Rethinking Community in Myanmar with Judith Beyer
A new podcast interview with Judith Beyer is out! NIAS Press author Judith Beyer joined Postdoctoral Researcher Mai Van Tran in a conversation on her latest book Rethinking Community in Myanmar. Judith and Van talk about the concept of “community”, how …
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Annuska Derks and Jean-François Rousseau with the Nordic Asia Podcast
Where do the spices we find in our kitchen cabinets come from? What can we learn from tracing spices and their commodities and how does their trade impact the livelihoods of ethnic minority farmers in the Sino- Vietnamese uplands? Annuska Derks and Jea …
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Vibeke Børdahl with the Nordic Asia Podcast
Our author Vibeke Børdahl joined Julia Heinle discussing her upcoming publications on Jin Ping Mei, a classic of Chinese literature. The late 16th-century novel has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form. Vibeke has t …
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Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann with the Nordic Asia Podcast
NIAS Press Authors Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann joined the Nordic Asia Podcast discussing their new book “Deities and Divas, Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond” (NIAS Press 2021). Listen to the interview here wherever you …
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Chris Chaplin’s book lauch and podcast episode
Previous Next Podcast episode with Chris Chaplin The Nordic Asia Podcast released an episode with Chris Chaplin. In it, Petra Desatova and author of ‘Salafism and the State’, discuss the importance of Islam to Indonesian’s identity, the difference be …
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Podcast: Everyday Justice in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed
We are thrilled to share the latest episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast, co-hosted by NIAS in Copenhagen and CEAS in Turku. In this episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast, Duncan McCargo has a conversation with Helene Maria Kyed, the editor of the upcoming …
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Migrant labour and care in times of COVID-19, an interview with Dr Megha Amrith
Dr Megha Amrith is the lead researcher of the ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ Research Group at Max Planck Institute, in Germany. She and her team focus on ageing, migration and translocal mobility in Asia, Africa and South America. This week, I had the …
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