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…
Engaging With Vietnam #12
Engaging With Vietnam is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 12th Engaging With Vietnam conference to be held 15-18 October 2020 in Brunei Darussalam.The conference theme is…
New Course: Southeast Asian History and Web Design
After spending years thinking about how to adapt what I do (teach History) in a way that can fit with the world that the Digital Revolution has created, I think…
More Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
My BA degree was in Russian language and literature. As an undergraduate student, I read thousands of pages of Russian novels (in English translation), and I loved every minute of…
The “Fringe History” Of Hà Văn Thùy, Cung Đình Thanh, Lương Kim Định and Lý Đông A
One of the first posts that I ever wrote for this blog was called “Hà Văn Thùy and Ancient Việt Races (Has the BBC Gone Mad?) [5 May 2010]. I…
On Being Southeast Asian and the Bankruptcy of Liberal Persuasion
The other day an article appeared in my Facebook feed called “Being South-East Asian.” It was written by historian, political scientist and public intellectual Farish Noor and published in the…
Chang’an News from Vietnam
I came across a Vietnamese newspaper from the late 1930s-early 1940s called the “Tràng An Báo.” This name is interesting. “Tràng An” is usually written now as “Trường An” and…
Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
I can’t read fiction anymore. When I was young, I found novels to be a great means to “travel” to places (both in the literal and figurative senses) that I…
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