2013-2015 IAS Wednesday Seminars

2015 IAS Wednesday Seminars

18 January 2015

Revival and Controversy of Chinese Popular Religions in Central Java: A Heritage Renovation Project of Sam Poo Kong Temple in Semarang

Syuan-Yuan Chiou

National Chengchi University, Taiwan

19 January 2015

Poverty, Inequality and Social Cohesion in ASEAN Countries

Bruno Jetin

IRASEC, Bangkok, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité

20 January 2015

The “Shaykh al-Islam of the Philippines” and Coercive Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Empire

Joshua Gedacht

ARI, National University of Singapore

20 January 2015

Immigration and Integration Policy in Singapore

Md Mizanur Rahman

ISAS, National University of Singapore

4 February 2015

The New “Sub-Economy” in Indonesia

Gwenael Njoto-Feillard

ISEAS, Singapore

18 February 2015

Southeast Asian Studies: the Conundrum of Area Studies and Methodologies

Victor T. King

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

18 February 2015

Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital and Ethnicity

Hoon Chang Yau

Singapore Management University

11 March 2015

Bukan Tempat Relaks Sahaja: Coffee Shops in Colonial Singapore as Domains of Contentious Publics

Khairudin Aljunied

National University of Singapore

18 March 2015

“Stories through Memories”: Bruneian Experiences of World War II

Janet Marles, Maslin bin Haji Jukim & Frank Dhont

James Cooke University & UBD

1 April 2015

Refugees and Migrants with HIV/AIDS in North America: Stigma, Discriminations and Vulnerabilities

AKM Ahsan Ullah

FASS, UBD

17 August 2015

Indigenous Calendars – the Past, Present and Future

Merlin Franco

Curtin Sarawak Research Institute, Curtin University

19 August 2015

Press Materials as a Source of Information about the Image of Southeast Asia in the World

Jaroslaw Suchoples

IKMAS, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

26 August 2015

National Identity in Bruneian Literature

Kathrina bte DP Haji Mohd Daud

FASS, UBD

2 September 2015

Cao Dai Religion and Transnational Religious Innovation in Modern Vietnam: Conjugating Chinese Redemptive Societies and French Occultism

Jeremy Jammes

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

16 September 2015

The Imperiled Filipina Migrant Body: Dangerous Pleasures ad Liminal Possibilities in Jose Dalisay’s Soledad’s Sister

Grace V.S. Chin

FASS, UBD

30 September 2015

The Tomb of Master Pu in Brunei and the “Miscellaneous Record of the Western Mountain”

Johannes L. Kurz

FASS, UBD 

7 October 2015

What is the Middle East? Where is the Middle East? Shifting Geopolitical Imaginations and Boundaries

Gubara Said Hassan

Institute of Policy Studies, UBD

21 October 2015

Leaders, Leadership and Politics in South Sulawesi: Qahhar Mudzakkar and His Legacy

Stephen Druce

Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

28 October 2015

Which Socio/Ethno-linguistic Practices Survive the Processes of “Modernisation” in Borneo Societies?

James McLellan

FASS, UBD

4 November 2015

The Korean Wave in Indonesia: Korean Television Dramas among Indonesian Muslim Youth

Imron Rosidi

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

2014 IAS Wednesday Seminars

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

5 February 2014

Transnational Shift: Marriage, Home and Belonging for British Pakistani Muslim Women

Robina Mohammad

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

12 February 2014

The South China Sea as Asian Mediterranean: A “Fluid” Concept

Phil Steinberg

University of Durham

19 February 2014

Talking Malay, Writing American – The Case of Walter Gibson

Hendrik Menko J. Maier

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

5 March 2014

Understanding Malay Ethnicity: Sri Lanka versus Brunei Darussalam

B.A Hussainmiya

FASS, UBD

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

17 March 2014

Kanching Manis: Culture and Diabetes in Malay Society

Saiful Islam & A.H.M. Zehadul Karim

UBD & International Islamic University

26 March 2014

Brunei Malay Traditional Healing Knowledge

Virginie Roseberg

University of Western Australia)

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 Cheng Sim

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

1 October 2014

“Nusantara”: The Governance of South China Sea

Hans-Dieter Evers

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

8 October 2014

Social Stratification Research in Vietnam

Bui The Cuong

Southern Institute of Social Sciences

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

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

2013 IAS Wednesday Seminars

23 January 2013

Reflections on Knowledge Politics in/on Southeast Asia

Rommel Curaming

FASS, UBD

6 February 2013

The Governance of Knowledge: Southeast Asian Perspectives

Hans-Dieter Evers

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

20 February 2013

New Malaysia Cinema and Alternative Imaginings of National Identity and Culture

Che Wan Zawawi bin Ibrahim

Institute of Asian Studies & FASS, UBD

13 March 2013

International Differences in Work-Related Values - A Comparative Study of Chinese Companies in Singapore and China

Lee Cheuk Yin

National University of Singapore

20 March 2013

Borneo in the Early Modern Period: Influences from Without and Developments from Within

Ooi Keat Gin

Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

3 April 2013

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: Why and How Its Dispute Management System is Failing

Mikio Oishi

Institute of Asian Studies & Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

17 April 2013

Is Indonesia’s Democratization a Road Map for the Arab Spring?

Paul J. Carnegie

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

13 September 2013

How do Poli and Boni Relate to Borneo? A Survey of Chinese Sources from the 10th to 18th Centuries

Johannes L. Kurz

FASS, UBD

18 October 2013

Governance of Knowledge: Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Farah Purwaningrum

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

18 October 2013

Autonomous Histories, Indigenous Voices: South Sulawesi History Between 1200 to 1600 and its Oral and Written Traditions

Stephen Druce

Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

23 October 2013

Racialization and the Politics of Malay Identity in Singapore

Lian Kwen Fee

Institute of Asian Studies, UBD

6 November 2013

Gender and Migration: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Evidence

Solvay Gerke

University of Bonn

2012 IAS Wednesday Seminars

12 September 2012

Disturbing the Rice Pot: Market Modelling Criminal Enterprise

Nafis Muhammad Hanif

University of Sydney

3 October 2012

The Invisible Engine: An Excavation of the Narratives of Amahs in Brunei

Kathrina bte DP Haji Mohd Daud

FASS, UBD

10 October 2012

Criminology, Social Order and Risk: The Value of Considering the “Governmental Project”

Narayanan Ganapathy

National University of Singapore

17 October 2012

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as a Conflict Management Regime

Mikio Oishi

Institute of Asian Studies & Academy of Brunei Studies, UBD

31 October 2012

Strategies for Maintaining and Revitalizing Borneo Indigenous Minority Languages: Evaluating Multilingual Education and Online Developments

James McLellan

FASS, UBD

14 November 2012

The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies: the UK and Europe

Victor T. King

Emeritus Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of Leeds/Eminent Visiting Professor, IAS, UBD