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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published an article entitled “Paper Struggles: Documents, Inscriptions, and Citizenship Negotiations in Delhi.”Published in the journal, City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, the article examines how certain documents, such as ration cards and voter IDs, play a role in establishing and validating claims of urban citizenship in DelhiHere is the full abstract:The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare…
The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) recently held a joint FASS-IAS seminar on “State of Asian Studies: Trajectories and Recent Tendencies” by Professor David Ludden of New York University.Professor Ludden visited UBD to present a keynote at, and participate in, a FASS conference on “Fluvial Phenomena: Re-engaging Rivers in the Anthropocene.”For more information about the joint FASS-IAS seminar, please see the flyer below.
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Rethinking the Remittances-Development Nexus: The Case of Sambas District, Indonesia” by Associate Professor Dr Fariastuti Djafar of Universitas Tanjungpura, Indonesia.For more information, please see the flyer below.