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Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier (Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies) fokuserar på tvärvetenskaplig utbildning och forskning kring samtida öst- och sydöstasien och ligger organisatoriskt under historiska institutionen vid de humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna.Centrum har för närvarande en personal på tolv personer, inklusive forskare och administrativ personal och leds av en
https://www.ace.lu.se/about-centre/om-oss - 2026-05-13
We offer several interesting stand-alone courses on contemporary East and Southeast Asia. We have courses on both bachelor and master level. Click the images below for more info. When to apply For the fall semester of 2026Application period: 16 March - 15 April 2026 Bachelor level online courses Master level campus courses Questions? If you have any questions, please contact:Nina BrandInternation
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses - 2026-05-13
Photo Exhibition 4 - 15 February 2019 The Chinese New Year celebrates the beginning of the new year according to the lunar calendar. It is a time to return to one's hometown, reunite with family, honour ancestors and worship deities. Many traditional rituals are still practiced at the same time as new modern ways influence how one celebrate and share this event. To send well-wishes via social medi
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/chinese-new-year-through-photo-app - 2026-05-13
The board's task is to promote the strategic work at the Centre and stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration across the faculties.Members of the Board (in alphabetical order):Tobias Axelsson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economic History, Lund UniversityStefan Brehm, Director at the Centre and Chair of the BoardLisa Eklund, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Lund UniversityEva Hansso
https://www.ace.lu.se/about-centre/strategic-board - 2026-05-13
- From the Pacific War to the Rise of China Study international issues in East Asia! The course focuses on contemporary international relations in East Asia, but from a historically informed perspective. For example, we consider issues such as the Korean nuclear crisis, while remembering the Korean War and Japan's colonial rule over the peninsula, and China's rise, but in the context of its long a
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosb11-international-relations-east-asia - 2026-05-13
The course consists of an internship aimed to prepare you for a future working life. You are responsible for finding a suitable internship place that meets the course requirements. You will have the opportunity to relate your academic skills to professional assignments and establish contacts in working life. The internship is located at a workplace in Sweden or abroad with a clear connection to th
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosm50-qualified-internship-asian-studies - 2026-05-13
The aim of the course is to enable students to critically analyse the problems and future prospects of human rights work in East and South-East Asia. Focus is placed on the cultural, social, economic and political factors that prevent or promote the protection for human rights in different societies in East and South-East Asia. Differences and similarities with regard to problems and policies conc
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosm33-human-rights-east-and-south-east-asia - 2026-05-13
Have you ever wondered why economic differences in Asia are so striking? Why is extreme poverty next to immense wealth? Why does subsistence farming persist in the shadows of hyper modern city skylines? In this course you may find some answers. You will learn how supply chains transform the global economy and shape the landscape of economic development. We will apply spatial concepts and tools in
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosm32-east-and-south-east-asias-role-global-economy - 2026-05-13
East and Southeast Asia have the largest Internet population in the world in absolute numbers. It is also at the forefront of digital developments in many fields, including entertainment, e-commerce, artificial intelligence and big data. The region encompasses a diverse digital landscape that reflects divergent histories, cultures, and socioeconomic and political realities. In this course, we stud
The aim of the course is to enable students to pose questions and design studies of social (in)justice and social (in)equality in East and South-East Asia that are linked to current theoretical discussions. Contemporary theories have tended to go beyond normative (western) definitions in favour of formulating justice and equality as a substantial result of social relations and in relation to globa
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosm36-social-justice-and-equality-east-and-south-east-asia - 2026-05-13
In this course we offer an interdisciplinary study of key theories of socioeconomic development in present-day East and South-East Asia. Since the middle of the twentieth century, Asian countries have been at the forefront of developmental revolutions and the site of developmental ‘miracles’, making the region a perfect lens for analysing and understanding the emergence of our current global devel
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/stand-alone-courses/cosm34-development-theories-and-issues-east-and-south-east-asia - 2026-05-13
Genom dina studier om Öst- och Sydöstasien lär du dig att beskriva, förklara och förstå den sociala, politiska och ekonomiska utvecklingen i regionen och i enskilda länder. På våra enstaka kurser och på vårt masters program möter du lärare som är engagerade i både undervisning och forskning och har bred erfarenhet från regionen. Vi fokuserar på olika länders utveckling men studerar även regionens
https://www.ace.lu.se/masters-programme-asian-studies/studera-asien-i-lund - 2026-05-13
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 8 April - 29 May 2019 The photos on display in the exhibition were selected form nearly 100 submissions in our contest "Visualizing Asian Cities". This photo contest challenged students to investigate Asian cities and come up with images that reveal new and interesting aspects of cities that differ from traditional images in the media and conventional tourist images. The id
https://www.ace.lu.se/activities/selected-past-events/visualizing-asian-cities - 2026-05-13
selected photographs What maybe comes to most people’s minds are Asian cities as a mix of traditional and modern (a contested dichotomy to be true) in terms of both the built environment and practices/urban life (for example in terms of religious practices). The photographs also show this. But history and heritage are complex, they include domestic/local as well as colonial history, and heritage n
https://www.ace.lu.se/traditions-and-heritage - 2026-05-13
selected photographs Dreams and creativity was the topic for the third category. Dreams can be individual and collective and shared by a whole generation, and they are often shaped by socio-economic realities of different times and places. Cities can be sites of dreams for migrants who move there but their dreams might not be fulfilled. Cities are also often seen as creative places as they attract
https://www.ace.lu.se/dreams-and-creativity - 2026-05-13
selected photographs Hidden places tell us something about the diversity of city life, how places, and people, may have been forgotten or marginalised in the urbanisation process, or how places can be appropriated for diverse activities and uses outside of the sight and control of the authorities. These places may also reveal the other sides of busy tourist sites. But hidden places can also refer
https://www.ace.lu.se/hidden-places - 2026-05-13
Subject librarian for Asian Studies Mia NilssonTelephone: + 46 46 222 03 58E-mail: mia [dot] nilsson [at] htbibl [dot] lu [dot] seStaff web page at the Centre HT libraries Open to Lund University students and staff and the general public
https://www.ace.lu.se/contact-your-subject-librarian - 2026-05-13
In your studies of East and South-East Asia you will learn to describe, explain and understand the social, political and economic development in the region and in individual countries. In our stand-alone courses as well as in our master's programme you will meet teachers who are engaged in both teaching and research and have broad experience from the region.We focus on the development of different
https://www.ace.lu.se/education - 2026-05-13
During the fourth semester you have the possibility to travel to Asia to carry out fieldwork and collect material for your master's thesis. You can choose to do the fieldwork on your own or to be affiliated with one of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies’ academic partners in Asia, currently Fudan University, China, Waseda University, Japan, and Thammasat University, Thailand.If you d
https://www.ace.lu.se/education/about-programme/fieldwork-asia - 2026-05-13
