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New IAS/Springer Volume on Brunei Darussalam

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, (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam: A Sociology of the Everyday edited by Lian Kwen Fee, Paul J. Carnegie and Noor Hasharina Hassan (IAS).This book has been made open access through the generous support of Universiti Brunei Darussalam. This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream…

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May 12, 2023

Announcements

Online Writing Workshop for Southeast Asian Early Career Social Science Researchers Studying Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is a region with diverse cultures and languages. Scholars based in Southeast Asia are relatively well-published in local journals in English and local languages. However, internationally recognised published research by Southeast Asian social science scholars who are based in the region is still limited. This is even more so for early career researchers (ECRs) who may lack the experience, exposure and confidence to disseminate their work to an international scholarly audience. At the same time, Southeast Asian ECRs based outside the region may also face challenges in publishing in internationally recognised journals due to language barriers. Moreover, the…

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May 9, 2023

Working Papers

Working Paper on Ethnographic Research on Religion in Cambodia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 72: Speaking for the Spirits: A Reflection on Knowledge, Expertise, and Methodology in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Religion by Lisa Arensen. Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: Our ways of representing the cosmological world are core issues in the reconfigured animism field in contemporary anthropology, as well as a recurring theme in the social sciences’ current interest in ontologies. This paper interrogates methodological questions of decisions regarding who to listen to as cosmological interlocuters in fieldwork, and…

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April 5, 2023

Seminar Series

Seminar on Smart City Development in Southeast Asia

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Urban Utopia or Pipe Dream: Examining Chinese Invested Smart City Development in Southeast Asia” by Assistant Professor Angela Tritto of IAS.For more information about the seminar, please see the flyer below.

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March 28, 2023

Publications

New Article on Documentation and Citizenship in Delhi

Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published an article entitled “Paper Struggles: Documents, Inscriptions, and Citizenship Negotiations in Delhi.”Published in the journal, City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, the article examines how certain documents, such as ration cards and voter IDs, play a role in establishing and validating claims of urban citizenship in DelhiHere is the full abstract:The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare…

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March 27, 2023

Seminar Series

Seminar on the State of Asian Studies

The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) recently held a joint FASS-IAS seminar on “State of Asian Studies: Trajectories and Recent Tendencies” by Professor David Ludden of New York University.Professor Ludden visited UBD to present a keynote at, and participate in, a FASS conference on “Fluvial Phenomena: Re-engaging Rivers in the Anthropocene.”For more information about the joint FASS-IAS seminar, please see the flyer below.

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March 8, 2023

Seminar Series

Seminar on Remittances and Development

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Rethinking the Remittances-Development Nexus: The Case of Sambas District, Indonesia” by Associate Professor Dr Fariastuti Djafar of Universitas Tanjungpura, Indonesia.For more information, please see the flyer below.

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February 24, 2023

Announcements

Position in Transregional Studies

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is advertising for the position of Assistant Professor in Transregional Studies.For more information, please visit this website (https://ubd.edu.bn/about/career-opportunities/academic-positions/) and then click on “Institute of Asian Studies.”The deadline to apply is 21 February 2023.

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January 18, 2023

Student News

IAS PhD Student Passes Qualifying Assessment

Institute of Asian Studies PhD student Duong Van Bien successfully passed his Qualifying Assessment. Bien defended his dissertation proposal before two outside assessors, Senior Professor Phan Le Ha (SHBIE/ICE) and Assistant Professor Lisa Arensen (IAS), his co-chairs, Associate Professors Liam C. Kelley and Hoon Chang Yau (IAS), and the graduate chair of IAS, Senior Assistant Prof, Koh Sin Yee. Congratulations Bien and best of luck in completing the dissertation!! For more information about Bien and some of the other graduate students at IAS, please see the section on graduate students in the latest IAS Newsletter (December 2022).

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January 16, 2023

Newsletter

IAS December 2022 Newsletter

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share its latest newsletter. Please click here to read about the activities of the Institute and the staff at IAS.

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January 13, 2023