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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Minyoung Kim, who will contribute to Korean Studies teaching and research at the Centre. NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Programme in Korean Studies) supports early-career Korea-focused scholars by providing opportunities to develop teaching experience and strengthen research networks across the Nordic region.Our first NEST Scholar has just arrived and

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/introducing-our-first-nest-scholar-dr-minyoung-kim - 2026-05-07

New article by Kimhean Hok in East Asia Forum The article assesses emerging state reforms and key development trends in Cambodia, examining how recent infrastructure and digital initiatives reflect shifting approaches to economic governance and state capacity, as well as the opportunities and constraints these changes pose for the country’s longer-term development trajectory.Focusing on projects s

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodias-2025-and-beyond - 2026-05-07

New article by Elizabeth Rhoads, co-authored with Natalie Brinham, Kathy Win, and Nan Tinilar Win The article examines bordering via bureaucratic violence in Myanmar in relation to civil documentation. It categorizes bureaucratic encounters into five modalities of bureaucratic violence: deferred citizenship and higher evidentiary burdens; negative discretion in administrative decision-making; dena

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/modalities-bureaucratic-violence-bordering-civil-documentation-myanmar - 2026-05-07

On Tuesday, 27 January, Chontida Auikool successfully defended her dissertation "Aceh Chinese Negotiated Belonging: Memory, Place, and Identity" This dissertation focuses on Aceh Chinese’s lived experiences in Aceh, an Indonesian province marked by repeated violence and major social changes. These include the 1965–1966 anti-communist mass killings, the protracted conflict between the Free Aceh Mov

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chontida-auikool-has-received-her-doctorate-degree - 2026-05-07

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 sciences. Application deadline March 1, 2026. Announcement and applicationCaref

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-announces-1-fully-funded-phd-position-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2026-05-07

Panama's decision exemplifies increasing pressure exerted by the US on Latin American countries, and could spell trouble for Beijing's strategic interests in the region Last week, Tabita Rosendal spoke with France 24 about Panama’s decision to revoke CK Hutchison’s port concessions in Balboa and Cristobal. She explained that the move reflects growing pressure from the Trump administration and fits

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-france-24-about-panamas-decision-revoke-ck-hutchisons-port - 2026-05-07

Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez has recently published her article titled “Going Plant-Forward? Dietary Publics and Plant-Based Lifestyle Advocacy in Contemporary China” in Asian Studies Review. The article discusses China’s growing vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian ‘dietary publics’ across online and offline foodscapes. The study combines digital food studies with onsite fieldwork, and foregro

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-plant-forward-china - 2026-05-07

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024, utilized Buddhist diplomacy to ensure his political legitimacy and longevity - similarly to other Sri Lankan leaders of state Tabita Rosendal has published a new open‑access book chapter in Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, edited by Jack Meng‑Tat Chia, examining Ranil Wickremesinghe’s use of Buddhist diplomacy. Th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-open-access-book-chapter-buddhist-diplomacy-former-sri-lankan - 2026-05-07

Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads was recently interviewed in Nature about her work with Myanmar students and educational providers in displacement. The Pilot Capstone Project led by Lund University and housed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is an international consortium including University of Toronto, Northern Illinois University, University of Montana, and Palacky University

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-outreach-program-myanmar-students-impacted-conflict-and-displacement-highlighted-nature - 2026-05-07

Carin Alegre Castegren When entering the lower gallery (KHM1) of Malmö Art Academy to see the MFA exhibition entitled “Tremeluz” by Carin Maria Alegre Castegren, I was met by numerous paintings, which all seemed to be in a state of flux. They had a lightness to them, an openness as well as something allusive. When reading the exhibition text, it was clear that Castegren had been thinking of light

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-iii-carin-alegre-castegren-and-my-sjoberg-0 - 2026-05-07

Anne Sofie Djernis Anne Sofie Djernis´ MFA exhibition entitled “There is no emotional connection to numbers on a gravestone without a story being told” consisted of paintings, either on canvas or on newspaper. The paintings had an expanded colorscape and suggested different meditative states.   In the hand-out text Djernis mentioned how “In a meditative state, you observe” as a way she understood

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-iv-anne-sofie-djernis-and-cornelia-hermansson - 2026-05-07

Kristyan Nicholson When entering Kristyan Nicholson´s MFA exhibition TOMORROW HAS NEVER BEEN AS CLOSE AS IT IS RIGHT NOW, I was struck by how quiet the works were. There was an austere yet playful atmosphere, where I felt invited to investigate the potentiality myself, as Nicholson seemed to offer a series of wonderments to the viewer, through both sculpture and video using materials such as the s

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-v-kristyan-nicholson-and-anton-kai - 2026-05-07

Amanda Moberg In Amanda Moberg´s MFA exhibition ”The paths are a pattern only the weaves can see” I was meet by numerous works, all navigating around weaving as a focus point. The works seemed to be engaged with how the notion of weaving comes from language itself and how language can be shifted into new meanings, forms and questions. In French for example, text and textile share the same etymolog

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-vi-amanda-moberg-and-alice-ryne - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Background/punoɹɓəɹoℲLaeh Glenn (US)Viktor Kopp (SE)Ryan Mrozowski (US)B Ingrid Olson (US)Ivan Seal (UK)Evren Tekinoktay (DK)Patricia Treib (US)Sam Windett (UK)Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm starts the 2016 season with a group exhibition that explores the slippage between abstraction and figuration within a flat graphic

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/viktor-kopp-galerie-nordenhake - 2026-05-07

The anthology Konstuniversitetet - Högskolepedagogiska betraktelser (2024), published by Lund University, was recently published, offering different perspectives on artistic pedagogy. The book includes chapters by Gertrud Sandqvist from Malmö Art Academy, Jörgen Dahlqvist and Kajsa Ingemansson from Malmö Theatre Academy, and Magnus Lindén, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Anders Lorentzi and Eva Lund

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/gertrud-sandqvist-malmo-art-academy-published-new-book-artistic-pedagogy - 2026-05-07

Malmö Art Academy alumni Carin Alegre Castegren recieves Helle Stigung travel scholarship, to "a to a young promising practitioner of the art of painting". Alegre Castegren recieves the scholarship of 20.000 SEK, with the motivation: "Carin Castegren has developed a subtle painting that depends on attention. After the first stroke indicating method and material, all is vibrant confidence, a trust

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/carin-alegre-castegren-recieves-helle-stigung-travel-scholarship - 2026-05-07

Malmö Art Academy alumni Tringa Gashi with a new vernissage together with Spanish artist Mercedes Pimiento called BITTER PEACH NO STOP. The vernissage opens at 6pm on Friday 23 August, at Fuxia 2. Opening23 August 6PM, Industrigatan 17B, Malmö.Exhibition period23 August - 19 OctoberAbout the exhibitionGel nails. A row of watches locked in behind the glass of a counter. Nostrils searching for the r

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-tringa-gashi-vernissage-malmo - 2026-05-07

Malmö Art Academy alumna My Sjöberg has been honoured to receive the scholarship from the Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation.Sjöberg accepts the scholarship with the motivation:"For the ability to skilfully depict the fields of tension in ambivalent states. The changing intersection between past and future, reality and fantasy, the natural and the artificial, vibrates quietly in the works. With

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/my-sjoberg-receives-scholarship-anna-lisa-thomson-memorial-foundation - 2026-05-07

Jens Alfred Raahauge In Jens Alfred Raahauge´s MFA exhibition “Bordurien-Flintholm” the space was filled with paintings in vibrant colors. Moving through the space, I was meet by numerous works, all of them drawing me in with imagery which either surprised me or reminded me of memories of my own.      What has the process been like creating this MFA exhibition?     Looking back, pretty smooth actu

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-vii-jens-alfred-raahauge-and-ida-brockmann - 2026-05-07

Malmö Art Academy alumni Louise Hammer & Axel Burendahl with the new exhibition Doubles in Copenhagen. Opening September 20th. The works in Doubles each have their own connection to the act of recording, registering, and representing physical and fictional spaces, and how these spaces overlap and intertwine with one another. The exhibition contains moving images, sculptures, prints, paintings — an

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-louise-hammer-and-axel-burendahl-exhibition-copenhagen - 2026-05-07