Published 18 December 2017 Grants awarded from the Swedish Research Council. Dr Astrid Norén Nilsson at the Centre has together with Professor Anders Uhlin received a grant from the Swedish Research Council. They will over the coming three years work on a project on civil society in Cambodia and Indonesia.Dr Darcy Pan from the department of anthropology at Stockholm University was also awarded a g

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Published 9 January 2018 Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has written a country review on Cambodia in a new book titled "Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia". The chapter examines competing understandings of Cambodian civil society through the prisms of civil society and the state; the role of the international donor community; and the re-emergence of historical civil society. In conclusion, it is

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Published 19 January 2018 Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored an article on the Chinese social credit system for The Conversation. The Chinese government’s ongoing attempts to create a social credit system aimed at rating the trustworthiness of people and companies is often depicted as something uniquely Chinese. In this article Stefa

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Published 22 January 2018 Photo by Nicholas Loubere Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a

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Published 2 March 2018 Ji Fangfang Associate professor Ji Fangfang from the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, is a visiting scholar at the Centre during March. Her research focuses on Internet publicness in China and media globalization. Her stay at the Centre is funded by the Birgit Rausing Language Programme.

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Published 5 March 2018 The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with an interest in East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the fall 2018. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize research seminars.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short project description

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Published 12 March 2018 John Hennessey and Professor Alexis Dudden John Hennessey who graduated from the Centre in 2011 successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Linné University, Växsjö on 9 March . The thesis studies Japanese colonial history and is entitled, Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868–1912.Professor Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, was the

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Published 3 May 2018 The latest issue of "Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights" has been published, with contributions from Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm. On 12 May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. Felt as far as Beijing, the tremors caused horrific damage: 69,229 people died and 17,923 went missing. Yet, the aftermath o

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Published 4 June 2018 Photo by Larissa Stünkel The Centre has received two grants that will strengthen its work on Korea during the coming academic year. Beginning in September and running through to March, the grant from the Academy of Korea Studies will fund eight guest lectures on different aspects of Korean society, such as politics, digital developments, popular culture and international rela

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Published 18 June 2018 See what our researcher Dr. Paul O’Shea has to say about the recent developments Two articles on this issue have recently been published, one on the Lund Univeristy website, you can find the article here (in Swedish) and one in the Sydsvenskan newspaper here (also in Swedish). For an English translation of the text in Sydsvenskan, please see here (PDF).For more information a

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Published 20 June 2018 Seo-Young Cho will be a visiting scholar at the Centre between 26 November and 20 December 2018. Seo-Young Cho is assistant professor of economics at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. Her research focuses on economic analysis of human trafficking, female migration, social capital, cyber activities, gender differences in education and behaviors, and genderbased viole

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Published 25 June 2018 Astrid Norén-Nilsson On 21 May, Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson presented on “Cambodia; Towards 2018 elections and beyond” at the London School of Economics and Political Science Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). The SEAF is an annual event organised by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), a cross-disciplinary, regionally-focused academic centre within the Institute of Global

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Published 27 June 2018 On 14-15 June, Marina Svensson attended a meeting of the European Alliance for Asian Studies in Turin. The focus was on collaboration and promoting Asian studies in Europe. At the next International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden on 15-19 July 2019 the Alliance will run some joint panels on the future of Asian studies as well as co-organise other events.The Alliance h

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Published 24 September 2018 On 17th of September Dr. Paul O'Shea participated in the 79th Stockholm Seminar 'Japan-Russia Relations: The Islands Dispute and Geopolitical Culture'. Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty to end World

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Published 15 October 2018 Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on Chinese migration and gold mining in the journal International Migration. This article examines irregular Southİ\South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the informal smallİ\

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Publicerad 28 september 2020 Influensavaccin skyddar diabetiker inte bara mot influensa utan också från att dö av hjärt-kärlsjukdom eller av andra orsaker. Det visar en stor dansk studie som publicerats i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Diabetes Care. I dessa Coronatider när alla hoppas och väntar på effektivt vaccin mot covid19-virus ska vi inte glömma de influensavacciner som varje år räddar många

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Publicerad 6 oktober 2020 Pressmeddelande från Örebro universitet. Sjukhusvård till följd av komplikationer orsakade av typ 2-diabetes kostade 2,5 miljarder kronor år 2016. Samtidigt var kostnaderna för sjukfrånvaron nästan dubbelt så höga. Det visar en ny studie från Örebro universitet och Institutet för hälso- och sjukvårdsekonomi i Lund. – Resultaten visar att hälso-och sjukvården måste fortsät

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Publicerad 21 december 2009 Isländska forskare har gjort ett överraskande fynd, en stark och vanlig riskvariant för typ 2 diabetes utövar bara sin effekt när den har ärvts av pappan. Samma variant skyddar om den kommer från mamman. Det isländska företaget deCODE, som i mer än tio år har samlat in DNA och väl dokumenterade släktträd på praktiskt taget hela den isländska befolkningen, står bakom upp

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Publicerad 7 januari 2010 Belägg för den starka roll genetiken spelar vid typ 1 diabetes kommer nu från en stor svensk undersökning. Barn vars föräldrar är födda utomlands och barn som adopterats av svenska föräldrar har mindre risk att insjukna i typ 1 diabetes än etniskt svenska barn. Ingen vet ännu varför barn drabbas av typ 1 diabetes. Den förhärskande uppfattningen är att arv- och miljöfaktor

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Publicerad 29 januari 2010 Leif Groop, professor i diabetes och endokrinologi vid institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper i Malmö, Lunds universitet, har utsetts till mottagare av Hilda och Alfred Eriksson pris för år 2010. Leif Groop får priset ”för banbrytande forskning rörande typ 2 diabetes”. som Vetenskapsakademins motivering lyder.- Ett hedersamt erkännande och det är alltid trevligt att få u

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