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.
Over the course of a six-week online part and a five-day in-person workshop, students and professors from the universities of Bologna, Stockholm, and Oslo engage in a multicultural dialogue.
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”
Focusing on characters from popular media associated with Japan, this workshop seeks to interrelate the two academic domains of copyright law and humanities-based character research.
Focusing on characters from popular media associated with Japan, this workshop seeks to interrelate the two academic domains of copyright law and humanities-based character research.