Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 24 March 2021 for a talk by Professor Victor T. King (IAS) and Dr. Magne Knudsen (FASS) on “The Iban of Brunei Darussalam: Case Studies of Change and Response among a Minority Population in Temburong.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

On Saturday 6 March, the Institute of Asian Studies will be hosting three seminars. Please see the flyer below for detailed information.

The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) will host a seminar at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 24 February 2021 on “Does Foreign Aid Promote Foreign Direct Investment in Cambodia?” by Dr. Ly Slesman @ Sulaiman bin Mohd Ali.For more information, please see the flyer below.

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 10 February 2021 for a talk by Dr. Rommel Curaming, 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 “The Analytical is Politcal: Rizal and the Rethinking of the Analytics of Malayness.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

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.