Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, for a talk by Dr. Lian Kwen Fee, on “The Political Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia/Singapore: Career of a Concept.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Dr. Rui Oliveira Lopes of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) sat down for a conversation at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) about two recent talks that he gave: one on Asia in European visual culture and another on mosque architecture in Brunei.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwU_blAruhE
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 23 October 2019, for a talk by Dr. Paul Carnegie, on “Rethinking Human Security in Southeast Asia.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 16 October 2019, for a talk by Dr. Stephen C. Druce of the Academy of Brunei Studies on “Collapsing the Mandala: Empirical Data from South Sulawesi versus Theoretical Models.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam delivered an address in a keynote forum at the International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICOSSH); Integrating the Culture and Civilization of the Nusantara, organised by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) at the Parkcity Everly Hotel, Bintulu, Sarawak, 8-9 October 2019.Dr. King’s presentation was entitled ‘From the “Sociology of the Social” to the “Sociology of the Cultural” : East-West Parallels and the Southeast Asian Context’.The forum comprised Professor King, and Distinguished Professor Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), who was awarded in…
Dr. F. Merlin Franco, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, speaks in this interview about Hornbills in Brunei and his recent research project to assess the current state of traditional ecological knowledge about hornbills among the Iban community in Brunei. The outcome of that research project can be found here: Franco, F.M. and Minggu, M.J. (2019). When the seeds sprout, the hornbills hatch: understanding the traditional ecological knowledge of the Ibans of Brunei Darussalam on hornbills. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15: 46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-019-0325-0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55aAhiXMIU&t=1s
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 09 October 2019, for a talk by Dr. Johannes L. Kurz on “2,000 Years of Brunei-China Relations: Reviewing Chinese Publications Since 1984.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of IAS Merlin Franco was featured in the Brunei News in an article about Dr. Merlin's recent research on hornbills in Brunei. Please click here to view the article in the Brunei News.
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 02 October 2019, for a talk by Professor Victor T. King on “Revisiting Social Organization and Ethnic Identities in Borneo.”For more information, please see the flyer below.