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New IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Volume on Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series: Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia: Critical Perspectives edited by Zawawi Ibrahim, Gareth Richards, and Victor T. King. Discourses, Agency and Identity in Malaysia: Critical Perspectives seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ that dominates explanations of conflicts and…

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November 10, 2021

Seminar Series

Seminar on Translanguaging Practices in Borneo and Mindanao

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 20 October 2021 for joint IAS-FASS seminar by Associate Professor Dr James McLellan (FASS) on “Borneo and Mindanao: A Comparative Study of Translanguaging Practices, Identity Projection, Negotiation and Concealment.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

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October 20, 2021

Announcements

October 2021 IAS Newsletter

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.)

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October 14, 2021

Publications

Arensen on Inhabiting a War-Altered Landscape in Cambodia

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:…

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October 14, 2021

Seminar Series

Seminar on Political Consolidation in Malaysia

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.

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October 13, 2021

Seminar Series

Seminar on Sacred Topographies & Land Use Management in Cambodia

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.

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October 5, 2021

Working Papers

IAS Working Paper on Migration, Ethnic Diversity, and Economic Growth in Indonesia

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…

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September 22, 2021

Seminar Series

Seminar on East / West Synergies and Complexities

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.

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September 5, 2021

Announcements

Lisa Arensen Wins Anthropology Award

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…

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August 7, 2021

Announcements

Victor T. King on Borneo Through Photographs

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…

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July 8, 2021