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.
On December 2 Andreas Bengtsson succesfully defended his dissertation "The Effects of Extramural Language: Relationships between engagement in Japanese language activities and general Japanese language proficiency".
Ewa Machotka receives funding from the Swedish Research Council for the research project “Can Art be National? Japonisme and Transculturation in Turn of the Century Sweden and Poland”