The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

Join us for the re-launch of the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies.

Background

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies (CJAS) has returned to the University of Copenhagen, where it first started more than 30 years ago. In 2003, the CJAS moved to the Asia Research Centre at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), together with its founding editor and professor of China Studies, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard.

A number of circumstances have paved the way for the return of the CJAS to the University of Copenhagen, and – as of now – the journal is based at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. The scope of the new CJAS is broad and interdisciplinary, focusing on culture and society in contemporary Asia as well as Asia in modern history, promoting an interface between humanities and social sciences in the study of Asia.

The CJAS provides a platform for the global intellectual community to discuss and analyse modern Asia in comparative cross-cultural perspectives, where Asian connections occupy a key but not an exclusive role. 

The geographical scope of ‘Asia’ covers overlapping cultural-economic regions of East Asia, Inner Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, and South-East Asia, and includes Asian cultural spheres globally.

On 10 March, we will celebrate the re-launch of the CJAS with an event featuring presentations by researchers from UCPH, CBS and beyond.

Do join us! Please sign up here.

For additional information, please, contact Dr. Vera Skvirskaja at bdq883@hum.ku.dk.

Programme

10.15 – 10.30
Welcome – Ingolf Thuesen, Head of Department, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH

Welcome – Vera Skvirskaja, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH

10.30 – 10.50
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Dept. of International Economics, Government and Business, CBS
Homecoming

10.50 – 11.10
Magnus Marsden, Dept. of Anthropology, Sussex Asia Centre, University of Sussex
Geopolitics as Lived: Inter-Asian Corridors of Connectivity

11.10 – 11.30
Ravinder Kaur, South Asian Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH
The Market Hunters: Corporate Masculinity and the Art of Opening the Economy

11.30 – 11.50
Oscar Salemink, Dept. of Anthropology, UCPH
Where are area studies?

11.50 – 12.10
Trine Brox, Modern Tibetan Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH
Understanding Asia through Buddhism, business and believers

12.10-13.00 – Lunch

13.00 – 13.20
Jørgen Delman, China Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH
China’s energy transition: Policy translating the Danish experience

13.20 – 13.40
Tine Walravens, Dept. of International Economics, Government and Business, CBS
Radiated food and risk communication in Post-Fukushima Japan

13.40 – 14.00
Marie Højlund Roesgaard, Japan Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH
Japanese education – from politics to practices 

14.00 – 14.20
Michael Jakobsen, Dept. of International Economics, Government and Business, CBS
International Business and Asian Studies. Beyond Generic Studies

14.20 – 14.40 – Coffee break

14.40 – 15.00  
Bo Ærenlund Sørensen, China Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH
Liu Cixin: Communication and surveillance in modern Chinese science fiction

15.00 – 15.20
Tang Man, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies/Free University, Berlin
Cultural and Geographical imaginaries connecting Central Asia and China's Muslims

15.20 – 16.00  Summing up, practical questions and socialising