Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, for a talk by Dr. Johannes L. Kurz of FASS, UBD, on "Boni in Western Borneo."For more information, please see the flyer below.
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 February 2019, for a talk by Phan Le Ha, Senior Professor in SHBIE, on “Higher Education, English, and the idea of ‘the West’: Globalizing and Encountering a Global South Regional University.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam was fortunate to have Professor Jérôme Samuel (INALCO, Paris) recently present a talk for the IAS Wednesday Seminar Series on “Beloved Cousins or Enemy Brothers: Which Mutual Intelligibility between Indonesian and Malaysian Languages?”After the talk, Professor Samuel sat down with us to discuss the main points of his research on the mutual intelligibility of Indonesian and Malaysian Languages as well as his other research interests.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4sA_dcDmms
IAS is pleased to announce a new publication by IAS Director Associate Professor Bruno Jetin on “Production Networks of the Asian Automobile Industry: Regional or Global?” in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management Vol.18 No.4 (2018): 302-328. DOI: 10.1504/IJATM.2018.097346For more information, please see the abstract below.
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 February 2019, for a talk by Dr. Magne Knudsen on “‘Danger Zone’: Humanitarian Crisis Response, Disaster Governance and Class-Based Displacement in Tacloban City, Philippines.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
In this video Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam continues his discussion with Professor Ooi Keat Gin, a historian in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia. In this video, they discuss a joint project that they are working on to document the work and ideas of the pioneer scholars of Southeast Asian Studies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbV5D8Lkv7g
Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at IAS, has just had published a special issue of the journal Suvannabhumi: Multidisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies that he edited on “Alternative Approaches in Southeast Asian Studies: Compounding Area Studies and Cultural Studies.” This special issue consists of papers and commentaries that emerged from a conference organized by the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies (ISEAS-BUFS) on 10-12 May, 2018.
Please join us at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, 10 January 2019, for a talk by Professor Jérôme Samuel (INALCO Paris) on “Beloved Cousins or Enemy Brothers: Which Mutual Intelligibility between Indonesian and Malaysian Languages?”For more information, please see the flyer below.
In this video, Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam continues his discussion with Professor Ooi Keat Gin, a historian in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia. They begin by talking about “Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor,” a work that Ooi Keat Gin edited and published in 2004.Their discussion then goes on to cover the (declining) state of Southeast Asian Studies in the UK and Europe in the twenty-first century.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=jGgtovbtvrY
In this video, Associate Professor Bruno Jetin, an economist and the director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, discusses the Belt and Road Initiative its impact on various countries in Asia and beyond.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhR_y2giB4