The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share its latest newsletter.Please click here to read about the activities of the Institute and the staff at IAS.
Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee participated in the Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM) Workshop Meeting held on 22-23 August 2024 at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.Dr Koh is the Country Researcher for Malaysia in this two-year project funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2. The project aims to document the ways China is shaping tertiary education spaces and new circuits of mobility among youths in Southeast Asia. The study employs a cross-disciplinary conceptual and methodological approach to study regional student mobility…
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Who is a Construction Worker? Bureaucratic Arbitrariness, Entrepreneurial Unions, and Performances of Eligibility in Delhi” by Assistant Professor Dr. Sanjeev Routray (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to celebrate the milestone of IAS Working Paper No. 80: Polygamy in Brunei: Examining the Family Structure and Experiences of Half-Siblings by the inaugural Victor T. King Prize Winner, Amirah Japar.Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract:This paper explores the unique experiences of individuals within polygamous families, specifically from the lens of the offspring – a viewpoint not commonly considered before making decisions to enter this arrangement. Drawing on interviews with eight Malay Muslim Bruneians, this study provides insight into the significance of family cohesion on the lives of…
Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Carnegie recently published a new journal article in a special issue of Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal on Disaster, Risk and Conducting Human Security Research in Southeast Asia. By drawing on observations across the region over several years combined with a review of relevant research, the article makes the case for a grounded and disaggregated human security approach for decoding contemporary forms of jeopardy in Southeast Asia. It details how the vulnerability and exposure to disaster of at-risk communities in the region extends beyond random or natural events. This underscores the conceptual and methodological importance of a human security approach to grasp the disaster-prone territories…
On 29 May 2024, Brunei Darussalam Arbitration Centre held a seminar entitled “Towards A More Efficient Dispute Resolution: Best Practice in Asia and Beyond”. In this event, IAS Eminent Visiting Professor Dr Michael Hwang SC delivered a keynote lecture on "Guerilla Warfare in International Arbitration". The lecture was followed by a panel session by Dr Hwang, Professor Luke Nottage (also IAS Eminent Visiting Professor), Mr David Ravenscroft and IAS Assistant Professor Dr Nobumichi Teramura.
On 28 May 2024, the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) co-organised a conference, “Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration: Book Launch and Symposium” with UBD School of Business and Economics (SBE) and the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) at the Golden Jubilee Hall in the Law and Courts Building in Bandar Seri Begawan. The IAS-SBE International Symposium on “Academic Perspectives on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region” on 29 May 2023 has culminated in a conference volume entitled “Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer, 2024)”. This AGC-IAS-SEB event celebrated…
Assistant Professor Dr Nobumichi Teramura, with Professor Leon Trakman (UNSW Law & Justice, Australia), published an open access journal article entitled "Confidentiality and privacy of arbitration in the digital era: pies in the sky?" in Arbitration International. "Abstract: Confidentiality and privacy are essential components of arbitration, preceding the digital data era. This article discusses how arbitration stakeholders—arbitration institutions and associations, arbitrators, attorneys, and commercial users—have increasingly lost control over confidentiality and privacy in international commercial arbitration by adopting digital technologies provided by Internet giants, such as Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, and Zoom. Arbitration institutions and users have, often unconsciously, defined confidentiality…
Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee has recently published an open access article on “Lifestyle migrants’ urban citizenship and right to have rights” in Cities.The article uses the case of the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme during a time of crisis to highlight the scalar tensions in normative understandings of lifestyle migrants’ urban citizenship. In doing so, it challenges empowering and emancipatory accounts of (migrant) urban citizenship.
The volume (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam: A Sociology of the Everyday edited by IAS Director Dk Dr Noor Hasharina Binti Pg Hj Hassan and fellow Institute colleagues Prof. Lian Kwen Fee and Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Carnegie has made Springer's influential Research Highlights List for Sociology. Their introductory chapter was included in the yearly Top Chapters section and the volume appeared in the selected Textbooks, Monographs and Edited Books section. (click on link below)Sociology | For Researchers | Springer NatureThe book has also achieved the distinction of being the most downloaded volume in the history of the IAS ‘Asia in Transition’ Book Series…