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Youngeun Koo writes for The Conversation on Korean-Swedish international adoption history. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Swedish Adoption Commission have released their three-year investigations into the country’s international adoption practices, revealing severe human rights violations.Youngeun Koo uses the case of Tak-Un Kim—a four-year-old boy who went missing and was s

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/south-korea-finally-reckoning-its-decades-long-foreign-adoption-scandal - 2025-12-27

Julia Olsson has published an article in East Asia Forum on how Japan has been tackling its vacant housing problem through policy reforms and awareness campaigns, offering lessons for policymakers worldwide. Japan’s problem of vacant homes has drawn global media attention, but the situation may not be as dire as once predicted. While a 2015 report estimated a vacancy rate of 20.1 per cent by 2023,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-seeing-glass-half-full-amid-japans-vacant-housing-crisis - 2025-12-27

The latest issue of Asia in Focus - issue no. 11 has just been published. This issue features three thought-provoking articles on anti-cult measures, student protests, and shadow education. In this issue you will find three thought-provoking articles that in different ways relate to students and education: "Anti-Cult Measures at Universities in Japan: The Production of Knowledge on Religion as a C

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-11-out-now - 2025-12-27

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the Asia in Focus journal—published by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University—with a planned publication date in early summer 2026. Submission deadline: November 14th We are happy to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the Asia in Focus journal—published by the Centre for East and South-East As

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-asia-focus-issue-no-12 - 2025-12-27

Gina Song Lopez has published an article in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies examining the development of a ‘new’ vegan movement in Taiwan over the past decade. The article examines the emergence of a new cohort of animal rights and vegan advocacy actors in the wake of the socially receptive period that followed the Sunflower Movement. The paper introduces the activists and organization

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-vegan-taiwan-animal-liberation-and-climate-activism - 2025-12-27

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University is pleased to announce the launch of the NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies), generously supported by the Yang Won Sun Foundation. The NEST program is designed to help early-career scholars gain teaching experience and networking opportunities in an international academic environment. It aims to

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-applications-early-career-visiting-scholar-korean-studies - 2025-12-27

Apply by 30 November The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University is now accepting applications for Visiting PhD Research Fellowships for the spring 2026 term.Visiting PhD Research Fellows have the opportunity to join the Centre’s vibrant research community, access Lund University’s library resources, and present their work in seminars or lectures during their stay.Applicati

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-visiting-phd-research-fellows - 2025-12-27

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-edited a special focus section in the Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (SOJOURN) on the local impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Cambodia. The Special Focus section comes out of research for a Swedish Research Council-funded project on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the prospects for inclusive development in authoritarian settings,  a project of whic

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-special-focus-section-sojourn-local-impacts-covid-19-cambodia - 2025-12-27

Interested to learn more about AI and jounalism in China and  music and Mongolian identity?  Listen to two PhD projects hosted by Ning Ao, PhD candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies. In the first episode Ning Ao discusses  AI and journalism with Joanne Kuai, who recently finished her PhD at Karlstad University and now is a Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communica

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/two-new-episodes-nordic-asia-podcast - 2025-12-27

"The Debate" on "Cambodia-Thailand border conflict: Why the escalation despite Trump-brokered deal? In this episode of "The Debate", Astrid Norén-Nilsson was one of four guests invited to debate the return to fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, the root causes of the conflict, and the prospects for a cessation of hostilities. Watch the episode here on France24 (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/astrid-noren-nilsson-discusses-cambodia-thailand-border-conflict-france-24 - 2025-12-27

Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information please see here 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2025-12-27

Marina Svensson's article ‘Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo’ has just been published in a special issue on the Chinese internet in the journal China Information , July 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 168-188.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2025-12-27

CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has written an article for The Conversation about the recent developments in the negotiations between Turkey and PKK. AbstractNegotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in whi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/why-are-turkey-and-pkk-turning-peace-and-can-it-last - 2025-12-27

On 8 May, Rola El-Husseini Dean (Lund University) held a CMES Research Seminar on the rise and fall of Hezbollah. Rola El-Husseini Dean is an associate professor with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. She has previously held positions at Yale University, Texas A&M University, and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Her first book Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Leba

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-rise-and-fall-hezbollah - 2025-12-27

The CMES Yearbook 2024 is now available in both print and digital formats, offering a comprehensive overview of the Centre's work over the past year. The new official CMES Yearbook summarizes the Centre's activities during 2024, including:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and Arabic studies at CMESC

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-yearbook-2024 - 2025-12-27

Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg visited CMES for a public talk on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES hosted a public talk in Lund titled Whither Israel?, featuring Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg. The well-attended event took place in the Eden Auditorium at the Department of Political Science.Göran Rosenberg is the author of several acclaimed works, includi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-talk-goran-rosenberg-whither-israel - 2025-12-27

How do ideas about ’the nation’ take place locally? How are imaginaries of ’a people’ represented and challenged in urban memory and forgetting? With what effects on community formation, polarisation, and everyday urban life? Concluding the three-year CMES project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring the Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion, this symposium assembles scholars of multiple disc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upcoming-cmes-symposium-beyond-sacredsecular-cities-imagining-nation-urban-space - 2025-12-27

CMES researcher Altea Pericoli has published an article in The International Spectator about Gulf States’ foreign aid. Pericoli, A. (2025). Understanding Gulf States’ Foreign Aid: A Conceptual Framework. The International Spectator, 1–18. Read the article here.About Altea PericoliDr. Altea Pericoli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in geopolitics and regional cooperation at the Center for Advanced

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/understanding-gulf-states-foreign-aid-conceptual-framework - 2025-12-27

Lund University PhD student Anne Lene Stein will defend her thesis at the Department of Political Science. On 13 June, Anne Lene Stein will defend her PhD thesis titled Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel at the Department of Political Science, Lund University.The thesis explores how protests and performances in Palestine and Israel are use

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upcoming-phd-viva-agonism-against-odds-epistemic-disruptions-and-bodies-dissent-palestine-and-israel - 2025-12-27

CMES researcher Adam Almqvist has recently published about meaning-making and the politics of intergenerational injustice in Jordan. Almqvist, A. (2025) ”Meaning-Making and the Politics of Intergenerational Injustice in Jordan.” APSA-MENA Newsletter, 8 (1) Read the publication here.About Adam AlmqvistAdam Almqvist (Ph.D., University of Chicago 2023) is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/meaning-making-and-politics-intergenerational-injustice-jordan - 2025-12-27