The Nordic Asia Podcast

The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the following academic partners:-Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia)-Asian studies, University of Helsinki (Finland)-Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)-Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University (Sweden)-Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku (Finland)-Norwegian Network for Asian Studies

NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
Jun 4, 2025 – 38:29
Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
May 17, 2025 – 38:11
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Apr 18, 2025 – 31:27
Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises
Apr 11, 2025 – 26:11
Queering the Asian Diaspora
Apr 4, 2025 – 35:30
India in the Global Attention Economy
Mar 21, 2025 – 24:47
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Mar 7, 2025 – 15:39
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
Feb 22, 2025 – 19:17
Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan
Feb 8, 2025 – 23:24
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
Jan 24, 2025 – 22:38
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
Jan 12, 2025 – 42:28
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
Dec 27, 2024 – 29:49
Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand
Dec 20, 2024 – 17:16
Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class
Dec 13, 2024 – 26:36
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History
Dec 6, 2024 – 31:49
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Oct 25, 2024 – 17:31
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
Oct 11, 2024 – 32:58
Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
Sep 20, 2024 – 43:47
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century
Sep 8, 2024 – 38:19
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
Aug 19, 2024 – 18:23
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Aug 5, 2024 – 28:28
Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Jul 15, 2024 – 25:19
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jul 1, 2024 – 25:09
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
Jun 24, 2024 – 31:10
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
Jun 21, 2024 – 55:40
Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jun 7, 2024 – 40:28
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
May 24, 2024 – 26:41
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
May 10, 2024 – 23:23
India Votes 2024
Apr 26, 2024 – 33:18
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
Apr 12, 2024 – 22:27
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Mar 29, 2024 – 30:42
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Mar 15, 2024 – 34:24
Who owns Khadi?
Mar 1, 2024 – 31:09
Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Feb 16, 2024 – 18:33
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Feb 2, 2024 – 25:48
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
Jan 19, 2024 – 26:52
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Jan 5, 2024 – 30:35
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Dec 29, 2023 – 22:50
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Dec 22, 2023 – 27:23
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
Dec 15, 2023 – 32:18
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
Dec 8, 2023 – 27:28
Life after NIAS: A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Dec 1, 2023 – 53:53
Sauna Culture in Japan
Nov 17, 2023 – 26:56
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Nov 4, 2023 – 27:17
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
Oct 20, 2023 – 32:53
India, Asia, and the Global South
Oct 6, 2023 – 23:58
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Sep 29, 2023 – 22:39
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023 – 33:12
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
Sep 15, 2023 – 27:59
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 9, 2023 – 33:07