On 14-15 May 2025, Dr. Ari Schriber (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, Utrecht University) and I co-organized a workshop entitled “Knowledge in Islamic Courts: Evidence, Proof, Procedure” at the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat. Through an open call, we gathered 13 participants from across various fields ranging from Islamic legal history and anthropology to …
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MALAYMATRIMONEY: Q1 Updates
As I elucidated in my previous post, Q1 was mostly about settling in as a resident (and taxpayer) of Norway. It is also about settling into UiB — joining the research community; getting to know other academics; and getting them to know me. Here’s what I’ve been up to since coming here: March 14-17 March: …
Mobility & MALAYMATRIMONEY
Three months have passed in Bergen since the launch of this project in March, which means that our first quarter is up. As always, the first few months after moving to a new country are always taken up by various administrative and bureaucratic processes of settling into a new country. How one’s identity and personhood …
About the project
MALAYMATRIMONEY: The Division of Matrimonial Wealth in Malay Polygyny & the Codification of Culture in Malaysian Islamic Family Law This project is a socio-legal study of the division of matrimonial wealth (harta sepencarian) in Shari’ah (Islamic) courts in contemporary Malaysia. Under Malaysian Islamic family law, matrimonial wealth can be claimed upon the death or divorce …
New Appointment: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen
I am pleased to announce that as of the 1st of March 2024, I have taken up my latest appointment as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Foreign Languages (Institutt for fremmedspråk), University of Bergen, Norway. I am one of four other Marie Curie fellows who will be conducting research in various …
Anthropologist on the Move: Academic Life, Nomadic Way
The Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) has just published an interview in their latest newsletter featuring yours truly. In this interview, I discuss what led me to become an anthropologist, my experiences as an early-career researcher, and the precarities of living as an academic nomad. The full interview can be read here.
Letter from the Kamogawa
I wrote a short essay on my academic journey from Kyoto to Perth, and what sparked my interest in sorcery and the supernatural for my current postdoctoral project at CSEAS, Kyoto University. The essay was published on CSEAS’s website here, accompanied by a splendid illustration by Atelier Epocha.
“Better Together”: Workshop on Gender in Contemporary Malaysia at CSEAS
On the 26th of July, I organized a workshop on gender entitled “Better Together: Female Alliance & Empowerment in Contemporary Malaysia”. This workshop draws on ethnographic data we have collected in contemporary Malaysia over the past three decades to explore Malay women’s empowerment in the home (marriage), at the workplace, and in higher education. We …
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CSEAS Gender Seminars with Professor Patricia Sloane-White
This summer, we have the pleasure of hosting Professor Patricia Sloane-White (Professor of Anthropology; Chair of Women & Gender Studies, University of Delaware) in two events in the CSEAS Gender Seminar Series 2023. These are organized in conjunction with the CSEAS Gender Equality Promotion Committee, with the support of the Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance …
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Masterclass – Doing Ethnography in Southeast Asia
On the 14th of July, I organized a Masterclass for graduate students at Kyoto University’s (including the Graduate School of Asia and Africa Area Studies, ASAFAS) with our special guest at CSEAS, Professor Patricia Sloane-White. In this event, we offer practical tips for conducting fieldwork in / researching on Southeast Asia, while also helping students …
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Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif 