Published 9 January 2025 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast. The episodes deal with academic freedom issues in Thailand, China and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a Tibetan filmmaker. The episodes were hosted and produced by several of the Centre's PhD students and our int

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/nordic-asia-podcasts - 2025-05-09

Published 15 March 2023 Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash We would like to invite you to the 17th annual conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS), which will be held at, the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, 15-16 June 2023. For our 2023 Stockholm conference we invite paper proposals on topics related to moder

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Published 27 March 2023 Application deadline: 15 May PhD students working on East and South-East Asia and enrolled in a Swedish university can now apply to become visiting PhD students in one of the partner institutes in the Graduate School in Asian Students during the fall of 2023. Application deadline: 15 May. See this page for more information as well as the application form.  PhD students work

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-phd-mobility-and-phd-retreat-are-now-open - 2025-05-09

Published 19 April 2023 Photo by Fikri Rasyid on Unsplash As a part of the Graduate School in Asian Studies, the PhD workshop on Indonesia aims to bring together the PhD students and scholars working on Indonesia across various disciplines for a meeting at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies The workshop is designed to facilitate discussion and cooperation among the participants, allo

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/phd-workshop-indonesia-17-18-october-2023 - 2025-05-09

Published 2 May 2023 Application deadline: 1 June This course explores ideologies as a ubiquitous phenomenon that shapes political, social, and cultural beliefs and practices. It examines how ideologies are formed, translated, and contested across historical periods and different societies in East and South-East Asia. Specific focus is given to nationalism and communism, including their emergence,

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/application-now-open-doctoral-course-ideologies-east-and-south-east-asia-legacies-and-contemporary - 2025-05-09

Published 10 May 2023 Photo by Ana Bórquez on Unsplash Application deadline: 6 October Researchers are increasingly needed in functions outside of academia, such as in think-tanks, government organizations, and international institutions. This requires PhD candidates to acquire the skill of making research accessible through policy reports and presentations to policymakers and other actors. In thi

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/application-now-open-workshop-preparing-career-outside-academia-policy-writing-and-research - 2025-05-09

Published 16 May 2023 European Association for Chinese Studies Summer School 2023: Situating Global China. 23rd–25th August 2023. Application deadline 16th June. The rapid globalisation of Chinese capital has great implications for political, societal, and economic systems around the world in the 21st century. Chinese investments, patterns of migration, and the integration of Chinese firms into fo

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/european-association-chinese-studies-summer-school-2023-call-applications - 2025-05-09

Published 25 September 2023 The Graduate School held its first annual retreat in Ystad 21-22 September. 13 PhD students from different disciplines and universities attended the retreat as well as 10 senior scholars. At the retreat issues and challenges regarding publications and academic careers were discussed, as well as the PhD students' research and other issues related to contemporary Asian st

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/graduate-school-retreat - 2025-05-09

Published 13 October 2023 Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash Application deadline: 13 November During the spring of 2024, two new PhD courses are planned, Asia in the Global Economy and The Craft of Writing and Publishing Peer Reviewed Journal Articles. Please check the links for more information and application forms if you are interested. Application deadline: 13 November. If you are int

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Published 15 December 2023 EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (EUVIP) is coordinated by Palacký University and also includes Lund University, the University of Helsinki and the Catholic University of Louvain. On 17-21 June EUVIP will organise a summer school in Olomouc on the topic Navigating Geostrategic Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific: Focus on Southeast Asia and MyanmarFor more information see

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/summer-school-news - 2025-05-09

Published 15 January 2024 The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-05-09

Published 19 January 2024 Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash The course that starts on 26 March and is mainly online apart from a writing retreat on 13-15 May will accept a few more students. If you are interested read the description and submit your application by 20 February.Find out more and apply here 

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/late-applications-open-course-craft-writing-and-publishing-peer-reviewed-journal-articles - 2025-05-09

Published 11 April 2025 The voices of the survivors make clear how incredibly fragile a democracy is; how quickly the moral foundations of a society can crumble and make the unthinkable possible,” says Erik Renström, Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. UNESCO has added the unique archive of 500 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors to the Memory of the World Register. It recognises the Rave

https://www.ub.lu.se/en/article/ravensbruck-archive-receives-memory-world-status - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 26 October 2017 Picture of the experiment, showing warmed plots melted out of the snow. Credit: Audrey Barker-Plotkin Dan Metcalfe has written a perspective piece in Science about a recently published paper. Dr Dan Metcalfe at the department has written a perspective piece in Science about a featured paper. The pa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/much-greater-portion-global-soil-carbon-store-could-potentially-be-vulnerable-decomposition-and - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 26 October 2017 A large "curtain" is being installed in order to reduce water input to parts of the forest. NBC News recently covered the ongoing activities associated with a VR-Uforsk funded project coordinated by Dr Dan Metcalfe. The project is installing a 30 metres high, 40 metres wide curtain in the middle of

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dan-metcalfe-coordinating-project-cloud-forest-peru - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 8 November 2017 Anders Lindroth Anders Lindroth featured in several media outlets. Anders Lindroth, professor emeritus at the department, was interviewed in several media outlets about new research showing that earlier springs increase the forests’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among other

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/earlier-spring-increases-forests-carbon-uptake - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 9 November 2017 The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn will host a session during which Margareta Johansson will present the impacts of thawing permafrost. Warming at almost twice the global average rate, the Arctic is a key region for understanding wider climate change impacts. Mitigation and adaptation strategi

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-will-give-talk-cop23 - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 14 December 2017 By Rosino ([1]) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Petter Pilesjö, Andras Persson, Ali Mansourian, and Micael Runnström have, together with researchers at the Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) in Mozambique, received a grant to develop educationa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-granted-sek-18-million-collaboration-project - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 December 2017 Forest fire. The carbon and nitrogen losses attributable to forest fires are much larger than was previously thought. This has now been shown by an extensive study that has compiled fire experiments from around the world. It is not just vegetation that is lost in forest fires. When a forest burns,

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/forest-fires-cause-unexpectedly-large-nutrient-losses - 2025-05-09

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 December 2017 Spruce forests. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen. Two new research projects will shortly begin at Lund University in Sweden to investigate how particle emissions from spruce forests affect the climate. The trees’ emissions of reactive hydrocarbons are thought to have a cooling effect on the climate. Almo

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/researchers-set-study-particle-emissions-coniferous-trees - 2025-05-09