Published 12 June 2024 Posters of Kangdrun’s three short films Red Bucket and Key, Sophia and Chödrön’s TV Show, and Short Summer in Lhasa. Courtesy of the filmmaker. New research article by Jinyan Zeng. This study investigates the first films made by a female director, Kangdrun (T: Gangs sgron, གངས་སྒྲོན་, Gangzhen, 岗珍, b. 1995) belonging to the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class (ITC) generation. Fol

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualising-post-2000s-inland-tibet-class-generation-female-authorship-and-renegotiation-ethnicity - 2025-05-17

Published 25 June 2024 Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Photo by Sonata from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Paul O’Shea has published a peer-reviewed article in Social Science Japan Journal, analysing the role of US bases in Japan. Do they contribute to deterrence? The relocation of the controversial Marine base at Futenma on Okinawa to

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/do-us-bases-japan-deter-its-neighbours-role-us-marines-okinawa-extended-deterrence - 2025-05-17

Published 28 June 2024 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-edited a Palgrave Handbook on contemporary political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia. This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate in, set agendas for, make decisions in, a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/palgrave-handbook-political-norms-southeast-asia - 2025-05-17

Published 27 August 2024 Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of this new anthology. As a member of the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of the series as well as a contributor.The 15-chapter collection serves as a reflective, retrospective, and celebratory collaboration among teachers, former student

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-reimagining-species-relations-decade-studying-and-teaching-critical-animal-studies - 2025-05-17

Published 28 August 2024 Aerial view over Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com Launch of new European seminar series This new seminar series is a collaboration between the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Paris; Sciences Po, Paris; and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund. It is co-coordinated by Senior Lecturer Astrid Norén-Nilsso

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/current-dynamics-southeast-asia-new-perspectives-political-economy-and-comparative-politics - 2025-05-17

Published 4 September 2024 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 both countries since Burma’s partition from British India in 1937. The article argues that the specter of “potential foreigners” continues to play a role in how both countries determine citizenshi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-specter-potential-foreigners-revisiting-postcolonial-citizenship-regimes-myanmar-and - 2025-05-17

Published 8 October 2024 Paul O’Shea was interviewed by NBR Asia on the state of Japan’s foreign and security policy since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed Japan to implement new defense and national security policies. This includes increasing defense spending to 2% of the nation’s GDP by 2027—a historic 60% increase that will result in Japan havi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/qa-interview-national-bureau-asian-research-nbr-asia-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-05-17

Published 15 October 2024 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. Asia in Focus is an Open Access peer-reviewed journal published yearly online. It aims to support and give early career scholars affiliated or recently affiliated with a Nordic institution of h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-10-out-now - 2025-05-17

Published 25 October 2024 Who have both received RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) Sabbatical grants. Astrid has received funding for the project Cambodia's turn to hegemonic authoritarianismPaul has received funding for the project  An Unlikely Friendship: The Strategic and Normative Foundations of the US-Japan Alliance

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-astrid-and-paul - 2025-05-17

Published 4 November 2024 A Korean translation of the book Global China as Method (co-authored by Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini) has been published. Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/korean-translation-global-china-method - 2025-05-17

Published 13 November 2024 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 governance in South Korea. This article explores the development of international adoption policy in post-liberation South Korea, emphasizing the roles of American and Korean professional social worke

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-paradoxical-development-liberal-governance-international-adoption-policy-and - 2025-05-17

Published 15 November 2024 Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill. his chapter discusses how the official religious policies stipulated in the so-called Document 19 issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982 have transformed into the current religious laws and policies unde

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-05-17

Published 4 December 2024 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 Academic), edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Jinyan Zeng. Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere examines a variety of urgent feminist issues in 21st-century China, including the #MeTo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/release-anthology-feminist-activism-post-2010-sinosphere - 2025-05-17

By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 15 May 2023 ALL MY RELATIONS 2 is a 3-days transdisciplinary workshop that explores the ecological potential of performance, performativity and eco-pedagogy. Extended deadline to apply, 9 august. For the second time we now arrange this three-day workshop in Gylleboverket, a center for ecological art located in th

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/all-my-relations-2 - 2025-05-17

Published 31 August 2023 The new international Master’s programme in Performing Arts with a specialisation in Critical Practice and a social focus is a two-year, full-time study. The programme brings together innovative performing arts practices with critical reflection, and promotes expertise in initiating and building new alliances and arenas both within and outside existing structures. It aims

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/get-know-our-masters-programme-students - 2025-05-17

Published 8 September 2023 © Ulrik Trojaborg During the Gallery Weekend at the Inter Arts Center, the short documentary "Voinha's Backyard" will be premiered and Iury will talk about her artistic work with C. Grace Chang. "In December 2022 I went back to my maternal grandmother Voinha’s first address in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, the same place where we had last met in September 2018, when I rec

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/our-phd-student-iury-salustiano-trojaborg-participates-malmo-gallery-weekend-inter-arts-center - 2025-05-17

By amanda [dot] pettersson [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Amanda Pettersson) - published 21 September 2023 Welcome to an open lecture with Edit Kaldor, head of the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice. Edit will present her doctoral research project The Many and the Form. During the PhD she explored in various artistic contexts how lived knowledges can be articulated in and through live performanc

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/open-lecture-edit-kaldor-many-and-form - 2025-05-17

Published 4 October 2023 In this research event, professor Shannon Jackson and curator Milena Högsberg discuss curatorial and performance methods that create critical dialogues with a specific landscape. The discussion is facilitated by Gigi Argyropoulou, curator, writer, practitioner and post doc researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy. Welcome to Inter Arts Center, Friday 13 October 17.30-19.00. No

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/research-event-performance-and-politics-landscapes - 2025-05-17

Published 12 October 2023 "Transformative Encounters" is a podcast series dedicated to the exploration and unpacking of the concept "performative encounters" within the realm of contemporary performance, how it can be understood and what its affordances are. This series forms an integral part of the knowledge dissemination deriving from the artistic research project How Little is Enough? that is c

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/new-podcast-series-transformative-encounter - 2025-05-17

Published 6 November 2023 This public lecture and conversation explore the specificities and possibilities of using forensic approaches in contemporary live performance. It is the first in a series on Critical Performance Practices, and it’s organized by the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice at Malmö Theatre Academy. With Stefanos Levidis – Forensic Architecture and choreographer Arkadi Zaid

https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/forensic-approaches-live-performance - 2025-05-17