A report on the recent public lecture sponsored by IAS and UBD on “Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Inclusive Future of Work” by Dr. Mia Mikic, has been featured in the Borneo Bulletin.Please follow the link below to read the report:https://borneobulletin.com.bn/jobs-requiring-digital-skills-go-12pc-four-years-2/Dr. Mikic, Director of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division at UN ESCAP, spoke to a full auditorium on the topic of the industrial revolution 4.0 and its consequences for work in Asia.Below please find some images from the event.

Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has been honored with a book that has been published in recognition of his contributions to the field of Southeast Asian Studies.The book is entitled Borneo and Sulawesi: Indigenous Peoples, Empires and Area Studies (Routledge, 2019) and is edited by Ooi Keat Gin.The description of the book states that,“This book presents a great deal of new research findings on the history of Borneo, the history of Sulawesi and the interrelationship between the two islands.  Some specific chapters focus on empires and colonizers, including the activities of…

Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam has been appointed Editor-in-chief of the journal, Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. King was formerly the Co-editor.Suvannabhumi is the journal of the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies and is devoted to the publication of scholarship on Southeast Asian Studies. Now in its eleventh year, the journal has recently been recognized by the Korean Citation Index.

Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam delivered an address in a keynote forum at the International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICOSSH); Integrating the Culture and Civilization of the Nusantara, organised by Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) at the Parkcity Everly Hotel, Bintulu, Sarawak, 8-9 October 2019.Dr. King’s presentation was entitled ‘From the “Sociology of the Social” to the “Sociology of the Cultural” : East-West Parallels and the Southeast Asian Context’.The forum comprised Professor King, and Distinguished Professor Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), who was awarded in…

Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of IAS Merlin Franco was featured in the Brunei News in an article about Dr. Merlin's recent research on hornbills in Brunei. Please click here to view the article in the Brunei News.

On 21 September 2019 IAS Director Dr. Bruno Jetin, received a delegation from King Prajadhipok Institute in Thailand, and made a seminar presentation to the 43 visitors on social conditions in ASEAN.

Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of IAS Merlin Franco gave a talk on 19 August 2019 to the Brunei Nature Society on "When the Seeds Sprout, the Hornbills Hatch: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Ibans on the Hornbills of Brunei."In this talk Dr. Franco shared some of the findings of a research project that he carried out together with his research assistant, Miss Misa Juliana Minggu, on the traditional ecological knowledge of members of the Iban people of the Temburong district in Brunei.The full results of this research project have been accepted for publication and we will make an announcement…

Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley will give a talk for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Seminar Series on “The Forgotten Role of the ‘Royal Nation’ of Vietnam.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

CY Hoon was a Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, from June to July 2017; and the Network of ASEAN-China Academic Institutes Youth Visiting Scholar at Fudan University from October to November 2017.

On the 26-27th of April 2017, Dr. Bruno Jetin was invited as a discussant and resource speaker at the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) Dialogue on the analysis of non-tariff measures organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and Agence Française du Development (AFD) in Bangkok. He discussed a paper on Economic and environmental impact of “the Belt and Road Initiative” by Jianhong Lu, Zhengyan Liu, Peng Song, Xianqiang Mao.Associate Professor Bruno Jetin was invited at the second ASEAN Economic Integration Forum (AEIF) held in Kuala Lumpur on 14-15…