEAH PhD student Annicka Appelberg, Kristianstad University, attended the 7th World Parkinson Congress, 24–27 May, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Approximately 4 000 participants from 40 countries attended the congress. The congress had a grant that PhD students could apply for, which she received. That covered the registration fee and four hotel nights.On the first day, Annicka Appelberg led a sessio

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/spreading-her-knowledge-internationally-about-parkinsons-care - 2026-10-07

When dementia takes memory, it does not take identity. SWEAH PhD student Judit Staller, Mid Sweden University, reveals in her first publication how you can reach someone living with dementia. Imagine sitting in a room you don’t recognise, in a body you no longer quite trust, asking for a husband who left this morning – except it wasn’t this morning. It was years ago. And he isn’t coming back.This

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-research-suggests-validating-identity-dementia-care - 2026-10-07

SWEAH PhD student Juliet Jacobsen and her supervisor Jenny Klintman, Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, have followed how patients with advanced cancer seek care during their last years of life. By studying their care patterns, the research team has developed a measurement method that relates healthcare needs to the changing value of time for patients at the end of life. The less time they ha

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/important-end-time-life - 2026-10-07

In a few weeks there is a very good chance to follow the research around Sweden and within SWEAH, when 25 PhD students from the graduate school present their projects at the 23rd IAGG World Conference in Amsterdam, July 5-9. – I will be presenting a study that explores clinical clusters in an inpatient geriatric Swedish population based on diagnoses and other health variables. The research is impo

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/swedish-doctoral-research-goes-international - 2026-10-07

Getting a dementia diagnosis in the middle of working life changes life fundamentally. New research from SWEAH's partner university, Jönköping University, shows that younger people with dementia and their partners often receive insufficient support, which can lead to financial problems, poorer quality of life and increased strain in the relationship. – When a partner in a relationship is diagnosed

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/lack-support-younger-people-dementia - 2026-10-07

Registration for SWEAH's research conference in the autumn opens tomorrow. Researchers and stakeholders in the field of ageing and health will gather and on stage, as a keynote speaker on the second day of the conference, will be health economist Linus Jönsson, Karolinska Institutet. With the lecture "From Research to Real-World Impact: Advancing Dementia Prevention to Meet Societal Needs", Profes

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/health-economist-implementation-least-difficult-developing-new-treatments - 2026-10-07

The steering group for SWEAH's alumni network SAIN is developing a new strategic plan for the coming years. Today, the members of the network were invited to contribute with input on what they want SAIN to work with in the future. And what they themselves want to get out of the network. – We also divided ourselves into smaller groups to discuss interdisciplinary research questions and possible res

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/new-ideas-about-future-research-ageing-and-health - 2026-10-07

Anyone who develops age-friendly environments must listen to what older adults themselves perceive as important. This is what SWEAH alumnus Anna Nivestam, Kristianstad University, writes in a new guiding report. – Older adults need to be involved in the work of creating age-friendly environments. But there is often a lack of support for how decision-makers can concretely involve older adults in th

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/how-older-adults-thoughts-about-environments-should-be-taken-account - 2026-10-07