Read more about the article Phan Lê Hà on Higher Education, English, and the Idea of ‘the West’
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Phan Lê Hà on Higher Education, English, and the Idea of ‘the West’

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

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April 6, 2019
Read more about the article Seminar on Vietnam as a “Royal Nation”
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Seminar on Vietnam as a “Royal Nation”

Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley will give a talk for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Seminar Series on “The Forgotten Role of the ‘Royal Nation’ of Vietnam.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

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March 12, 2019
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IAS Working Paper on Sri Lankan Muslim Returnees

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 46: Difficult Return: Muslims’ Ambivalent Attachments to Jaffna in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka by Dr. Diotima Chattoraj and Dr. Eva Gerharz. Please see below for details. Abstract: This article focuses on the experiences, aspirations, and challenges of Sri Lankan Muslim returnees to the northern part of Sri Lanka, Jaffna, and analyzes their strategies to cope with the ambivalent situation they face. The empirical point of departure is drawn from the stories of three Muslim returnees in Jaffna who returned from different…

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March 7, 2019
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Seminar on Rivers in India-Southeast Asia

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 March 2019, for a talk by Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal of FASS, UBD, on "The Range of the River: New Spacial Scale across Northeastern India and Mainland Southeast Asia, 1850-1950."For more information, please see the flyer below.

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March 4, 2019
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IAS Working Paper on Early British North Borneo

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No. 45: Stranger Kings and Strangers in an Asiatic Country: The Ambiguity of Human Relations in Early British North Borneo by Liam C. Kelley. Please see below for details. Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how it is that a small number of Europeans were able to extend their authority and control over the northern region of the island of Borneo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to establish a state known as British North Borneo, as well as…

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February 19, 2019
Read more about the article Seminar on Boni in Western Borneo
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Seminar on Boni in Western Borneo

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, for a talk by Dr. Johannes L. Kurz of FASS, UBD, on "Boni in Western Borneo."For more information, please see the flyer below.

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February 19, 2019
Read more about the article Seminar on the Internationalization of Higher Education
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Seminar on the Internationalization of Higher Education

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 February 2019, for a talk by Phan Le Ha, Senior Professor in SHBIE, on “Higher Education, English, and the idea of ‘the West’: Globalizing and Encountering a Global South Regional University.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

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February 11, 2019
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Professor Jérôme Samuel on Indonesian and Malaysian Languages

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

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February 10, 2019
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Bruno Jetin on the Asian Automobile Industry

IAS is pleased to announce a new publication by IAS Director Associate Professor Bruno Jetin on “Production Networks of the Asian Automobile Industry: Regional or Global?” in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management Vol.18 No.4 (2018): 302-328. DOI: 10.1504/IJATM.2018.097346For more information, please see the abstract below.

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February 9, 2019
Read more about the article Seminar on Humanitarian Crisis Response in the Philippines
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Seminar on Humanitarian Crisis Response in the Philippines

Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 February 2019, for a talk by Dr. Magne Knudsen on “‘Danger Zone’: Humanitarian Crisis Response, Disaster Governance and Class-Based Displacement in Tacloban City, Philippines.”For more information, please see the flyer below.

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February 4, 2019