Dr. F. Merlin Franco, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, has recently published a review of Cynthia T. Fowler’s Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (Lexington, 2016) in the journal Ethnobiology Letters.Dr. Franco is an ethnobiologist interested in the interrelationship between human culture, language, and biodiversity.Franco, F. M. (2018). Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia. By Cynthia T. Fowler. 2016. Lexington Books, Lanham. 137 pp. Ethnobiology Letters, 9(2), 307-308. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.1374

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.

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.