What’s Love Got to Do with It? Forced Marriages During the Khmer Rouge Regime

NIAS is delighted to invite to the next "Cambodia Seminar Series" online lecture organized in collaboration with the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) and the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) on the upcoming Cambodia National Remembrance Day. In this seminar, Theresa de Langis, Director of the Center of Southeast Asian Studies and Professor in Global Affairs and Humanities at the American University of Phnom Penh and Sotheary Yim, psychologist and dialogue facilitator using creative methodologies, will elaborate on their research on forced marriages in Cambodia. 

The presentation will provide an overview of the efforts to have forced marriage investigated as a crime on a national scale against both men and women as part of the prosecutorial strategy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The ECCC’s 2018 criminalization of the “regulation of marriage” is a case study in the dynamism of international criminal law as deeply embedded in historical processes.

Find more information on the event and register here.

Time and date: 14.30  - 15.30pm (CEST), Friday 20 May 2022
Organizer: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,  New York Southeast Asia Network, Center for Khmer Studies

'Seed the Untold Story' 

NIAS Postdoctoral Researcher Terese Gagnon will speak on a panel discussing the film 'Seed the Untold Story' by Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel after its screening in Cinemateket, Copenhagen. The event is organized by the Global Development Network at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute (Cinemateket).

'Seed the Untold Story' is a documentary that shows how 94 percent of our seed varieties in the world have disappeared in just a hundred years. The ten largest agrochemical companies in the world, including Syngenta, Bayer and Monsanto, control over two-thirds of the global seed market and reap huge profits. But diversity suffers. The film follows farmers and activists defending our approximately 12,000-year-old food heritage – and the food of the future. 
 

Find more information about the event and get your tickets here.

Tactical Choices of Moderate Violence and the Escalation of Nonviolent Movements in Hong Kong

NIAS Postdoctoral Researcher Myunghee Lee will hold a presentation on 'Tactical Choices of Moderate Violence and the Escalation of Nonviolent Movements in Hong Kong' at the Unknown Future Conference taking place in Copenhagen from May 23- 24. With her on the panel speak Dusica Ristivojevic from the University of Helsinki and Mai Carolin, from the University of Copenhagen. 

Find the detailed conference programme here.

China’s New Affective Era: Gender, Nation and Sacrifice in China’s Post-COVID-19 Governance

NIAS is delighted to invite you this hybrid lunch talk with Dr Yunyun Zhou, Senior Lecturer at University of Oslo, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. Yunyun will present her research on 'China's New Affective Era: Gender, Nation and Sacrifice in China's Post- COVID-19 Governance', which is partially based on her latest publication “Gendering National Sacrifices: The Making of New Heroines in China’s Counter-COVID-19 TV Series” in Communication, Culture & Critique with Dr Kailing Xie. You can read the abstract of the talk here.

Find more information and register here, in case you wish to join online. 
Please note, the event will take place both in person (CSS 4.2.49) and online. 

Time and date: 12.30  - 13.30 (CEST), Wednesday 25 May 2022
Organizer: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

 Australia- Thailand COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Comparative Perspective

The organizers of the TS4 Seminar Series, NIAS, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) and the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) are delighted to invite to this event with Dr Chavalin Svetanant (Macquarie University) as she takes a closer look at Australia and Thailand's respective COVID-19 responses.

Find more information and register here. 
Please note, the event takes place at 2am CEST. You can find, however, a recording uploaded afterwards on SSEAC's youtube channel. 

Time and date: 2.00  - 3.30 (CEST), Friday 10 June 2022
Organizer: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, New York Southeast Asia Network 

CfA: We're looking for a new student assistant 

NIAS (Nordic Institute for Asian Studies) is looking for a student worker to assist with NIAS’ activities, services and online library. NIAS main focus is to conduct research and dissemination with a focus on modern Asia.

The tasks include scheduling our podcasts, updating our websites, sending out e-newsletters, facilitating Zoom events, maintain our social media feeds, assisting at NIAS events and receiving guests and help maintain our electronic library resources. We are a small unit and may need help with various incidental administrative and practical tasks: no two days will be exactly the same. The workplace will be at the NIAS office, at University of Copenhagen, City Campus. 

Find more information on the call and apply here.
 

Deadline: 06 June 2022
Organizer: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

The Work of Gender off to print 

'The Work of Gender. Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan' by Gitte Marianne Hansen  and Fabio Gygi has gone into printing and we cannot wait for it to be ready for publishing.  

This engaging volume offers a new perspective on gender in Japan by focusing on the ways in which gender presentation is turned into a commodified experience. It highlights the deliberate work that goes into the creation of gendered forms of intimacy in a broad range of settings: from female fans of pornography, to cross-dressing escorts, and transgender people. It builds on earlier scholarly work, contributes new ethnographic research, and presents compelling studies, evocatively presented, to an undergraduate and postgraduate readership.

For more information about the book, visit our website & stay updated for news once it is out for sale. 

Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann with the Nordic Asia Podcast

New Review

'Thai Politics in Translation. Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra- constitution' edited by Michael K. Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand just received a review in the April Issue of Contemporary Southeast Asia. 

Kittisak Sujittarom, Lecturer in the Department of History at Chiang Mai University, writes: 

"The editors of this volume have provided a commendable service to the study and teaching of modern Thai politics by making texts that illuminate Thai conservative political thought accessible also to non-Thai speakers." 


Read the full review here 
& Find the book in our NIAS Press Webshop. 

Categories, Digital Reconfiguration and Mobility in China 

Co-organized by  the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, and Technologies in Practice group and IT University of Copenhagen this international conference  is a joint opening conference for the Network Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China (CatCh) and the Moving Data - Moving People (MDMP) project on mobility and China’s social credit system taking place on 18.05.2022 - 20.05.2022. 

The conference aims to provide an open interdisciplinary forum for discussing the potential of categorization and configuration as original and innovative approaches to study social life, relations, practices, and governance in China. Against a backdrop of increasing digitalization and strained relations of trust, how are technologies of categorization and configuration reproduced and transformed in social relationship and digital governance?  
 

Find more information and the detailed programme here.

Time and date: 10.00  - 18.00 (CEST), 18 - 20 May 2022
Organizer: University of Copenhagen, IT University of Copenhagen, Aalborg University

 Unknown Futures: A Seminar on Hong Kong

ThinkChina, Asian Dynamics Initiative, and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen invite to this two-day seminar on Hong Kong's Unknown Future. Where is Hong Kong heading? And how have the developments these past years affected the direction Hong Kong is taking? The seminar explores different aspects of contemporary Hong Kong society through the lens of cultural production, image politics, protest aesthetics, documentary filmmaking and social and political perspectives.

Find more information and the detailed programme here.

Time and date: 10.00  - 16.00 (CEST), 23 - 24 May 2022
Organizer: Think China, Asian Dynamics Initiative, Cross- Cultural and Regional Studies 

 Hong Kong's Struggle in Historical and Comparative Perspective

ThinkChina, Asian Dynamics Initiative, and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen invite to this public on-site lecture with  Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine talking on Hong Kong's Struggle in Historical and Comparative Perspective. 
 

Find more information and register for the event here.

Time and date: 10.30  - 11.30 (CEST), Tuesday 24 May 2022
Organizer: Think China, Asian Dynamics Initiative, Cross- Cultural and Regional Studies 

 Decolonizing the Historiography of China

The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo invites to this guest lecture with James A. Millward is Professor of Inter-societal History at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University examining the ways current historiography of China in Western languages as well as Chinese enshrines and reinforces a modern Han-centric narrative and even an apologia for PRC colonialism in Xinjiang and Tibet and aggression towards Taiwan

Find more information and register for the event here.

Time and date: 12.15  - 13.15 (CEST), Tuesday 24 May 2022
Organizer: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at University of Oslo

 Sri Lanka in Revolt

The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo invites to this Asianet focus lecture discussing the ongoing unrests in Sri Lanka.

Find more information and register for the event here.

Time and date: 16.30  - 18.00 (CEST), Tuesday 25 May 2022
Organizer: Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo 

 China-US nuclear rivalry and the discovery of China’s missile silos

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) invites to this public lecture on the recent China's nuclear missile silo fields discovery. Featuring one of the researchers behind the silo discovery, this seminar explores how Beijing’s unprecedented nuclear buildup will affect China-US rivalry and strategic stability.

Find more information and register for the event here.

Time and date: 14.30  - 16.00 (CEST), Thursday 02 June 2022
Organizer: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

 China-US nuclear rivalry and the discovery of China’s missile silos

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) invites to breakfast seminar with Xiangming Chen, a renowned scholar on BRI-related issues, to share insights from his ongoing research and to discuss with scholars from NUPI and UiO. Chen is a Professor and the Director of Urban Studies, Trinity College (USA), and Guest Professor, Fudan University (China).

Find more information and register for the event here.

Time and date: 09.00  - 11.30 (CEST), Friday 10 June 2022
Organizer: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

 CfA:  Postdoctoral Position

The Hans Christian Andersen Center, Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark, invites applications for a 2-year postdoctoral position to be filled by 1 January 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. The postdoc position is affiliated with the research project “Hans Christian Andersen as World Literature”, which is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and led by Associate Professor Torsten Bøgh Thomsen at the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. The project’s researchers investigate the global dissemination of the Hans Christian Andersen’s works using perspectives related to world literature and critical heritage studies.

Find more information on the call here.

Deadline: 01 June 2022
Organizer: University of Southern Denmark

 CfA:  Research Fellow at University of Tartu

The University of Tartu Asia Centre is searching for two research fellows for projects starting on the 1st of September. The projects focus on the impact of the Ukrainian war on the geopolitical developments in South-East Asia and the political, economic, and cultural role of Asia in Northern and Eastern Europe. The people will join a multi-interdisciplinary research group informing.  

Find more information on the call here.

Deadline: 02 June 2022
Organizer: University of Tartu

 CfP:  MA and PhD Scholars Workshop on the Infrastructure of Global Urbanism

Are you writing your MA or Ph.D. thesis on Chinese cities, global urban studies, infrastructure, Special economic zone, urbanism, or the Belt and Road initiative? Chen Xiangming, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College, is visiting the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, the University of Oslo, on the 9^th of June. He has offered to give feedback on student manuscripts. 

Applicants should submit a current CV and an abstract (300 words maximum, its full paper is ready for submission) by 20 May 2022. Successful applicants will be notified by the middle of May and submit the draft of the manuscript (8000 words maximum) by 30 May. These drafts will be circulated to fellow participants and discussants in advance. Indeed, we expect that presenters will be open to feedback from fellow participants.

Find more information on the call here.

Deadline: 30 May 2022
Organizer: University of Oslo

 CfP:  European China Law Studies Association Annual Conference 2022

The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Study Hub for International Economic Law and Development (SHIELD) and Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen invite for the submissions of abstracts/panels or proposals for the 16th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association (ECLS). The conference will be held in Copenhagen from September 21- 23 2022. 
 

Find more information on the call here.

Deadline: 10 June 2022
Organizer: Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen