Seminar Series

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 11 November 2020 for a talk by Dr. Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at UBD and an Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Research Associate, on “Beyond Nostalgia: Kampong, Place, Personhood, and Belonging in Contemporary Singapore.”This seminar is jointly sponsored by IAS and FASS. For more details, please see the flyer below

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 28 October 2020 for a talk by Dr. Johannes L. Kurz, Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of History and International Relations in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), on “Beyond Shilifoshi and Sanfoqi: Some Critical Remarks on the History of Srivijaya and Chinese Sources.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 21 October 2020 for a talk by Dr. Aris Ananta, visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) at UBD, on “Voluntary Immobility: Will it be the Future Dominant Population Mobility Pattern?”This seminar is jointly sponsored by IAS and CARe. For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 14 October 2020 for a talk by Dr. Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Senior Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) at UBD, on “Ethnic Fractionalisation and Polarisation in Indonesia.”This seminar is jointly sponsored by IAS and CARe. For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 16 September 2020 for a talk by Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal, Associate Professor of History at UBD, on “Yearning for the Yangzi: Empires and Mobilities in a River Network.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 September 2020 for a talk by Dr. Meredian Alam, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UBD, on “Ecological Habitus and Environmental Activism in Bandung City.” For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 March 2019, for a talk by Professor Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at IAS, on "World Heritage Sites and their Margins in Southeast Asian Tourism Development: Heritage-scapes or Non-heritage Spaces?"For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 March 2020 for a talk by Dr. Liam C. Kelley, Associate Professor at IAS, on “Rethinking Trade and the Environment in Southeast Asian History.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 19 February 2020 for the following two presentations:“Development, Change and Modernization in Kampong Ayer over the Last Fifty Years” by Dr. Haji Tassim bin Abu Bakar;“Origins, Rank, Ethnic Homogeneity and Historiography: An Evaluation of Donald Brown’s Historical-Anthropological Work on Brunei” by Stephen C. Druce.For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 February 2020 for a talk by Dr. Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at IAS, on “Professor Donald E. Brown's Study of Brunei and His Contribution to Anthropology: An Evaluation.”For more information, please see the flyer below.