FAB, UTM Blog

Dr Lai Chee Kien will be delivering a talk on Researching Southeast Asia. It is on Friday 27th September, 9am to 10:30am, at convention hall, B12. He is an assistant professor from Department of Architecture, NUS.   The synopsis of the talk is as follows: Southeast Asia, as an academic category, is a rather late one amongst various disciplines including space, landscape and architectural studies. Because of its relatively young and undeveloped circumstances since the post-war and Cold War era, its researchers and students tend to borrow or adapt methods and models from more established academic disciplines, and chiefly from Western models. In recent years, however, there is growing scholarship of the region not only by local but worldwide scholars who have advanced forthright, progressive and new strategies to structure or guide research work. In this talk, I try to trace and share some of these trajectories that we may consider in our own paths to research...

Short Course ELearning Application For New Undergraduate and Postgraduate 2013/2014-01 at Student ICT Server Center,Level 3,D07,Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,Skudai,Johor. From 23 September 2013 until 4 October 2013. Click here for schedule information http://fab.utm.my/blog/elearning-undergraduate-postgraduate/

Faculty of Built Environment’s Professor Amran Hamzah now serves on the Steering Committee of International Union for Conservation of Nature – Commission on Environmental, Economic & Social Policy (IUCN-CEESP) as the Co-Chair of the joint CEESP and World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Theme on Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Equity in Protected Areas (TILCEPA) for two years from January 2013-December 2014. He was personally appointed to the post by Aroha Te Pareake Mead,  Chair of the IUCN CEESP on June 18. As a member of the Steering Committees, Professor Amran Hamzah will share the role of Co-Chair with Dr. Nigel Crawhall of South Africa and Dr. Trisha Kehaulani Watson of Hawaii, USA. More...