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NIAS Staff
Director
Director of NIAS and senior researcher.
Research areas
Cultural sociology, Korea/East Asia, comparative politics, political culture and forms of governance.
Managing the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies and China-relevant issues
Administration
Project coordinator responsible for the NIAS SUPRA Programme and the NIAS Newsletter. In charge of conferences, guest lectures and seminars. Support and coordinate the work of the Nordic NIAS Council.
Project coordination/communication, the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies
Coordinates the Asian Dynamics Initiative - ADI.
Administration, NIAS SUPRA Programme, NIAS LINC
On maternity leave
Administration, NIAS SUPRA Programme, NIAS LINC
Administration, NIAS SUPRA Programme, NIAS LINC
The Fudan-European Centre for China Studies
Library & Information Centre
NIAS Digital Library as presented on the AsiaPortal, with online resources, Asia in Focus and Nordic webpublications on the AsiaPortal. Administrator/coordinator of NNC Library Group and the NNC cooperation on electronic resources as well as general NIAS library and NIAS web issues.
Oversee and coordinate the journal’s editorial activities.
NIAS Press
The student assistant position at NIAS Press entails providing support to the Press in all areas, including various marketing and editorial responsibilities.
Researchers
Lau Øfjord Blaxekjær is an engaged scholar leading NIAS’ programme on Asia-Arctic relations.
Encounters between Asia and the Nordic countries/Europe, gender, non-governmenta
Affiliated Researchers
Research areas: The rise of China in the 21st century, Chinese foreign and security policy, US foreign and securi
Cambodia, religion, healing, politics, conflict management, justice
Cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples, Socio-economic development, Human rights
Regional focus: Southeast Asia & West Africa.
India, South Asia, the Nordic countries, Europe
Guest Researchers
Japan, Japanese culture, literature, manga, anime, film, contemporary Japanese society, Murakami Haruki, Miyazaki Hayao, gender, character construction theory.
Between Homogenization and Fragmentation: Textual Practices as Strategies of Integration and Identity Maintenance among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, China (20th‒21st centuries).
Modern Chinese design, especially the role of government policy in the development of Chinese design
International Relations, security, narrative, methodology, gender, transitional justice, Korea
Regional security in Southeast Asia, decision-making in ASEAN, conflict management by regional organizations.
Affiliated PhD Students
My PhD project focuses on trajectories of peasant resistance to land acquisitions in north-east Cambodia.
At the moment his main focus is collective action theories; questioning how and why people cooperate and govern the commons. Thus he takes great interest in Danish cooperatives as well.
Affiliated Students
I'm currently writing my master thesis on the Qing Embassy in the US from 1880-1902.
Sino-Danish municipal corporation over climate projects - the case of Haiyan and Sønderborg