Ooi Keat Gin, An Historical Encyclopedia of Southeast Asia, & the State of Southeast Asian Studies

In this video, Professor Victor T. King of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam continues his discussion with Professor Ooi Keat Gin, an historian in the School of Humanities at Universiti Sains Malaysia. They begin by talking about “Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor,” a work that Ooi Keat Gin edited and published in 2004.

Their discussion then goes on to cover the (declining) state of Southeast Asian Studies in the UK and Europe in the twenty first century.

 

Victor T. King on Tourism and Heritage in Southeast Asia (Part 2)

Here is the second part of a conversation with Victor. T. King about tourism and heritage and tourism in Southeast Asia.

Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). This video was made as part of a new “IAS @ UBD Conversations” video series. For those who don’t know, the Institute of Asian Studies is an Asian Studies research institute in Brunei.

For more on Victor T. King’s writings on tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia, feel free to visit Professor King’s staff page on the the IAS website.

 

Victor T. King on Tourism and Heritage in Southeast Asia

I recently had a talk with Professor Victor T. King about tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia.

Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies at The Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is trained as a cultural anthropologist and has been researching about Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Borneo, since the 1970s. Information about his scholarly writings on Borneo can be found here.

Victor began researching about tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia in the 1980s, and continues to research about that topic today. In this first video we talk about his interest in this topic, and his history of research, and in subsequent videos we talk more closely about some of the issues in the study of tourism and heritage in Southeast Asia.