Workshop on “Decolonialising Migration Studies?”

Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian Studies Koh Sin Yee co-organised a two-day workshop entitled “Decolonising Migration Studies?” with Professor Francis Collins (Waipapa Taumata Rau – University of Auckland) and Professor Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore).The workshop was held on 20-21 November 2023 at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. It included an open panel session where Dr Koh presented a paper.The workshop explored the relationship between colonialism and migration studies and addressed the future of the field in a time of intellectual decolonisation.

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Seminar on Publishing With Springer

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a joint seminar with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) on “Book Publishing With Springer” by Alex Westcott Campbell, Senior Editor at Springer Nature.IAS publishes with Springer a successful book series called “Asia in Transition.” For more information about this series, please visit the Springer website.For more information about Alex Westcott Campbell’s talk, please see the flyer below.

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New Chapter on Tianxia in Comparative Perspective

Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has recently published a chapter entitled “Tianxia as Anticosmopolitan and Protoracial: A Case Study of Late Imperial Vietnam” in a book entitled Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order that was edited by Roger T. Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, and Steven Y. H. Yang (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2023).“Tianxia/Thiên Hạ” is a very old concept in East Asia. It literally means “All Under Heaven,” and it is a term that was used to refer to such concepts as “the empire” or…

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Seminar on Electric Vehicles and Critical Materials Dependency

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Electric Vehicles and Critical Materials Dependency: A Geopolitical Analysis” by Associate Professor Dr. Bruno Jetin.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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IAS Working Paper on Women in Pramoedya Ananta Toer Novel

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 76: Women as Agents of Patriarchy in The Girl from the Coast (1991) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Dk Nur Hazirah Pg Hassani.Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl from The Coast (1991) is a novel about women’s struggles under Javanese patriarchy, highlighting the controversial culture of polygamy and ‘practice wives’ in colonial Indonesia.Previous studies of the novel have situated the character of The Girl as the victimised female under the Bendoro’s…

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) is offering postdoctoral fellowships. Applicants must apply to collaborate with a unit at UBD. The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) welcomes such collaboration.Specific information about the fellowships is available here.To apply to collaborate with IAS, please visit our staff page to find a researcher who matches your research interests (https://ias.ubd.edu.bn/ias-staff/), and contact that researcher to inform him/her of your intent.You can then submit your curriculum vitae, a research proposal, and a list of your published works through the online application system: https://forms.office.com/r/c4Ez0czj3i.Thank you for considering Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and the Institute of Asian Studies. We look…

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Seminar on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development of Kampong Ayer

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Climate Change the Sustainable Development of Kampong Ayer: Its History, People, and Environment” by Director of IAS Senior Assistant Professor Dk Dr. Noor Hasharina binti Pengiran Haji Hassan.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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Seminar on Growth and Precarity in Southeast Asia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a joint seminar with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) on “Less Poverty, More Precarity: Squaring the Circle of Southeast Asian Development” by Professor Jonathan Rigg of the University of Bristol.Professor Rigg visited UBD in September 2023 as an Eminent Visiting Professor by invitation of FASS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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IAS Working Paper on Methodological Approaches to the Study of Ethnic Identity

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 75: Identity Matters: Methodological Travails from Malaysia to Indonesia by Lian Kwen Fee.It is fitting that this landmark 75th working paper is written by Prof. Lian, as he has contributed extensively to the Institute since its founding just over a decade ago in 2012.Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: The politics of identity is central to the study of race and ethnicity. This paper considers the utility of several methodological approaches relevant to making sense of…

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Seminar on the Dusun in Brunei

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Who are the Dusun in Brunei? Representation and Deconstruction of an Ethnic Identity” by Professor Lian Kwen Fee of IAS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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