Published 4 November 2022 Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes how China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. The article recounts how, in recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has worked har

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Published 9 December 2022 Izzy (Elizabeth Rhoads) has received a Starting Grant within development research from the Swedish Research Council to lead a four-year collaborative research project on new forms of statelessness and displacement in Myanmar.

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Published 14 December 2022 Lotus Tower in Colombo. Photo by Kanishka Ranasinghe on Pexels.com New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet In this Danish article, Tabita Rosendal provides an overview of China's use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka, arguing that the CCP is utilizing Buddhist strategic narratives in order to pave the way for the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) smooth imple

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-buddhistiske-diplomati-i-sri-lanka - 2025-03-17

Published 15 December 2022 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the

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Published 9 January 2023 Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo by Justin Min, Unsplash.com Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime. Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship statu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-citizenship-myanmar-published - 2025-03-17

Published 16 January 2023 Workshop in Jakarta 13 December Two workshops were organized in Phnom Penh on 8 December and in Jakarta on 13 December to discuss research findings with civil society activists The workshops concluded the Swedish Research Council-funded project "New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia" which brought together researchers from Lund University, Universita

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Published 19 January 2023 Photo by Nhat Nguyen Hoang on Unsplash Benjamin Davies has co-authored a report on Sweden’s relationship with Taiwan. The report has been published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Swedish National China Centre. This report (in Swedish), co-written with Viking Bohman, describes the history of Taiwan and its foreign relations, with a focus on Swed

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/report-swedens-relationship-taiwan-released - 2025-03-17

Published 30 January 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social trends of the past year for East Asia Forum. The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect. The full article on the East Asia Forum website

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Published 20 February 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in  Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil so

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Published 3 April 2023 The Centre for East and Southeast Asian studies conducts research and teaching on Asia, and is looking for an intern. The successful candidate will contribute to both research and administration at the Centre and for the in-house journal, Asia in Focus. As part of their internship, the candidate will write an article, with feedback from researchers at the Centre, for submiss

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Published 31 August 2016 Meeting with the City of Malmö August 29 The announced meeting between Lund University and The city of Malmö took place in Lund as planned. The city of Malmö was represented by Mayor Jan-Inge Alfridh and Planning Director Christer Larsson. The meeting covered both the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts shared premises project, which apply to all institutions and entities,

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Published 1 March 2017 Mary Kelly has been appointed honorary doctor at the he Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University. Mary Kelly is a legendary artist, feminist and educator. Her Post-Partum Document (1973–79) is one of the first research-based works in an international context. It was formally ground-breaking, combining Lacanian structuralism with personal journal annotations and

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Published 26 February 2019 Photo: Hannes Schmid/Bea Borgers Over the past ten years, Swiss director Milo Rau has made a name for himself as one of the most influential and provocative theatre and film directors of our time. His work has been performed at several important international performing arts festivals such as the Theatertreffen in Berlin and the Festival d’Avignon. Rau has been awarded m

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/director-milo-rau-our-new-honorary-doctor - 2025-03-17

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 3 June 2020 Two internationally acclaimed artists, Yael Bartana and Bouchra Khalili, have been accepted to our postgraduate programme in fine art. Over two hundred people applied for the two postgraduate positions and the jury* conducted fifty interviews before choosing Yael Bartana and Bouchra Khalili. Yael Bartana is

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/internationally-well-known-artists-accepted-malmo-art-academy - 2025-03-17

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 30 September 2020 Esa Kirkkopelto Malmö Theatre Academy is forming a platform for their research with the name Öresund Collegium of Artistic Research. Professor Esa Kirkkopelto is the initiator who believes in building communities and that artistic research needs a critical mass. -The fundament of this is in the name i

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By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 30 September 2020 Lena Ekman Frisk There is every reason to keep an eye on Körcentrum Syd during "Future Week" 2020 as they let three different choires interpret the theme of the week: forces in motion. Körcentrum Syd participates for the second year in Future Week and the idea for this year's project has been to let t

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/korcentrum-syd-let-choires-interpret-theme-future-week-2020 - 2025-03-17

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 28 October 2020 Youngjae Lih The 34th Beckers Art Award - a grant of 200 000 SEK - will this year be awarded to Malmö-based artist Youngjae Lih, born in 1984 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 2016 and now works as a junior lecturer at the school. Congratulations to the Beckers Art Award, how

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By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 15 November 2020 Maj Hasager Maj Hasager is herself educated at Malmö Art Academy and has for the past nine years been teaching at the Master's Program. From January 1, she will take on the role as Rector. What are your feelings about your new assignment? -I feel great joy, recognition and trust being elected as Rector

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Published 19 November 2020 Heimo Zobernig Heimo Zobernig, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, has been appointed honorary doctor of Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts 2021. Since his debut in 1978, Heimo Zobernig has been one of Europe's and the world's most interesting and influential artists. In his field, he works with the equivalent of art to basic research, as he challenges our notions of

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/heimo-zobernig-appointed-honorary-doctor - 2025-03-17

By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 5 January 2021 History and European studies Docent Sanimir Resic, now on leave from the joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology in Lund, is taking over as Rector of Malmö Academy of Music after Ann-Charlotte Carlén. How does it feel? -Good, the new year has now officially started with my first day here at the Academ

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/sanimir-resic-new-rector-malmo-academy-music - 2025-03-17