Read more about the article Symposium on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Symposium on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region

As part of a research project funded by University Brunei Darussalam (UBD), the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the School of Business and Economics (SBE) at UBD co-hosted an international symposium on “Academic Perspectives on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region” at ILIA Conference Room on 29 May 2023.The invited speakers analysed and discussed the mechanism of corruption related to foreign direct investment from legal and economic perspectives, using case studies from countries in the Asia Pacific region.The symposium was attended by 80 speakers and guests from Brunei and abroad, including Vice Chancellor Dr Hazri bin…

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June 7, 2023
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Working Paper on the Chinese Sources on Early Southeast Asian History

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 73: Revisiting the Chinese Sources on Early Southeast Asian History by Liam C. Kelley.Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract:Chinese sources have played a very important role in the writing of early Southeast Asian history. However, scholars have struggled to understand the information in those sources and over the past century, there have been countless different interpretations that have been put forward. In this paper, we revisit the Chinese sources on early Southeast Asian history and do…

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June 1, 2023
Read more about the article New IAS/Springer Volume on Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
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New IAS/Springer Volume on Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series, Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan and Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach. This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I.…

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May 18, 2023
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Seminar on the Localization of Religion in Vietnam

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “The Localization of Religion in Vietnam” by PhD candidate Duong Van Bien of IAS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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May 16, 2023
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New Carnegie Endowment Paper on the Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia

Assistant Professor Angela Tritto of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published a new paper for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace entitled “How Indonesia Used Chinese Industrial Investments to Turn Nickel into the New Gold.”The paper is a study of the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi, one of the largest Chinese investments in Indonesia, and more specifically, of the cross-currents that both Chinese and Indonesian players in this project have had to navigate.The paper is available online on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website.

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May 16, 2023
Read more about the article Seminar on Social Reproduction in an Industrial Neighborhood of Delhi
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Seminar on Social Reproduction in an Industrial Neighborhood of Delhi

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Emplacements: Production and Social Reproduction in an Industrial Neighbourhood of Delhi” by Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray of IAS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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May 16, 2023
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New IAS/Springer Volume on Brunei Darussalam

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series, (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam: A Sociology of the Everyday edited by Lian Kwen Fee, Paul J. Carnegie and Noor Hasharina Hassan (IAS).This book has been made open access through the generous support of Universiti Brunei Darussalam. This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream…

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May 12, 2023
Read more about the article Online Writing Workshop for Southeast Asian Early Career Social Science Researchers Studying Southeast Asia
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Online Writing Workshop for Southeast Asian Early Career Social Science Researchers Studying Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is a region with diverse cultures and languages. Scholars based in Southeast Asia are relatively well-published in local journals in English and local languages. However, internationally recognised published research by Southeast Asian social science scholars who are based in the region is still limited. This is even more so for early career researchers (ECRs) who may lack the experience, exposure and confidence to disseminate their work to an international scholarly audience. At the same time, Southeast Asian ECRs based outside the region may also face challenges in publishing in internationally recognised journals due to language barriers. Moreover, the…

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May 9, 2023
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Working Paper on Ethnographic Research on Religion in Cambodia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 72: Speaking for the Spirits: A Reflection on Knowledge, Expertise, and Methodology in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Religion by Lisa Arensen. Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: Our ways of representing the cosmological world are core issues in the reconfigured animism field in contemporary anthropology, as well as a recurring theme in the social sciences’ current interest in ontologies. This paper interrogates methodological questions of decisions regarding who to listen to as cosmological interlocuters in fieldwork, and…

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April 5, 2023
Read more about the article Seminar on Smart City Development in Southeast Asia
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Seminar on Smart City Development in Southeast Asia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Urban Utopia or Pipe Dream: Examining Chinese Invested Smart City Development in Southeast Asia” by Assistant Professor Angela Tritto of IAS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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March 28, 2023