The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share its latest newsletter.To learn about the work of the Institute and its researchers, please see below.To view previous IAS newsletters, please click here. October 2021 Newsletter (Please refresh the page if the newsletter does not load.)
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Lisa Arensen has recently published a paper entitled “Living with Landmines: Inhabiting a War-Altered Landscape.”Published in Material Culture, this article examines the efforts of the inhabitants of Reakshmei Songha village in western Cambodia to live in an environment that is littered with the material remains of war.To view the article, please visit the Material Culture website.To learn more about Dr. Arensen’s scholarship, please visit her IAS staff web page.Arensen, L. (2021). “Living with Landmines: Inhabiting a War-Altered Landscape.” Material Culture (online first): 1-16. Doi:…
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 13 October 2021 for a talk by Associate Professor Dr Abdillah Noh (FASS) on “Change Agents in Political Consolidation in Malaysia: Part of a Solution or Part of the Problem.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 06 October 2021 for a talk by Dr. Lisa Arensen (IAS) on “Cooling the Land: Sacred Topographies & Land Use Management on Cambodia’s Kulen Plateau.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 66: Migration, Ethnic Diversity, and Economic Growth: Towards an Empirical Understanding of Regional Development in Indonesia by Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Ari Purbowati, and Paul J. Carnegie. Please see below for details. Abstract: It is a commonly held assumption that while migrants can contribute to economic growth, their impacts on population composition may also generate socio-cultural tensions and political instability. As such, ethnic diversity of a province or a community may have a positive or negative affect on regional…
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 29 September 2021 for a talk by Professor Victor T. King (IAS) on “East and West Synergies and Complexities: Syed Hussein Alatas, Willem F. Wertheim and Eward Said.”For more information, please see the flyer below.
Dr. Lisa Arensen, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, has been awarded First Prize in the 2021 Creative Ethnographic Prose Writing Competition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.An experiment in reflexive writing about development work in Cambodia, Dr. Arensen’s paper is entitled “Province of Thieves: An Essay on Violence, Reflexivity and the Cross-Cultural Encounter.”The Creative Ethnographic Prose Competition is meant to highlight the potential for story to simultaneously engage readers and explore topics of anthropological concern.Dr. Arensen’s award-winning paper will be published in a forthcoming…
Dr. Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam recently gave a talk to the Panaga Photographic Society (PPS) on Borneo through photographs.In this talk, Professor King discussed photographs that he had taken over 50 years of conducting research on Borneo and highlighted the ways that these photographs can illuminate the many changes that societies on Borneo, including Brunei, have undergone over that period.In noting the value of photographs for documenting societies, Professor King encouraged members of the PPS to take photos of current societies, as those photos will in time…
The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) had a strong presence at the recent Universiti Brunei Darussalam – Borneo Studies Network (UBD-BSN) Borneo Studies Conference held 30 June - 1 July 2021 at UBD and virtually with the theme of “Borneo Within, Borneo Beyond.”IAS Director, Associate Professor Bruno Jetin, a member of the conference organizing committee, introduced the first keynote of the conference by Dr. Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at IAS. Professor King’s keynote was entitled “A Contextualization and Deconstruction of Borneo Studies over the last 50 Years,” and it provided a comprehensive context for understanding how Borneo…
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share the programme for the Universiti Brunei Darussalam – Borneo Studies Network (UBD-BSN) Borneo Studies Conference to be held 30 June - 1 July 2021.This conference is virtual, and the conference programme contains Zoom links to the sessions.Please see below for the programme or click here to download a pdf version of the programme.Please scroll to the bottom of each image to access the Zoom links. Opening Session Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocu-opzkoG9P4Lming1ll6r4p1SHbczXV Panel 1 Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/95738754528?pwd=TEdRZ1h4MmNFNWtyaW5wZWcvVitPUT09Panel 2 Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/96737806036?pwd=Z2djS3ArZ0NNbXRJQkMzR28xL0VNdz09 Panel 3 Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93513802814?pwd=Wm1qS3NTeVorTHRiNUx2N05TUTJlUT09Panel…