Dr. Jonathan Rigg, Professor and Chair in Human Geography at the University of Bristol, sat down for a talk at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam about his latest book, More than Rural: Textures of Thailand's Agrarian Transformation, and other issues concerning rural-urban relations and interactions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdw6fEX68qY

Senior Professor Phan Lê Hà, from the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, sat down for a talk about her Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Wednesday Seminar presentation on “Higher Education, English, and the idea of ‘the West’: Globalizing and Encountering a Global South Regional University.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSzIM5ELv7k

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam was fortunate to have Professor Jérôme Samuel (INALCO, Paris) recently present a talk for the IAS Wednesday Seminar Series on “Beloved Cousins or Enemy Brothers: Which Mutual Intelligibility between Indonesian and Malaysian Languages?”After the talk, Professor Samuel sat down with us to discuss the main points of his research on the mutual intelligibility of Indonesian and Malaysian Languages as well as his other research interests.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4sA_dcDmms

In this video Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam continues his discussion with Professor Ooi Keat Gin, a historian in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia. In this video, they discuss a joint project that they are working on to document the work and ideas of the pioneer scholars of Southeast Asian Studies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbV5D8Lkv7g

In this video, Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam continues his discussion with Professor Ooi Keat Gin, a historian in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia. They begin by talking about “Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor,” a work that Ooi Keat Gin edited and published in 2004.Their discussion then goes on to cover the (declining) state of Southeast Asian Studies in the UK and Europe in the twenty-first century.https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=jGgtovbtvrY

In this video, Associate Professor Bruno Jetin, an economist and the director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, discusses the Belt and Road Initiative its impact on various countries in Asia and beyond.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhR_y2giB4

Historian Ooi Keat Gin from Universiti Sains Malaysia visited the Institute of Asian Studies and talked about his career and his scholarship on World War II and Cold War Borneo. In this first video, Ooi Keat Gin discusses his work on the World War II period with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GupM1Gvp50

In this video we talk with Associate Professor Bruno Jetin, an economist and the director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, about the Belt and Road Initiative and the role of the social sciences in examining this world-changing enterprise.https://www.yohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY-9tF9T3EEutube.com/watch?v=XHOmBV4js_E

Here are parts 2 and 3 of the inaugural IAS@UBD Video Conversation. In this conversation we discuss tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmIPUYZwUQ

In this inaugural IAS@UBD Video Conversation, we discuss tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia with Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Professor King has been researching about Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Borneo, since the 1970s. He began researching about tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia in the 1980s, and continues to research about that topic today.In this first video we talk about Professor King's interest in, and research on, this topic, and in subsequent videos we examine more closely some of the issues in…