Read more about the article New Article on Traditional Healers and Medicinal Plants in Brunei
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New Article on Traditional Healers and Medicinal Plants in Brunei

F. Merlin Franco, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has recently co-authored an article on traditional healing practices and medicinal plants in the Kiudang area of Tutong District, Brunei Darussalam.Entitled “A Comparative Account of the Traditional Healing Practices and Healers and Non-healers in the Kiudang Area of Brunei Darussalam,” this article has just been published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.To quote from the abstract, the article compares “the traditional medicinal knowledge and associated spiritual practices of healers with that of non-healers, to understand the relevance of healers in contemporary times. Given…

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April 6, 2020
Read more about the article IAS Working Paper on Performative Mimicry and Postcolonial Exoticism in Literature
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IAS Working Paper on Performative Mimicry and Postcolonial Exoticism in Literature

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 54: Performative mimicry and postcolonial exoticism: A re-politicising of the female body in the work of Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and Amir Falique by Mahfuzah Abd Wahab. Please see below for details. Abstract: While the myth of the exotic Oriental is a subject of rejection and subversion in conventional postcolonial studies, in contemporary studies of Southeast Asia, self-exoticism is evident at both the individual and national levels. It is deployed to achieve positional status in a globalised world. This paper investigates…

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March 31, 2020
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New Publication on Human Security in Oceania

Associate Professor Paul J. Carnegie and Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) have just published a chapter on human security in Oceania.Entitled “Mapping Circumstances in Oceania: Reconsidering Human Security in an Age of Globalisation,” this chapter appears in the new book Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture (Routledge 2020).In their chapter, Carnegie and King “contend that the field of human security (which tends to be dominated by the disciplinary concerns of international relations, development and security studies) needs to engage more fully…

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March 31, 2020
Read more about the article Seminar on Heritage Sites and Tourism in Southeast Asia
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Seminar on Heritage Sites and Tourism in Southeast Asia

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 March 2019, for a talk by Professor Victor T. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at IAS, on "World Heritage Sites and their Margins in Southeast Asian Tourism Development: Heritage-scapes or Non-heritage Spaces?"For more information, please see the flyer below.

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March 10, 2020
Read more about the article King Presents at Borneo Tourism Research Centre in Sabah
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King Presents at Borneo Tourism Research Centre in Sabah

Professor Victor T. King presented two talks on 27 February 2020 at the Borneo Tourism Research Centre, Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu on “ASEAN Tourism Development: Borneo Case Studies” and “Writing for Academic Publication”.The visit was organised by Associate Professor Dr. Janice Nga Lay Hui and Professor Dr. Chan Kim Lian.Dr. King, Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, has published extensively on tourism in ASEAN and the anthropology of Borneo.For more on the Borneo Tourism Research Centre, please visit their website.

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February 28, 2020
Read more about the article Kelley Co-Edits Journal Issue on Vietnam
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Kelley Co-Edits Journal Issue on Vietnam

Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.Entitled “The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies,” this special issue contains three papers from an annual multi-disciplinary conference on Vietnam called Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (EWV) that Dr. Kelley co-organizes with Dr. Phan Le Ha, Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE) and Director of the International and Comparative Education Research Group (ICE) at UBD.To date, the EWV has been held 11…

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February 27, 2020
Read more about the article Rommel Curaming on Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia
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Rommel Curaming on Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia

Dr. Rommel Curaming of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) sat down for a conversation at the Institute of Asian Studies at UBD about his new book, Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines (Routledge 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwx2gesOQiI

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February 27, 2020
Read more about the article Stephen Druce on the Mandala and Islam in South Sulawesi
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Stephen Druce on the Mandala and Islam in South Sulawesi

Dr. Stephen C. Druce of the Academy of Brunei Studies (APB/ABS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) sat down for a conversation at the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS @ UBD) about two recent talks that he gave: one on the relevance of the concept of the mandala for understanding the past in South Sulawesi and one on the history of Islam in South Sulawesi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxs3NSUwF8k&feature=youtu.be

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February 27, 2020
Read more about the article IAS Working Paper on Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia and Singapore
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IAS Working Paper on Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 53: Retracing the Political Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Career of a Concept by Lian Kwen Fee. Please see below for details. Abstract: In this paper, I trace the development of my work on race and ethnicity over my academic career, as a reflection in part of my biographical background. My interest in race and ethnic relations originated from my experience of the race riots in Kuala Lumpur on May 13th in 1969, subsequently grounded…

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February 24, 2020