Welcome to the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies!
We conduct education and research in the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, as well as area studies within the two main areas: Asian Languages and Cultures and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Associate Professor Gunnar Jinmei Linder, researcher at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, has been awarded the Japanese decoration Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
A new interdisciplinary research project at Stockholm University, "Beyond Trauma: Futures of Memory and the Memory of Futures," investigates the relationship between memory and the future by integrating perspectives from multiple academic disciplines.
On November 13th the reading group of Speculative Fiction within the open seminar series of the Master's Programme in Environmental Humanities will have it's third meeting of fall semester 2025. It is lead by professor Andrew Jones, Department of Archaeology and Classical studies and Elisa Viteri Márquez, PhD student at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Isa Blumi, professor at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University, is together with Jaafar Alloul the guest editor for a special issue of the journal Middle East Critique. The issue focuses on the Gulf region and its global connections.
From 9 to 13 June 2025, students and researchers from five European universities will gather at Stockholm University for the fourth edition of the CIVIS-KF Graduate Summer School – a unique opportunity for academic exchange and networking in the field of Korean Studies.
Meet the author and intellectual Kwok-kan TAM from Hong Kong and his texts in conversation with students from Stockholm University, at the Bio Grand cinema.
Meet the author and intellectual Kwok-kan TAM from Hong Kong and his texts in conversation with students from Stockholm University, at the Bio Grand cinema.
Speaker: Dr Uganda Sze Pui KWAN, director of Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation programme and associate professor at the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Speaker: Dr Uganda Sze Pui KWAN, director of Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation programme and associate professor at the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
