2014 IAS Wednesday Seminars Seminar Series Home 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 22 October 2014 Understanding State Planned Cluster through the Lens of Location: A Comparative Study of Puspiptek Science Park – Indonesia and Cyberjaya Cluster – Malaysia Ramli Nordin & Farah Purwaningrum Institute of Asian Studies, UBD 15 October 2014 Defining Ethnic Boundaries: Comparing “Malayness” in Peninsula Malaysia to “Fijianness’ in Fiji and “Whiteness” in South Africa Kiran Sagoo East-West Center, Honolulu 8 October 2014 Social Stratification Research in Vietnam Bui The Cuong Southern Institute of Social Sciences 1 October 2014 “Nusantara”: The Governance of South China Sea Hans-Dieter Evers Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 30 August 2014 Religious Conversions of Filipino Workers in the Arab Gulf Region and the Transformation of Intimate Spaces Naomi Hosoda Kagawa University 10 September 2014 Social Transformation and Gender in Sarawak Hew Ching Sim Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 26 March 2014 Brunei Malay Traditional Healing Knowledge Virginie Roseberg University of Western Australia) 17 March 2014 Kanching Manis: Culture and Diabetes in Malay Society Saiful Islam & A.H.M. Zehadul Karim UBD & International Islamic University 12 March 2014 Hyper-centralization of Political Power and Fragmentation of Local Authority Networks in Banten (Indonesia) Gabriel Facal Institut de Recherches Asiatiques, Aix-Marseille Universite 5 March 2014 Understanding Malay Ethnicity: Sri Lanka versus Brunei Darussalam B.A Hussainmiya FASS, UBD 19 February 2014 Talking Malay, Writing American – the case of Walter Gibson Hendrik Menko J. Maier Institute of Asian Studies, UBD 12 February 2014 The South China Sea as Asian Mediterranean: A “Fluid” Concept Phil Steinberg University of Durham 5 February 2014 Transnational Shift: Marriage, Home and Belonging for British Pakistani Muslim Women Robina Mohammad Institute of Asian Studies, UBD 19 January 2014 The Nature of Seasonal Play: A Theoterical and Methodological Discussion of “Appropriate” Playing Practices in Auckland, New Zealand Christina Ergler University of Otago Seminar Series Home 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020