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NATIONALIST MONKS PROVIDE SPIRITUAL SUPPORT TO MYANMAR’S BRUTAL GENERALS

Myanmar’s military receives arms and aircrafts from Russia and Belarus used
against the widespread civilian resistance after the coup. At the same time
nationalist monks provide spiritual support to the generals, and Buddhism played
a crucial role in disrupting the ousted civilian government. The following is a
brief analysis of how Buddhism functions in Myanmar’s politics.

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NIAS IS LOOKING FOR A NEW STUDENT ASSISTANT

Interesting and demanding student job on the CSS campus
NIAS – Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, a centre under the Department of
Political Science, 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.

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GENERATION ASIA CONFERENCE 2022

About the Conference





Conference: Generation Asia – 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference





Date: 22-26 August 2022





Venue: University of Iceland





How is generational change transforming society, culture and politics across
Asia? Does a creative, iconoclastic Generation Z pose a major challenge to
traditional hierarchies and values? What is the impact of demographic change in
countries with a rapidly aging population? Is there something we can learn from
Asian traditions of intergenerational exchange?
These and many other intriguing questions arise from the theme of the 2022 NNC
conference.



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NATIONALIST MONKS PROVIDE SPIRITUAL SUPPORT TO MYANMAR’S BRUTAL GENERALS

Myanmar’s military receives arms and aircrafts from Russia and Belarus used
against the widespread civilian resistance after the coup. At the same time
nationalist monks provide spiritual support to the generals, and Buddhism played
a crucial role in disrupting the ousted civilian government. The following is a
brief analysis of how Buddhism functions in Myanmar’s politics.

Read more


NIAS IS LOOKING FOR A NEW STUDENT ASSISTANT

Interesting and demanding student job on the CSS campus
NIAS – Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, a centre under the Department of
Political Science, 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.

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Jun
30


ONLINE WORKSHOP & YOUTH DIALOGUE “HOW TO DEAL WITH CHINA? EU- CHINA RELATIONS IN
THE LIGHT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE”

16:00 to 18:30
Online Event
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Jul
18


GENDER AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

Jul 18, 2022 - Aug 12, 2022
Summer programme 2022
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Jul
31


CFP: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAIWAN STUDIES TOPICAL SECTION “INDIGENOUS
LANGUAGE POLICIES IN TAIWAN AND BEYOND, GUEST-EDITED BY ELIZABETH ZEITOUN


Call for Papers
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Aug
22


GENERATION ASIA CONFERENCE 2022

Aug 22, 2022, 09:00 - Aug 26, 2022, 17:00
2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference
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NIAS IS LOOKING FOR A NEW STUDENT ASSISTANT

Interesting and demanding student job on the CSS campus
NIAS – Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, a centre under the Department of
Political Science, 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.

Read more


E-RESOURCE OF THE MONTH



KinoDen is a digital library service for e-book acquisition and offers more than
10.000 academic e-books in Japanese, in a wide variety of disciplines and from
various Japanese publishing houses. Full-text search is enabled.





We have so far purchased 18 books, including Genki 3rd edition and other
reference books for Japanese language learning. To see books purchased for NNC
access, please do a search and then take away the marking for  「未蔵書を含める」in the
search results list.



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NATIONALIST MONKS PROVIDE SPIRITUAL SUPPORT TO MYANMAR’S BRUTAL GENERALS

Myanmar’s military receives arms and aircrafts from Russia and Belarus used
against the widespread civilian resistance after the coup. At the same time
nationalist monks provide spiritual support to the generals, and Buddhism played
a crucial role in disrupting the ousted civilian government. The following is a
brief analysis of how Buddhism functions in Myanmar’s politics.

Read more


RECENT NORDIC ASIA PODCASTS

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20. Jun 2022 / 28 min


SPIRIT POSSESSION IN BUDDHIST SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLDS EVER MORE ENCHANTED

A conversation with Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A. Jackson. Hosted
by Terese Gagnon.

What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in
mainland Southeast Asia? How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cults
in the 21st century and what has led to the efflorescence of possession rituals
across Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in recent decades? Bénédicte Brac
de la Perrière and Peter A. Jackson joined Terese Gagnon […]

Go listen
17. Jun 2022 / 24 min


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS

A conversation with Jinghan Zeng. Hosted by Joanne Kuai.

What is artificial intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics? Why is the
Chinese Government labelling AI as a matter of security? How has AI been
empowering China’s authoritarian governance? Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China
and International Studies at Lancaster University, talks about his latest
book Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese Characteristics: National
Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance (Palgrave, 2022) […]

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A NORDIC HUB FOR ASIAN STUDIES

NIAS - the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies - is an academically independent
Nordic research and resource center, focusing on modern Asia from a
predominantly social sciences perspective. NIAS is an integrated part of the
University of Copenhagen with the status of a centre under the Department of
Political Science.
NNC- the Nordic NIAS Council is a body that actively works to support and
strengthen Asian studies in the Nordic region and presently consists of 23
Nordic universities and research institutions in all five Nordic countries. The
aims of the NNC are to further Nordic Asian studies by pooling resources and
establishing mutual cooperation in developing research, as well as the
organization of conferences, seminars and Asia-related educational programmes in
the Nordic region. In particular, it works to promote synergy between the
activities at the NNC member institutions and NIAS.



DENMARK

 * Aalborg University
 * Aarhus University
 * Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
 * University of Copenhagen 

FINLAND

 * University of Helsinki
 * Tampere University
 * University of Turku
 * Aalto University
 * FIIA – Finnish Institute of International Affairs

ICELAND

 * University of Iceland
 * University of Akureyri

NORWAY

 * University of Bergen 
 * University of Oslo
 * Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
 * Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
 * The Arctic University of Norway
 * NUPI – Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

SWEDEN

 * Göteborg University
 * Lund University
 * Stockholm University
 * Uppsala University 
 * FOI – Swedish Defense Research Agency


SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The AsiaPortal’s Special Collections is an assemblage of information on physical
or digital special collections at libraries in the Nordic Countries affiliated
with the NNC.Under each country, you can find a description of the collection
and, if available, direct links to various materials such as catalogs,
manuscripts, and image collections as well as contact information […]

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TAIWAN RESOURCE CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES (TRCCS)

On 16 may 2018 the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS) was
officially inaugurated at the TORS Center of Knowledge at the Southern Campus of
the University of Copenhagen. TRCCS is the result of a cooperation agreement
between the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) on the one hand and
Department of Cross-cultural and […]

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THE NORDIC ASIA PODCAST

The Nordic Asia Podcast is a podcast series in which experts share their
insights about timely topics within Asian Studies. The series is co-hosted by
the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and its partner institutions: the
Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the University of Turku, Asianettverket
at the University of Oslo and the Stockholm Centre for Global Asia at Stockholm
University.

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