2016-2019 IAS Wednesday Seminars

2019 IAS Wednesday Seminars

10 January 2019

Beloved Cousins or Enemy Brothers: Which Mutual Intelligibility between Indonesian and Malaysian Languages?

Jérôme Samuel

INALCO Paris

6 February 2019

‘Danger Zone’: Humanitarian Crisis Response, Disaster Governance and Class-Based Displacement in Tacloban City, Philippines

Magne Knudsen

FASS, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

13 February 2019

Higher Education, English and the Idea of ‘the West’: Globalizing and Encountering a Global South Regional University

Phan Le Ha

SHBIE, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

20 February 2019

Boni in Western Borneo

Johannes Kurz

FASS, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

6 March 2019

The Range of the River: New Spacial Scale across Northeastern India and Mainland Southeast Asia, 1850-1950

Iftekhar Iqbal

FASS, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

13 March 2019

World Heritage Sites and their Margins in Southeast Asian Tourism Development: Heritage-scapes and Non-heritage Spaces?

Victor T. King

IAS, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

10 April 2019

Muslim Writings about Pre-Islamic Archaeological Heritage

Michael Feener

University of Oxford

19 September 2019

Socializing Over Fruits and Vegetables: The Biocultural Importance of an Open-Air Market in Bandar Seri Begawan

F. Merlin Franco

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

25 September 2019

Rebalancing China’s Growth: The Role of Demand Regime

Bruno Jetin

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

2 October 2019

Revisiting Social Organization and Ethnic Identities in Borneo

Victor T. King

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

9 October 2019

2,000 Years of Brunei-China Relations: Reviewing Chinese Publications Since 1984

Johannes L. Kurz

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

16 October 2019

Collapsing the Mandala: Empirical Data from South Sulawesi versus Theoretical Models

Stephen C. Druce

Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

23 October 2019

Rethinking Human Security on Southeast Asia

Paul J. Carnegie

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

30 October 2019

The Political Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia/Singapore: Career of a Concept

Lian Kwen Fee

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

4 November 2019

Sarawak: The Making of Malaysia, and Dynamics of Politics

Michael Leigh

2018 IAS Wednesday Seminars

31 January 2018

Claiming Anthropological Authority in Borneo: Derek Freeman, His Legacy and Interpretations of Iban Material Culture ​

Victor T. King

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

8 February 2018

Super-Rich Agency and the Invisible (and Invisibilised) Work of Intermediaries

Sin Yee Koh

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

8 February 2018

Beyond Chineseness: Impetus, Incentive and Imagination in Mandarin Learning in Contemporary Indonesia

Hoon Chang Yau

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

14 February 2018

Reduction of Absolute Poverty, Increase of Relative Poverty, and Growing Inequalities in ASEAN​

Bruno Jetin

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

14 March 2018

Gendering International Relations (IR): The Double-edged Ethico-political Implications of the Feminist Critique of IR

Rommel Curaming

FASS, UBD

28 March 2018

Contradictory History: Wenlai and Boni in the “Official History of the Ming” (Mingshi 明史)

Johannes L. Kurz

FASS, UBD

26 September 2018

Women’s Inclusion in the Formal Peace Process in the Philippines: Do They Make a Difference?

Eliseo F. Huesca Jr.

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

03 October 2018

Diaspora, the Internet and the Re-Invention of Early Vietnamese History

Liam c. Kelley

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

10 October 2018

The EU in Southeast Asia: A Soft Power on the Rise?

Jörn Dosch

University of Rostock

17 October 2018

Reverence and Its Impact on Organisational Leadership: A Case of Brunei

Pg Dr Siti Rozaidah Pg Hj Idris

UBD School of Business and Economics

17 October 2018

Tracing The Roots of South Sulawesi's Islamic Diversity

steven c. druce

Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

31 October 2018

Asia in European Visual Culture (1500-1773)

Rui Oliveira Lopes

FASS, University Brunei Darussalam

1 December 2018

China and the Chinese Living Overseas

John Lowe

Chinese University of Hong Kong

05 December 2018

Place Attachment and Belonging among Educated Young Migrants and Returnees: The Case of Chaohu, China

Huimin Du

Hong Kong Baptist University

2017 IAS Wednesday Seminars

18 January 2017

Islam, Standards, and Technoscience in Global Halal Zones​

Johan Fischer

Roskilde University

2 February 2017

Perspectives on Sultanship among M'ranao Upland Farmers in the Southern Philippines​

Magne Knudsen

FASS, UBD

8 February 2017

Preliminary Thoughts on Ong Sum Ping in Brunei and North Borneo in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries​

Johannes Kurz

FASS, UBD

13 February 2017

Macro Trends in Asian International Relations​

David Shambaugh

George Washington University

22 February 2017

Representations of Painful Memories: World War II in Bruneian and Malaysian Literature​

Frank Dhont and Hannah Ho Ming Yit

IAS & FASS, UBD

28 February 2017

Subnational Joint Cooperation in Marine Environmental Protection: Scalar Narratives from the Gulf of Thailand​

Shaun Lin

ANCORS

1 March 2017

What’s in the Game in PCA’s South China Sea Decision, and Beyond? A View from China​

Sow Keat Tok

University of Melbourne

15 March 2017

Property Agents, Investment Clubs and Property Tourism: Facilitating the Migration-Mobilities of Middle-Class Investor-Migrants in Asia​

Koh Sin Yee

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

29 March 2017

Climate Change versus Livelihoods, Heritage and Ecosystems in Small Island States: A Case of Tuvalu​

Shafi Noor Islam

FASS, UBD

30 August 2017

Beyond Business Immigration: Development of New Immigrant Enterprises in Canada​

Mizanur Rahman

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

6 September 2017

The Emerging Nation of Indonesia: Moments of Identity​

frank dhont

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

13 September 2017

Institutionalist Perspectives on International Policy Coordination in Asia: The Case of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention Policy​

Adrian Kay

Institute of Policy Studies, UBD

11 October 2017

Permutations of the Global Publication Regime: Case-Studies in Tourism Studies​

Victor T. King

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

18 October 2017

Leftover Women? Gender Norms and Male-Female Difference in Paid Work Participation in China

Saizi Xiao

University of Malaya

21 October 2017

It is All About Happiness: Migration Theory and Practice​

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Regent’s University London

2 November 2017

Imagined Communities and an Imagined Southeast Asian Communitas: The Case of Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Liam C. kelley

University of Hawaii at Manoa

8 November 2017

Mutualism at Risk: The Relationship between Paymyra Tree (Borassus flabellifer L.) and the Pal Tree Climber​

Merlin Franco Francis

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

2016 IAS Wednesday Seminars

13 January 2016

Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Southeast Asian Puppetry

Jennifer Goodlander

Indiana University

20 January 2016

Coexistence of Differences: Towards an East Asian Way of Addressing Incompatibility

Mikio Oishi

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

3 February 2016

Re-Situating the Dutch-Aceh War in the Indian Ocean

Joshua Gedacht

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

9 March 2016

Unbounded Tohoku: A Reappraisal of Japanese Regionalism through Modern Mobility

Anne Giblin

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

9 March 2016

Race, Education, and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians and A Culture of Migration

Koh Sin Yee

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

24 August 2016

Can ASEAN Transform Southeast Asia into an Integrated Region?

Bruno Jetin

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

31 August 2016

Divergent Nation: Heterogenous Imaginings of “Indonesia” from the Center and Peripheries

Stefanie Nugroho

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

7 September 2016

The Development and Changes to Bilingual Education in Brunei Darussalam

Gary Jones

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

14 September 2016

A Comparative Study of Knowledge Acquisition in ICT Companies in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Farah Purwaningtum

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

14 September 2016

Learning from Kampong Kirkby and Kirkbytes: The Creation and Maintenance of Multicultural Conviviality

Koh Sin Yee

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

28 September 2016

Brunei Darussalam Offshore: Deep History

Antonino Briguglio & Frank Dhont

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

6 October 2016

Hong Kong in the World: Implications to Geopolitics and Competitiveness

Simon Shen

Chinese University of Hong Kong

12 October 2016

Pride and Loathing in History – the Search for a Cultural Identity in China and in Brunei

Shu Chunyan

Leiden University

19 October 2016

Conducting Migration Research in Bangladesh and Brunei: the Fieldwork Experience

Mst Rayhena Sarker

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

2 November 2016

Poverty, Inequality and Middle Classes in ASEAN Countries

Bruno Jetin

Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

5 November 2016

Advances in Molecular Genetics and Potential Benefits to Social Sciences (A Joint Seminar with FASS-UBD)

Guang Guo

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

7 November 2016

Competition Law and the Provision of Public Services in ASEAN: Does Regional Economic Development and Market Integration Require the Application of Competition Law to Public Services?

Andrea Gideon

National University of Singapore/Liverpool University