All episodes
Partners in Need, Partners Indeed?
India, China, and Climate Change Governance: Leadership and Responsibility in the Asian Global South with Amit Ranjan and Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska (Routledge, 2026)
Museums in Digital Age
China Office of Finnish Industries
The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research: A Discussion with Borayin Larios
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
Media, Power, and the Gaza Narrative
Beyond Minorities: Power, Identity, and Conflict in the Middle East
Through the Lens of Taiwan: Film, History, and Identity
The Shawshank Redemption in China: An Interview with Matti Lehtonen
The Gen Z Revolution in Bangladesh and Its Fallout
Gods and the State: Environmental Change in the Blang Mountains, China
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai
Good and Bad Palm Oil: Food Security, Paradigm Shift and Stakeholder Negotiations in Indonesia and the EU
Competing Visions for International Order
China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation
Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan
Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond
Tourism and a Kyoto in Flux: A Conversation with Dr. Chiara Rita Napolitano
Machiya, Seikatsu Bunka, and Changing Domestic Culture in the Japanese Urban Environment
Strings of Identity: The Horse-Head Fiddle and Mongolian Identity in China (with Ying Song)
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
Hindutva and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India
Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard
Gen Z Uprising: Youth, Protest and Political Change in Nepal
Localisation of Islamic Arts in Malaysia
Chile’s Growing Interests in China
Iban Heritage and Culture in Malaysia
Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines
Kampung Activism in Indonesia
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan
Malaysian-Nordic Relations
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre Kashmir Crisis: The India-Pakistan Blame Game?
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre China's Psychological Power
Lines of Control: India’s Foreign Policy and China
Political Mythmaking in Nepal
Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises
Queering the Asian Diaspora
India in the Global Attention Economy
Social Death by Debt: China's Lending Boom Reshapes Lives
Nordic Style on Chinese Social Media: Misinformation, Consumerism, and Digital Discourse
Finlandization to ‘Finland Boom‘ in Japan: Finland’s Public Diplomacy in Japan
India’s Land Mafia: A Discussion with Chiara Arnavas
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand
Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class
Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History
Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
The Relations of Estonia and Japan from the 19th Century to the early-21st Century
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Sino-Pacific Relations: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024)
Asian Soft Power in Estonia: A Discussion with Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
South Korea after the 2024 Parliamentary Elections
India Votes 2024
Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
India’s Waste Problem: A Discussion with Pamela Das
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Who owns Khadi?
Risks of US-China Geoeconomic Rivalry
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
Humanitarian Issues of Immigration in Japan: From Historical Background to Current Policies
Life after NIAS: A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Sauna Culture in Japan
Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
India, Asia, and the Global South
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Digital Repression in Thailand
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?