Seminar on Anthropology of Southeast Asia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “An Anthropology of Southeast Asia? The Interaction between Discipline and Area and Rethinking Introductory Texts” by Distinguished Professor Victor King (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminars on “Digital and Green Transitions” and “Census-Taking”

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held seminars on “Digital and Green Translations: Opportunities and Challenges for Europe and China” by Professor Roberta Rabellotti (University of Pavia (Italy)) and "Census-Taking and the Colonial Project: Sarawak and Brunei" by Professor Lian Kwen Fee (IAS@UBD).For more information, please see the flyers below.

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Seminar on Greenfield Smart Cities in Myanmar

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Greenfield Smart Cities in Myanmar: Politics and Technicalities of Pipe Dreams” by Assistant Professor Dr Angela Tritto (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Chinese Student Mobilities to Malaysia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Facilitating Mainland Chinese Student Mobilities to Malaysia: Student Agents, Social Media, and Brokerage Tactics” by Senior Assistant Professor Dr Sin Yee Koh (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Money and Happiness

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Can Money But Happyness? Income and Multidimensional Life Satisfaction in Brunei Darussalam” by Senior Assistant Professor Dr. Ly Slesman @ Sulaiman bin Mohd Aliis (CARe).For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Construction Workers in India

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Who is a Construction Worker? Bureaucratic Arbitrariness, Entrepreneurial Unions, and Performances of Eligibility in Delhi” by Assistant Professor Dr. Sanjeev Routray (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Representation Quality in Video Games

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a joint seminar with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at UBD on “Learning Outcomes as a Measure of Representation in Video Games” by Norhidayati Amal Nazihah Binti Haji Yunos (FASS).For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.For more information, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Borneo’s Economic Integration

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “The Long and Winding Road to Borneo’s Economic Integration” by Associate Professor Bruno Jetin (IAS).For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Community-Based Humanitarian Action in the Philippines

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a joint seminar with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) on “Exploring Community-Based Humanitarian Action during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban Areas of the Philippines” by Assistant Professor Dr. Maria Carinnes Alejandria (FASS).For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on the Sociology of the Everyday in Contemporary Brunei

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Mundane to Meaningful: Toward a Sociology of the Everyday in Contemporary Brunei” by Associate Professor Paul J. Carnegie.In this seminar, Dr. Carnegie discussed the sociology of the everyday approach, and introduced a recently published book in the IAS / Springer “Asia in Transition” book series that he co-edited with Professor Lian Kwen Fee and Dk Dr. Noor Hasharina Pg Hj Hassan (IAS) that employs this approach - (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam: A Sociology of the Everyday.For more about the seminar, please see the flyer…

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