The Story of Champaca Flowers
This latest installent of “Vietnamese Poetry 4.0” is of a poem by Phan Lê Hà entitled “Câu Chuyện Hoa Ngọc Lan/The Story of Champaca Flowers.”To find out what this poem…
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia
My colleague, historian Rommel Curaming of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), has recently published a new book entitled Power and Knowledge in…
Asia in European Visual Culture Mosque Architecture in Brunei
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Rui Oliveira Lopes, an art historian in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) about two recent…
Brunei in Chinese Historical Sources
Chinese sources have been important for the writing of Southeast Asian history. In the colonial period, for instance, several scholars turned to Chinese historical materials in an effort to try…
A Conversation about the Mandala and Islam in South Sulawesi
One of the many things that I like about my work is that there are several historians who I can learn from, and I get the pleasure of making video…