The famous last line in Shelley's poem Ode to the West Wind reads “If winter comes, can spring be far behind.” It can be read figuratively as a mantra to remind and motivate us not to lose hope. It seems like spring is still far away (it is pretty cold yet), and maybe it seems even further away this year due to geopolitical challenges and wars. It is not easy to be optimistic and hopeful but that is what we need to try to be. It is also important to remind ourselves that universities are spaces for critical, constructive, collaborative and compassionate thinking about complex and difficult issues in the world. I hope you find the Centre to be such a space!
For researchers at Lund University we have an informal mingle and fika on 9 April (please e-mail Marina by 1 April if you want to come). Those who are PhD students might be interested in a summer school on China and global extractivism(deadline 14 March).
For those interested to learn more about various topics in Asia, check out the Nordic Asia Podcast series!
Please stay tuned for more interesting events this semester!
Hopeful spring greetings! Marina
The Perspective Asia Lecture Series - Spring 2025
Welcome to the Perspective Asia Lecture Series, a platform for scholars and experts from various fields to share their critical insights on the issues, emerging trends, and historical interconnections in the dynamic East and Southeast Asian region.
Upcoming events will explore micro-level processes within broader changes, featuring lectures on everyday encounters with American and Japanese militarism in Okinawa, the livelihood strategies of small businesses in urban Seoul, and the geopolitical dimensions of RMB internationalization.
The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the following academic partners:
-Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia) -Asian studies, University of Helsinki (Finland) -Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) -Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (Sweden) -Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku (Finland) -Norwegian Network for Asian Studies
Global China Summer School 2025: China in Circuits of Global Extractivism
The 2025 Global China Summer School, organised by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Global China Lab, and hosted by the Centre, seeks to explore the enduring historical legacies and contemporary implications of Chinese entanglements in processes and patterns of global extractivism.
The Summer School will bring together leading scholars on the study of Global China along with graduate students conducting research on Chinese globalisation. It will provide a space to take stock of the state of the field of Global China Studies and jointly identify productive avenues for future research.
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