INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES (I.E.A.S.)
UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK
SEMINAR SERIES 2010
Dr. John Walker
(University of New South Wales @ the Australian Defence
Force Academy)
will speak on:
“Aspects of Architectural History in Sarawak under the
Brookes”
The talk will be held as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Time: 03.00 pm
Venue: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) Meeting Room,
(Old Campus)
Dr John Walker is a senior lecturer in Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Science
at the University of New South Wales @ the Australian Defence Force Academy.
He is the author of Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak (Sydney:
Allen and Unwin, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002) and the co-editor, with Minako
Sakai and Glenn Banks of (The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographic
Perspectives. Singapore: NUS Press, 2009).
Additionally he has published on precolonial Malay political culture and Sarawak history and
Society in Theory and Society, Modern Asian Studies, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian
Affairs, Australian Religion Studies Review, Borneo Research Bulletin, Sarawak Museum
Journal and Island.
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