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
Historian Ooi Keat Gin from Universiti Sains Malaysia visited the Institute of Asian Studies and talked about his career and his scholarship on World War II and Cold War Borneo. In this first video, Ooi Keat Gin discusses his work on the World War II period with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GupM1Gvp50
In this video we talk with Associate Professor Bruno Jetin, an economist and the director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, about the Belt and Road Initiative and the role of the social sciences in examining this world-changing enterprise.https://www.yohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY-9tF9T3EEutube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E
Here are parts 2 and 3 of the inaugural IAS@UBD Video Conversation. In this conversation we discuss tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmIPUYZwUQ
In this inaugural IAS@UBD Video Conversation, we discuss tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Professor King has been researching about Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Borneo, since the 1970s. He began researching about tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia in the 1980s, and continues to research about that topic today.In this first video we talk about Professor King's interest in, and research on, this topic, and in subsequent videos we examine more closely some of the issues in…
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 October 2018, for a talk by IAS Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley on “Diaspora, the Internet and the Re-Invention of Early Vietnamese History.”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. 44: Everyday Voices in Marginal Places: Political Anxiety, Resistance, and Mass Support under Duterte’s Martial Law by Eliseo F. Huesca Jr and Dr. Margie D. Fiesta. Please see below for details. Abstract: This paper examines ordinary people’s voices by foregrounding their sentiments and perspectives on Duterte’s imposition of martial law following the Marawi siege in May 2017. The paper purposively privileges the voices of everyday citizens, which are often overlooked, to generate alternative viewpoints to the elite-driven narratives dominating political…
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No. 43: Agrarian Transition and Smallholder Success Through Local Networks: A Case Study from Mindanao by Magne Knudsen. Please see below for details. Abstract: On the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, scholars have documented a precarious land tenure, livelihood, and security situation for many smallholders. Agrarian political economy studies provide insightful analysis of the underlying causes of much poverty and violence on the island. Less attention has been given to cases of smallholder success. This article proposes that conditions for smallholder…