Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 March 2019, for a talk by Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal of FASS, UBD, on "The Range of the River: New Spacial Scale across Northeastern India and Mainland Southeast Asia, 1850-1950."For more information, please see the flyer below.
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No. 45: Stranger Kings and Strangers in an Asiatic Country: The Ambiguity of Human Relations in Early British North Borneo by Liam C. Kelley. Please see below for details. Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how it is that a small number of Europeans were able to extend their authority and control over the northern region of the island of Borneo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to establish a state known as British North Borneo, as well as…
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.