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2020
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
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Chandar Sundaram, Historian/educator/writer/editor |
09 Jan | |
| Panel |
Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow, Qian Liu, CAPI Associate, Hugh Stephens, CAPI Associate, Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair |
16 Jan | |
| Talk |
India and Its Neighbourhood |
Sujan R. Chinoy, Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India |
21 Jan |
| Panel |
Maneesha Deckha, UVic Law, Michele Martin, UVic Division of Medical Sciences, Réal Roy, UVic Biology, Feng Xu, UVic Political Science |
23 Jan | |
| Talk (UVic Pacific and Asian Studies' Lansdowne Lecture) |
China’s Mass Internment of Uyghurs: The Urgent Need for a Global Response |
Nury Turkel, lawyer and Uyghur rights advocate | 29 Jan |
| Talk | Nury Turkel, lawyer and Uyghur rights advocate | 30 Jan | |
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CAPI student interns; chaired by Marlea Clarke, UVic Political Science / CAPI Senior Fellow, Robyn Fila, CAPI Internship Manager |
04 Feb | |
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Talk |
Kaitlin Findlay, UVic History MA student / Landscapes of Injustice project, Mary Anne Vallianatos, UVic Law PhD student |
06 Feb |
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Talk |
Ly Anh Hoàng, Hanoi Law University (incoming QES-AS project scholar) |
13 Feb |
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Film screening and Q&A (Victoria Film Festival) |
Miki Dezaki, film director; hosted by Cody Poulton and Sujin Lee, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies / CAPI Associates |
15 Feb |
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Talk |
Charles Krusekopf, American Center for Mongolian Studies / Royal Roads University |
26 Feb |
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Talk |
Vandanet Hing, Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law at the Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia (incoming QES-AS project scholar) |
27 Feb |
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Student presentations (UVic Ideafest) |
CAPI student interns: Kaylin Arason (Department of Gender Studies), Tracy Hampton (Department of Political Science), Olvie Li (Public Dimensions of Health), Maeve Milligan (Department of Pacific and Asian Studies), and Luisa Schwarz (Department of Geography) |
03 Mar |
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Talk |
Miki Dezaki, film director (via remote video-link), Sujin Lee, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Cody Poulton, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies |
05 Mar |
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Talk (online) |
Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Director and Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations / UVic Law professor |
05 May |
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Roundtable (closed to the public; online) |
Marilou McPhedran, Senate of Canada, Jacqueline O’Neill, Canadian Ambassador for Women, Peace, and Security, Bob Rae, Canadian Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues, Payam Akhavan, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague / McGill University / Counsel for The Gambia at the ICJ in the case of The Gambia v. Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Susan Breau, UVic Law Dean, Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics, Razia Sultana, Chairperson, Rohingya Women’s Welfare Society, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Wai Wai Nu, Rohingya/Burmese founder, Women’s Peace Network, Myanmar, and more |
21 May |
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Talk (online) |
Lynette J. Chua, National University of Singapore, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Kenyon College, USA |
18 June |
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Conference (online) |
Regulating Globalisation in Asia: Public Law, Legal Orders & Governance conference - Part II |
Twenty-four presenters from across eight countries, primarily representing UVic and Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (Bhutan) |
25-28 June |
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Talk (online) |
Ke Li, City University of New York, Qian Liu, UVic Law, Di Wang, University of Wisconson-Madison; Chair: Lynette J. Chua, National University of Singapore; Discussant: Rachel Stern, University of California, Berkeley |
09 July |
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Panel (online) |
Cora Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Michael John Lo, UVic Political Science student, Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair / UVic Political Science / UVic History |
17 Sept |
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Talk (online) |
Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow / former Canadian diplomat, Asad Kiyani, UVic Law |
24 Sept |
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Panel (online) |
Feng Xu, UVic Political Science, Qian Liu, UVic Law, Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Fellow, Dan Ciuriak, Centre for International Governance Innovation / C.D. Howe Institute, Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair / UVic Political Science / UVic History |
08 Oct |
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Talk (online) |
Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, Andrew Wender, UVic History / Political Science, Elizabeth Vibert, UVic History |
15 Oct |
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Panel (online) |
Colin Bennett, UVic Political Science, Susan Breau, UVic Law, Jill Horwitz, University of California Los Angeles, Michael Peil, Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan |
21 Oct |
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Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University, Japan, Jordan Stanger-Ross, UVic History | 22 Oct |
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Panel (online) |
Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch Asia, Anna Dzeidzic, The University of Hong Kong, Eugénie Mérieau, National University of Singapore |
28 Oct |
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Talk (online) |
Zehra Abrar, UVic Law graduate student, Namitha George, UVic Political science PhD student |
29 Oct |
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Talk (online) |
Manu Karuka, Barnard College, Heidi Stark, UVic Political Science, Jason Colby, UVic History |
05 Nov |
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Talk (Hung Lecture; online) |
Inderpal Grewal, Yale University |
12 Nov |
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Panel (Victoria Forum; online) |
Wen-Chen Chang, National Taiwan University College of Law, Melissa Low Yu Xing, National University of Singapore PhD student, Michael Peil, Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, Bhutan, Hugh Stephens, CAPI Associate |
13 Nov | |
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Roundtable (online) |
Nirmal Ghosh, The Straits Times, Ratana Ly, UVic Law PhD candidate, Kai Ostwald, UBC Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, Bridget Welsh, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute Malaysia |
19 Nov |
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2019
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
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Talk |
Amma's Daughters - A memoir |
Meenal Shrivastava, Athabasca University, Sikata Banerjee, UVic Gender Studies |
10 Jan |
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Talk |
Empire of Guns and the Industrial Revolution |
Priya Satia, Stanford University |
16 Jan |
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Talk |
Return from the brink: coral recovery on the Kiritimati Atoll following the 2015-2016 El Niño |
Kristina Tietjen, UVic Biology MSc student |
17 Jan |
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Talk |
The Huawei Case, Extradition & Canada-US-China Relations |
Asad Kiyani, UVic Law, Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow |
24 Jan |
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Talk |
Security, Terror and Colonial Modernity |
Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina; Discussants: Rachel Cleves, UVic History, Stephen Ross, UVic English |
31 Jan |
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Film screening (Victoria Film Festival) |
"Dead Pigs" |
Cathy Yan, Director |
4 & 6 Feb |
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Film screening (Victoria Film Festival) |
"Ramen Shop" |
Eric Khoo, Director |
5 Feb |
| Talk |
Looking at Japanese North American confinement during WWII |
Greg Robinson, l’Université du Québec À Montréal | 28 Feb |
| Talk |
Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance |
Daromir Rudnyckyj, UVic Anthropology; Respondents: Greg Blue, UVic History (Emeritus), Neilesh Bose, CAPI Senior Research Fellow / UVic History |
04 Mar |
| Talk |
The Collection of Indian paintings at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France |
Dhir Sarangi, Jawarhalal Nehru University |
06 Mar |
| Student presentations (UVic Ideafest) |
Crossing borders: Students’ stories from the field |
CAPI student interns: Mikaela Chia (UVic Biology and Psychology), Jacob Derksen (UVic Anthropology), Clara Harding (UVic Anthropology), Nick Harrison (UVic Political Science), Courtenay Jacklin (UVic Law), Rachel Lynch (UVic Economics), and Chris Tse (UVic Social Work) | 06 Mar |
| Panel |
China in Africa: Development Partner or the New Imperialist? |
Jesse Ovadia, University of Windsor, Yoon Jung Park, China*Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University |
14 Mar |
| Panel |
Covering the Trump administration through an Asian lens |
Nirmal Ghosh, The Straits Times' US Bureau Chief, Patrick Brown, former CBC foreign correspondent, Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow and former Canadian Ambassador | 20 Mar |
| Roundtable |
The South China Sea: What is Now and What is Next |
Nirmal Ghosh, The Straits Times, Nong Hong, Institute for China-America Studies, Ted L McDorman, UVic Law, Giles Norman, Global Affairs Canada, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University (via videoconference), Jeff Reeves, Asia Pacific Foundation, Brett Witthoeft, Maritime Forces Pacific, Canada | 21 Mar |
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Thailand's Election |
Songkrant Pongboonjun, UVic Law PhD student / QES-AS incoming scholar, Kitpatchara Somanawat, Chiang Mai University, Thailand (via video-link); Chair: Lindsay Neilson |
28 Mar |
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Talk |
Growth and Poverty Under Neo-liberalism |
Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
28 Mar |
| Panel |
A Theory of Imperialism |
Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Commentators: Jutta Gutberlet, UVic Geography, and William Carroll, UVic Sociology | 29 Mar |
| Talk |
Democratization, governance, and reform in complex political environments |
Tunku Zain Al-’Abidin, President of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, Malaysia | 10 April |
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Plight of the Relational Self: Injury, Law, and Modernity in Thailand and the United States |
David M. Engel, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo | 11 April |
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Learning to "see" today's caste |
Ramesh Bairy T. S., professor of sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | 18 April |
| Conference |
Bridging the Pacific: Connections and Comparisons between East Asia and North America |
Organized by Zhonping Chen, UVic History | 28-30 April |
| Panel |
One Hundred Years of China’s Awakening: The Current Relevance of May Fourth in Multiple Perspectives |
Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair / UVic History and Political Science, Zhongping Chen, UVic History, Angie Chau, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Richard King, former CAPI Director/UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Greg Blue, UVic History emeritus, Qian Liu, UVic Law PhD student; Discussant: Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow | 2 May |
| Book launch |
A Woman in Between: Searching for Dr. Victoria Chung |
John Price, UVic History, Ningping Yu, Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University | 24 May |
| Workshop (Hanoi, Vietnam) |
Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Change Regulation: Asian Approaches |
Organized by Supryia Routh, UVic Law; see participants via the event listing | 4 June |
| Talk |
China’s State-Centric Corporate Social Responsibility Approach and Green Finance Development Overseas: Linkages and Promises Demonstrated in Kenya |
Bingyu Liu, visiting scholar at Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China | 6 June |
| Conference (Thimphu, Bhutan) |
Conference on Public Law, Legal Orders, and Governance |
Organized by Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Director, and Nima Dorji, UVic PhD student and lecturer, Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law | 17-19 July |
| Conference |
Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education |
Coordinated by Hiroko Noro, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies | 6-7 Aug |
| Talk |
Revisiting Feminist Ideals of Autonomy in Marriage Through an Asian Lens |
Qian Liu, PhD student, UVic Law | 9 Sept |
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Demise of “One Country, Two Systems”? Reflections on the Hong Kong Rendition Saga |
Cora Chan, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (via video-link) | 12 Sept |
| Performance |
An evening of Japanese Noh Theatre with Hisa and Hikaru Uzawa |
Hisa and Hikaru Uzawa, Noh performers | 19 Sept |
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Talk |
The Kelsen-Schmitt Debate and the Use of Emergency Powers in Political Crises in Thailand |
Rawin Leelapatana, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
26 Sept |
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Talk |
Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and revocation of Kashmir’s autonomy |
Reeta Tremblay, UVic Political Science, Zehra Abrar, UVic Law graduate student |
3 Oct |
| Book launch |
Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories |
Rita Dhamoon, UVic Political Science, Davina Bhandar, Political Science, Athabasca University; Commentator: Reeta Tremblay, UVic Political Science | 10 Oct |
| Talk |
Self- and Social Recognition & Japanese Canadian Women’s Histories |
Mona Oikawa, Department of Equity Studies, York University | 15 Oct |
| Roundtable |
Financial Innovation, Systemic Risk & Climate Crisis in Asia |
Meyer Aaron, CEO, Capital Advisory Inc, Ravipal Bains, McMillan LLP, Adhiti Gupta, Convergence Blended Finance, Toronto, Daromir Rudnyckyj, UVic Anthropology, Christian Hofmann, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore | 17 Oct |
| Panel |
US-China Trade Wars in Multiple Perspectives |
Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow, Linda Hui Shi, UVic Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, Michael Webb, UVic Political Science, Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair/UVic History and Political Science | 24 Oct |
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Japanese Exclusion, Labour, and Environment in the BC Salmon Fisheries, 1900-1930 |
Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern BC History, Haily Massingham, UVic Law student | 28 Oct |
| Talk |
Underdevelopment in rural China: Measuring the legacy of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward policies (1959-61) |
Elizabeth Gooch, assistant professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California | 31 Oct |
| Film screening / discussion |
“The World Before Her” |
Sikata Banerjee, UVic Gender Studies, Jyoti Ahlawat, Post Doc, UVic Gender Studies | 4 Nov |
| Talk |
Open source software practices in large Chinese internet companies |
David Lo, Information Systems, Singapore Management University | 7 Nov |
| Performance |
Demonstration of the Japanese “tea ceremony” (cha-no-yu) |
Urasenke Tankōkai Victoria Association | 18 Nov |
| Panel |
Development and Entrepreneurship in the Global South |
Shahinaz Rashad, Financial & Sustainable Development Advisor, Sudhir Nair, UVic Gustavson School of Business | 21 Nov |
| Roundtable |
Southeast Asia: Recent Trends and Perspectives |
Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow, Susan Gregson, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, UOttawa, Helen Lansdowne, CAPI Associate Director, Mellisa Marschke, International Development and Global Studies, UOttawa, Kai Ostwald, Centre for Southeast Asia Research / Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC, Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Director | 29 Nov |
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Cod Tongue: A Romance |
Andrew Loman, Associate Professor of English, Memorial University | 5 Dec |
2018
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
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Talk |
Qian Liu, PhD candidate, UVic Law |
08 Feb |
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Talk |
CAPI Visiting Professor Dr. Cody Poulton |
01 Feb |
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Talk |
Dr. Jutta Gutberlet, Professor, & Dr. Sayed M. Nazim Uddin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Community-based Research Laboratory, UVic Department of Geography |
01 Mar |
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2017
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Roundtable |
Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow, Gordon Houlden, University of Alberta, Ted McDorman, UVic Law, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, University of Washington, Cindy Termorshuizen, Embassy of Canada to China, Brett Witthoeft, Maritime Forces Pacific, James Boutilier, Maritime Forces Pacific; Chair: Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Law Chair |
02 Feb | |
| Talk |
Offshore Extractions and the Everyday Life of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru |
Julia Morris, PhD Candidate, Oxford University |
07 Feb |
| Film (Victoria Film Festival) |
Director: Johnny Ma |
07 Feb | |
| Film (Victoria Film Festival) |
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda |
10 Feb | |
| Talk | Amplifying Local Community Voices: Accountability in International Development Finance | Siddharth Akali, UVic JD Law grad, Consultant for Accountability Counsel, a San-Francisco based NGO | 27 Feb |
| Talk |
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal |
28 Feb | |
| Student presentations |
Emma De Vynck |
08 March | |
| Talk |
More Than Waste: Participatory Action Research With Waste Pickers in the Global South |
Jutta Gutberlet, UVic Geography |
13 March |
| Talk |
Ivan Somlai, CAPI Associate and Director, Ethnobureaucratica |
14 March | |
| Ayukawa lecture |
Roy Miki, Simon Fraser University (Emeritus) |
29 March | |
| Symposium | En-gendering Social Transformation in China: Gender Dynamics, Women's Rights and Feminist Activism | Keynote: Feng Yuan, Shantou University | 07-08 April |
| Talk | Re-Classing Women’s Bodies: Workers’ Lives Beyond the Religion/ Secularism Duality | Dina Siddiqi, BRAC University, Dhaka | 18 April |
| Roundtable |
Ethnic Conflict and Peace-Building in Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis and Beyond |
19 April | |
| Workshop | Multimedia, Mobility & The Digital Southeast Asian Family | A workshop organized by postdoctoral fellow Monika Winarnita in Melbourne Australia in April 2017 was a second major knowledge mobilization activity run within the project. Dr Winarnita invited stakeholders, junior scholars and project researchers to a two-day workshop entitled ‘Multimedia, Mobility and the Digital Southeast Asian Family’. In addition, a Master Class held at the same time, headed by project collaborator Deirdre McKay, explored research methods and approaches to digital research and transnational families. This highly successful event brought together 20 participants and 20 observers for two days, where a rich set of ideas around multimedia and mobility were explored. |
20-21 April |
| Conference, including Hung lecture | CARFMS17 – Forgotten Corridors: Global Displacement & the Politics of Engagement | keynote speakers, Sheila Watt-Cloutier presenting her talk, “We Must Now Speak Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Health and Human Rights in the Same Breath”, Jyoti Sanghera addressing “Dying to Live” and Romola Sanyal speaking to “Making Lives Invisible: Managing Refugees Outside the West”; two plenary sessions, one discussing the role of civil society and forced migration, the other on recent developments in Canadian Refugee Law; more than 75 panels and workshops |
15-18 May |
| Talk | SOE Reform in China | Bo Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
28 June |
| Talks |
Competition Law & the Possibility of Private Transnational Governance /
Chinese & Western Oil Companies in Nigeria: Home State Factors and the Anti-Corruption Imperative
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Thanh Phan, PhD candidate, UVic Law / |
05 Oct |
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Right to Good Governance in India: Towards a Model of Citizen Centric Accountability
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Yashomati Ghosh, National Law School of India University |
12 Oct |
| Talks |
Imported Pekalongan Batik: Emblems of Cosmopolitanism in Imagined Communities of Straits Peranakan Women /
An Introduction to the Constitution of Bhutan
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Su Yen Chong, master's student, UVic Fine Arts / Nima Dorji, PhD student, UVic Law |
02 Nov |
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India at 70: Assessing constitutional democracy in India on the 70th anniversary of its Independence
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Arun K. Thiruvengadam, Azim Premji University |
16 Nov |
| Burton lecture |
What’s in a Name? Overcoming Exclusions in the Stories We Tell |
Timothy J. Stanley Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies and Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa |
20 Nov |
2016
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Talk |
Dancing the Feminine: Gender and Identity Perfomances by Indonesian Migrant Women |
Monika Winarnita, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UVic |
21 Jan |
| Talk |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair |
03 Feb | |
| Seminar |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair |
05 Feb | |
| Film (Victoria Film Festival) |
John Choi and Nicolina Lanni, filmmakers |
11 & 13 Feb | |
| Talk |
Jessica Ball, UVic School of Child and Youth Care |
02 March | |
| Panel (Ayukawa lecture) |
Thinking Women – The Life and Work of Michiko ‘Midge’ Ayukawa (1930-2013) |
John Price, UVic History, Patricia Roy, UVic History, Christine St. Peter, UVic Gender Studies, Hiroko Noro, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Patti Ayukawa, family member
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08 March |
| Performance |
Breaking Down the Fence: Exploring Refugee Advocacy Through Applied Theatre |
Taiwo Afolabi, UVic Applied Theatre graduate student + classmates |
08 March |
| Talk (Burton lecture) |
Larry Grant, Elder-in-Residence, First Nations House of Learning, UBC, and Language and cultural consultant, Musqueam Nation |
21 March | |
| Talk |
Tatiana Degai, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona |
24 March | |
| Talk |
The Transnational Corporate Lawyers of Dubai, Jakarta and Singapore |
Jeremy Kingsley, Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore |
29 March |
| Talk |
Religious Authority and Local Governance in Eastern Indonesia – An Abode of Islam |
Jeremy Kingsley, Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore |
30 March |
| Seminar |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair |
31 March | |
| Talk |
Greg Constantine, documentary photojournalist |
11 Apr | |
| Talk |
Made in China: Legacies of the Unequal Treaties in International Law |
Andrew Marton, CAPI Director |
16 Oct |
| Talk |
Nile Green, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles |
27 Oct | |
| Roundtable |
Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, Phil Calvert, former Canadian Ambassador to Thailand, Catherine Morris, UVic Faculty of Law |
08 Nov | |
| Talk |
Smriti Srinivas, University of California, Davis |
17 Nov | |
| Talk |
Uwe Makino, Chuo University, Tokyo |
22 Nov | |
| Talk |
Workers in the Aging city: Eldercare labor markets in Vancouver and Shanghai |
Feng Xu, UVic Political Science |
01 Dec |
2015
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Film screening |
Adam Smith, filmmaker |
19 Jan | |
| Film screening |
France Benoit, filmmaker |
02 Feb | |
| Student presentations |
Former CAPI student interns Elsie Daoust, UVic political science and history student, and Kip Jorgensen, UVic political science student |
03 Feb | |
| Burton lecture |
Timothy Brook, Republic of |
23 Feb | |
| Performance, presentations, and open house |
Satomi Edwards, Koto master, Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair, Natasha Fox, CAPI, Grace Wong Sneddon, UVic interdisciplinary PhD student and special adviser to the Provost on equity and diversity, Cate Lawrence, UVic dispute resolution master’s student, Elena Lopez, UVic BA, political science |
03 March | |
| Conference |
Keynote panellists: Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Professor at Georgetown University and University of California Irvine, I. Bobby Majumder, Parter, Perkins Coie, Dallas, USA, Eduardo Ramos-Gómez, Partner, Duane Morris & Selvam LLP, Singapore, Annabel Short, Program Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, New York, Yuen Pau Woo, President, HQ Vancouver, Canada |
15-18 April | |
| Panel |
Panellists: Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair, Joel Legassie, UVic PhD candidate in the department of History, Simon Nantais, Simon Fraser University, Masako Iino, Tsuda College, Tokyo, Marvin Sterling, Indiana University, Bloomington |
29 April | |
| Talk |
Antje Missbach, Monash University |
08 June | |
| Conference, including Hung lecture |
Migration and Late Capitalism: Critical Intersections with the Asia-Pacific and Beyond |
Keynote speakers: Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori, University of Waikato (Hung lecture), Tings Chak, Multidisciplinary Artist and Activist, and Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences | 11-13 June |
| Workshop |
Keynote speakers: Paul Vaaler, University of Minnesota, Ying-Yi Hong, Nanyang Technological University, John Berry, Queen's University, Canada, and National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia |
08 Aug | |
| Conference |
Keynote speaker: Zhou Shaochuan, professor at the School of Chinese Ancient Books and Traditional Culture; director of the Chenyuan Research Center; and researcher at the Center for Studies of Historical Theory & Historiogrphy, Beijing Normal University |
17-19 Aug | |
| Talk |
Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Thailand's Ambassador to Canada |
21 Sept | |
| Panel |
The Global Refugee Crisis: Local International and International Responses
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Panellists: J. Donald C. Galloway, UVic Law and co-chair of the Legal Research Committee of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, Scott Watson, UVic Political Science, Amy Verdun, UVic Political Science, Sabine Lehr, Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, Almontaser Aidhy and Maher Boidany, students at UVic sponsored by the UVic World University Services Canada resettlement program; Moderator: Feng Xu, UVic Political Science |
23 Sept |
| Conference |
Keynote speakers: Brian Havel, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Alan K.J. Tan, National University of Singapore Law School, Jeffrey Goh, Chief Operating Officer of Star Alliance |
08-09 Oct | |
| Talk |
Theatre of Power: China's Party Congress and Authoritarian Legitization |
Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair and Professor with UVic's Departments of Political Science and History |
19 Oct |
| Panel |
Eleanor Westney, Aalto University School of Business and the Schulich School of Business at York University, Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair, Gary Knight, Willamette University, Masao Nakamura, University of British Columbia, Tom Roehl, Western Washington University |
29 Oct | |
| Seminar |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair |
06 Nov | |
| Talk |
Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, and Professor of Law, UVic Faculty of Law |
18 Nov | |
| Book launch |
Authors Ann-Lee & Gordon Switzer and Michael Kluckner |
23 Nov | |
| Film screening |
Fandry (directed by Nagraj Manjule) |
Discussion moderator: Visiting scholar Bindu Menon, Assistant Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi |
26 Nov |
| Talk |
Yong Wang, Visiting Professor, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, and Professor, School of International Studies and Director, Center for International Political Economy, Peking University |
01 Dec | |
| Seminar |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair |
03 Dec |
2014
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Film screening |
Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and media activist |
21 Jan | |
| Talk |
Ivan Somlai, Director of Global Collaboration and CAPI Associate |
22 Jan | |
| Talk |
Simon Springer, UVic Department of Geography |
03 Feb | |
| Talk |
Jeremy Bally, UVic Alumnus, Geoff Clark, filmmaker, and Todd Biederman, Pacific Peoples Partnership |
14 Feb | |
| Talk (Burton lecture) |
Shark Truth: Bridging the Worlds of Culture and Environmentalism |
Claudia Li, founder of Shark Truth and co-founder of the Hua Foundation |
26 Feb |
| Presentation |
Stories from the Field - Experiential Learning Opportunities in Asia |
past participants of the CAPI internship porgram shared stories and experiences about their placements in Bangladesh and the Philippines working with migrants' rights organizations | 04 March |
| Panel |
Fallout from Fukushima: Nuclear Energy, Political Positioning, Civil Society and Social Consequences |
Scott Aalgaard, PhD Student, University of Chicago, Jay Cullen, UVic Department of Earth and Ocean Science, Katsuhiko Endo, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Chris Garrett, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Physics, UVic | 11 March |
| Talk |
Ian G. Baird, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison |
14 March | |
| Panel |
Panellists: Sikata Banerjee, Associate Dean, UVic Humanities and Professor of Women’s Studies, Sudhir Nair, Assistant Professor, UVic Gustavson School of Business and Richa Sharma, PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health, UBC. The panel was moderated by Reeta Tremblay, Vice-President Academic and Provost. |
22 May | |
| Master class |
Led by Jennifer Hirsch, Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York, and Heather Horst, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne. |
27-29 May | |
| Panel |
Patrick Brown, former CBC Asia Bureau Chief, and Rowena He, Author and Scholar |
30 May | |
| Conference |
Keynotes (see conference program for full list of speakers and participants): Dr. Geoff Wade, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Liu Yingsheng, Nanjing University, China, and Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, Canada |
22-24 Aug | |
| Talk |
Language and transposition in film representations of the dis/located Chinese migrant |
Hilary Chung, University of Auckland |
29 Oct |
| Panel |
Japan Breaks the Peace Clause: Article 9 and Japan’s Evolving Relationship With the Asian Other |
Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Law Chair, Shigenori Matsui, Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, UBC, Millie Creighton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UBC, Tsuyoshi Kawasaki, Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Simon Fraser University; Chair: Mary Yoko Brannen, CAPI Japan Chair |
05 Nov |
| Talk |
Ivan G. Somlai, Director of Global Collaboration and CAPI Associate |
19 Nov | |
| Talk (Ayukawa Lecture) |
Discovering the Past: Storytelling to Reveal Japanese Canadian History, Traditions and Culture |
Terry Watada, poet, novelist and social activist |
03 Dec |
2013
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Talk (Neil Burton lecture) |
Neil Burton and the Historic Debate on China’s Future: Echoes from the Past and Present |
Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison | 24 Jan |
| Talk | Julia Baum, UVic Department of Biology | 06 Feb | |
| Forum |
International Organizational Network Annual Forum |
CAPI Jarislowsky East Asia (Japan) Chiar Mary Yoko Brannen convened the annual meeting of the International Organization Network, a group of prominent cross-cultural management educators and scholars from around the world. The meeting comprised over 40 participants from around the globe, as well as CAPI associates, UVic graduate students and other members of the UVic community. The public portion of the program included three research panels: Migration, Mobility and Integration, Knowledge-Sharing and Networks, and Asia-Pacific Contexts. | 21-22 Feb |
| Info session |
Work and Study Opportunities in Asia |
To celebrate UVic’s IdeaFest, CAPI held an interactive event for students interested in working or studying in Asia. Former CAPI interns, George Benson and Adam Tran participated. | 06 March |
| Talk |
Chinghis Khan's Quest for Security: Tribe, State and Empire |
Robert Bedeski, UVic Political Science | 12 March |
| Symposium | Wayne Patterson, Norbert College, WI (keynote), Yeon-Ho Choi, The Consul General of the Republic of Korea, Mi Park, Dalhousie University, Jiyoung Song, Singapore Management University, Timothy C. Lim, California State University, Bonggi Sohn, University of British Columbia, Seonok Lee, University of British Columbi, Sandra Fahy, University of Southern California & Sophia University, Tokyo, Sophia Woodmoon, University of British Columbia, Young Hoon Song, Seoul National University, Chanhyun Cho, 番茄社区, Alice Lee, Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution, Vancouver, Jeewon Min, CAPI Visiting Law Scholar |
5-6 April | |
| Conference | Scholars, graduate students and community activists from across Canada gathered to discuss the future of Asian Canadian studies. Special guests included: Joy Kogawa, author of Obasan, Elaine H. Kim, coordinator, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Henry Yu, Asian Canadian Studies, UBC, Mary Kitagawa, Asian Canadian community leader, Eric Fong, Asian Canadian Studies, University of Toronto, Charlayne Thornton-Joe, Victoria City Councilor | 1-2 June | |
| Conference, including Hung lecture | Minxin Pei, Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College (Hung lecture), Xiaonong Cheng, Center for Modern China Studies, Princeton, Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University, Chongyi Feng, University of Technology, Australia, and Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Szu-Chien Hsu, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Ting Jiang, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Yiji Lu, ChangCe Think Tank, Beijing, Yang Su, University of California, Irvine, Hongying Wang, University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada, Guoguang Wu, 番茄社区, Ming Xia, City University of New York, Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, New York, Patrick Brown, former CBC Asia Bureau Chief |
27-28 Sept | |
| Book launch and talk | Grant Hayter-Menzies, Author |
09 Oct | |
| Book launch and talk |
Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada |
Vivienne Poy, businesswoman, author and former member of the Senate of Canada | 10 Oct |
| Book launch and talk | Anne Park Shannon, CAPI Associate and former Canadian diplomat | 29 Oct | |
| Workshop | Sharmin Ahmed, visiting Graduate Researcher from BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jamie Lawson and Marlea Clarke, UVic Department of Political Science, Josh Ault, UVic Gustavson School of Business, Laura Parisi, UVic Department of Women's Studies, David Huxtable, PhD Fellow, UVic Centre for Global Studies | 06 Nov | |
| Talk |
New Boss Same as the Old Boss? China's New Generation of Leaders Settles In |
Patrick Brown, former CBC Asia Bureau Chief | 20 Nov |
| Performance |
ON TRIAL! The Panama Maru in Victoria: Performing a Hundred Year Retrospective |
John Price, UVic History, led a group of students for a creative re-enactment of the trial of the Indian passengers aboard the Panama Maru, who were seeking to settle in Canada |
24 Nov |
2012
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Talk (Neil Burton lecture) |
Living with Hiroshima: My Memories of 66 Years |
Koko Tanimoto Kondo, writer, speaker, educator, and survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima | 31 Jan |
| Talk |
The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds |
Grant Hayter-Menzies, Author of Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling | 08 Feb |
| Talk |
Freedom in Entangled Worlds |
Eben Kirksey, post-doctoral fellow at the City University of New York Graduate Center | 20 Feb |
| Student Symposium |
CAPI Student Symposium on the Asia-Pacific |
Six graduate students presented their work on a diverse range of subjects from the Beijing Olympics to indigenous writing in Indonesia and Australia: John Yehambaram, Galen Poor, Erin Lofting, Alicia Lawrence, Ruji Auethavornpipat, and Yuanfang Zhang, all MA students with UVic's Department of Pacific and Asian Studies |
24 Feb |
| Symposium |
70th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Uprooting: Reconciling a Difficult Past |
This commemorative anniversary event discussed the difficult past of Japanese Canadians and honoured elders from the Japanese community. The event was sponsored by the UVic Asian Canadian Working Group, the Social Justice Program, the Department of History and the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. | 24 Feb |
| Talk and film screening |
You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello! Robots, Theatre and the Future of Humanity |
Zaven Paré, Brazil-based electronics artist and robotics researcher, and Cody Poulton, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies | 28 Feb |
| Talk |
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China |
Feng Xu, UVic Department of Political Science | 6 March |
| Open house |
CAPI Open House and Photo Exhibit as part of UVic's Ideafest event |
7 March | |
| Talk |
Revolution in Post-Red Bengal: Informal Workers Fight Back |
Supriya Roth, Ph.D. Candidate, UVic Faculty of Law | 19 March |
| Symposium |
Progress in Technology - Educational and Social Changes |
Madhumita Bhattacharya, Athabasca University, Canada, and CAPI Japan Program Visiting Scholar, Satoru Fujitani, Department of Childhood Education and Welfare, Faculty of Human Science, Mejiro University, Japan, Kanji Akahori, Faculty of Education at Hakuoh University and emeritus professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology | 28 March |
| Conference |
Innovations in Learning and Technology: |
Hiroshi Kato (keynote), The Open University of Japan, Shelley Young, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Susan Kelly, University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji, Madhulika Kaushik, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada, Alan Pence, UVic School of Child and Youth Care, Mahnaz Moallem, University of North Carolina, Valerie Irvine, UVic Faculty of Education, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, Robert Aucoin, University of British Columbia and Royal Roads University, Haim Michael, Tel Aviv Jaffa Academic College, Israel, Beatriz Pacheco and Eliani Kfouri, Computing School - Mackenzie and Design School - SENAC, Brazil, Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram, Anna University, India, Siew Mee Barton, Deakin University, Australia, Suhaimi Abd Latif, International Islamic University, Malaysia, Mahnaz Moallem, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Nada Mach, California State University, Madhumita Bhattacharya, Athabasca University and CAPI Japan Program Visiting Scholar, Virginia Vandall-Walker, Athabasca University, Rita Santillan, University of BC and Simon Fraser University, Canada, Hengameh Kermani, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Yayoi Anzai, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. | 10-11 April |
|
Talk and Performance |
Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo: Traditional Japanese Puppet Theatre |
The Koryu Nishikawa Troupe | 02 May |
| Workshop |
Workshop on Post-311 Challenges and Opportunities: Gender and Diversity |
Jackie F. Steele, CAPI Visiting Japan Chair and Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Hiroko Hara, Mari Osawa and Kumiko Hagiwara, University of Tokyo, Sunhee Lee, Tohoku University, Yoshi Kawasaki, Simon Fraser University, Millie Creighton, David Edgington and Shigenori Matsui, University of British Columbia, Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa, Sikata Banerjee and Natasha Fox, 番茄社区 |
10-11 June |
| Talk (Hung lecture) |
Histories and Competitive Societies: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory |
Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, Director of the Asia Research Institute, and Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore |
02 Aug |
| Open house |
Open House for UVic’s 50th Anniversary |
Presentations by former CAPI interns Mikaela Robertson, Kelly Lindsay and Haydn Shook, and our incoming Bangladeshi intern, Mahmadul Haque | 29 Sept |
| Talk |
Mongolia, Mining and Unavoidable Issues |
Ivan G. Somlai, CAPI Associate and Director of Global Collaboration | 17 Oct |
| Talk |
Reflections on an Indian Variant of Liberalism |
Rinku Lamba, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and Visiting Fellow at CAPI and UVic's Centre for Studies in Religion and Society | 01 Nov |
| Talk |
Work Culture and Business Manners in East Asia |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair and Professor at the Gustavson School of Business, UVic |
05 Nov |
| Symposium |
The Nanjing Massacre: 75 Years On |
Presenters included: Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair, Katsuhiko Endo, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Hugh Stephens, Time Warner, Richard King, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Tim Isles, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Bob Wakabayashi, York University, Timothy Brook, UBC, Greg Blue, UVic Department of History, John Price, UVic Department of History, Joy Kogawa, Author, and Joseph Wong, doctor and social activist. | 16-17 Nov |
| Symposium |
The Governance of Religious Diversity in China, India and Canada: An International Symposium |
Presenters included: Jeremy Webber, UVic Faculty of Law (keynote), Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India, David Seljak, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, André Laliberté, Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Sikata Banerjee, Associate Dean of Humanities, Department of Women's Studies, 番茄社区, Jianping Wang, Professor of Islamic Studies; Chair, Religious Studies program; Vice Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Shanghai Normal University, Sushmita Nath, School of Social Sciences, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science at the 番茄社区, Benjamin Berger, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Ontario, Matthew Riddett, PhD Candidate, Political Science, 番茄社区, | 22-24 Nov |
2011
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
| Talk |
The Search for Perfect Paper: Constitutions and Political Division in Thailand |
Andrew Harding, UVic Professor of Law and Director, CAPI | 25 Jan |
| Talk |
Exploring Religion and Religious Policy in China |
Liu Peng, Director, Pushi Institute for Social Science, Beijing, China | 09 Feb |
| Showcase |
Global Engagement Showcase |
CAPI and the Pacific Peoples’ Partnership hosted a showcase in recognition of International Development Week. Local organizations and student groups inspired awareness and participation in the global movement for social change. Sponsored by the BC Council for International Cooperation, with funding support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). |
09 Feb |
| Talk |
Surfacing, Understanding and Leveraging the Hidden Strengths of Individuals with Multicultural Identities |
Mary Yoko Brannen, Visiting Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France | 02 March |
| Talk |
The Chinese Poster Digitization Project: Preserving Ephemera |
Richard King, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies | 07 March |
| Talk |
Nation-Building in Timor-Leste: The Unfinished Contribution of Timor-Leste’s Truth Commission |
Pat Walsh, consultant to the Post-CAVR Secretariat | 09 March |
| Student Symposium |
CAPI Student Symposium on the Asia-Pacific |
Natasha Fox, MA Candidate, Pacific and Asian Studies, Erin Lofting, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, Pacific and Asian Studies, Yuko Kameda, MA Candidate, Pacific and Asian Studies, Joel Legassie, PhD Candidate, History, Alicia Lawrence, MA Candidate, Pacific and Asian Studies, Randip Bakshi, MA Candidate, History in Art, Angela Wong, MA Candidate, Asia Pacific Policy Studies, Institute of Asian Research UBC, Jason Wolf, MA Candidate, Pacific and Asian Studies, Jing Qian, PhD Candidate, Law | 11 March |
| Talk | Engines of Growth and Change in the Canada-China Relationship | David Mulroney, Canada's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China | 17 March |
| Workshop | Japan’s Crisis Management: Extrovert and Introvert | Guoguang Wu, CAPI China Chair and professor, UVic History and UVic Political Science Departments, Go Ito, Department of Political Science, Meiji University, Japan, Robert Bedeski, UVic Political Science, Yoshi Kawasaki, Simon Fraser University | 25 March |
| Talk |
China’s Emerging Role in Global Economic Governance |
Wendy Dobson, Rotman School's Institute for International Business, University of Toronto | 30 March |
| Symposium |
BC China Scholars Symposium |
This multi-disciplinary event explored topics such as “What Can Linguistics Offer to Chinese Language Teachers?”; “Painting a Modern Society: Westernizing Art Education in 20th Century China”; “New Electronic Resources for Research on China”; “China in the World; the World in China”; and “Roundtable: China and the West – Thinking about the Other”. |
09 Apr |
| Workshop |
Law and Society in Malaysia: Pluralism, Islam and Development |
attended by 22 speakers from Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, UK, and Australia |
14-17 July |
| Talk |
Modern China's Network Revolution, Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century |
Zhongping Chen, UVic Department of History | 15 Sept |
| Talk |
Resources, Capabilities and the Contemporary Global Enterprise |
Gary Knight, College of Business, Florida State University | 07 Oct |
| Talk |
Merging without Alienating: A Mixed Method of Cross-Border Integration |
Mary-Yoko Brannen, CAPI Jarislowsky East Asia Chair and Professor at UVic's Gustavson School of Business | 12 Oct |
| Talk | Known Inhabited Worlds: Exploring "Ecumenes" as a Concept and Method for the Study of Regional and Global Processes | Christopher Morgan and Jason Wolf, graduate students, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | 26 Oct |
| Talk |
Fateful Complexity: Genesis of Unplanned Interconnectedness of Pakistan's Tribal Areas to Talibanisation and Other Conflicts |
Ivan G. Somlai, Director of Global Collaboration and CAPI Associate | 01 Nov |
| Talk |
Malling over Japan: Perspectives on Shopping Centre Development and Management |
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore | 03 Nov |
2010
| Type | Title | Speaker(s) | Date |
|
Research Forum |
Women, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change: Japan, Canada and Beyond watch |
Presenters included: Philippe Debroux, Faculty of Business, Soka University, Japan, Christienne Hinz, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Karen Hughes, School of Business and Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Judith Sayers, Hupacasath First Nation and UVic Faculties of Business and Law, Martha McMahon and Robin Tunnicliffe, UVic Department of Sociology, Ana Maria Peredo, UVic Faculty of Business, Aegean Leung, UVic Faculty of Business and CAPI Visiting Research Associate, Tim Craig, Doshisa University, Japan, Nicole Chaland, Simon Fraser University |
15 Jan |
| Talk | Can You Keep a Secret?: Challenges to AIDS Counselling and Treatment in Papua, Indonesia | Leslie Butt, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | 27 Jan |
| Talk |
Collateral Damage? The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights in Southeast Asia |
Annalee Lepp, UVic Department of Women's Studies | 10 Feb |
| CAPI Student Symposium | CAPI Student Symposium on the Asia-Pacific |
Presenters included: Gabriel Botel, MA student, Political Science, Nanchu He, PhD student, Political Science, Jing Qian, LLM student, Law, Tristan Evans, MA student, Political Science, Yuumi Noto, MA student, Pacific and Asian Studies, Catherine Zangger, PhD student, Sociology, Petch Manopawitr, PhD student, Geography, Kyoko Kaneko, MA student, Linguistics, Simon Nantais, PhD student, History, Chong Su Kim, MA student, Political Science, Nicole Evans, BA student, Pacific and Asian Studies, Yunyi Shao, BCom student, Business |
25 Feb |
| Talk |
Physical Aspects of the Coastal Environment in Hiroshima Bay |
Masayuki Nagao, Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, and Visiting Researcher, UVic School of Earth and Ocean Sciences | 03 March |
| Talk | Can the Hatoyama Government Keep a Balance Between the United States and China? | Go Ito, Department of Political Science, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan | 10 March |
| Talk |
"Death by a Thousand Cuts" and the Stereotype of “Chinese Cruelty” Prior to World War I |
Gregory Blue, UVic Department of History | 17 March |
| Roundtable |
Three Decades of Chinese SEZs [Special Economic Zones]: Old Roads and New Roads watch |
Zeng Huaqun, International Economic Law Institute, Xiamen University, China (keynote speaker), Connie Carter, Royal Roads University, Feng Xu, UVic Department of Political Science, Zhang Qianfan, Beijing University, Andrew Harding, CAPI Director and UVic Faculty of Law |
18 June |
|
Talk |
The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China |
Eric Enno Tamm, Journalist |
15 Sept |
|
Talk |
Bridging East and West: Potentials and Challenges for Japan as a Global Environmental Leader |
Anne McDonald, Founding Director United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies, Kanazawa, Japan |
04 Oct |
| Talk |
Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption and Human Rights: Multinational Corporations in China and Southeast Asia |
Robert Hanlon, Institute of Asian Research Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia Research Associate | 19 Oct |
| Talk |
Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming Issues in Malaysia |
Rashidah Shuib, Women’s Development Research Centre (KANITA), Universiti Sains Malaysia |
21 Oct |
|
Talk |
Child Abduction and Family Law in Japan: What comes next? |
Colin Jones, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan and CAPI Japan Program Visitor |
26 Oct |
|
Conference |
Human Security in China’s Foreign Relations |
Dai Qing, journalist and environmental activist, Robert Bedeski, UVic Political Science, Robert Hanlon, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Scott Watson, UVic Political Science, Joanna Lewis, Georgetown University, ZhongXiang Zhang and Junko Mochizuki, East-West Center, USA, Timothy Scolnick, UVic, Shelly Chan, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, David Kerr, Durham University, UK, Gaye Christofferson, Soka University, USA, Gabriel Botel, MA student, UVic Political Science, Richard King, UVic Pacific and Asian Studies, Jonathan Schwartz, State University of New York at New Paltz, Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University, USA, Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Akita International University, Japan, Feng Xu, UVic Political Science |
5-6 Nov |
|
Talk (Hung lecture) |
Celebrating Connections: On Being Indigenous and Human in Oceania |
Vilsoni Hereniko, playwright, film director and professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai'i | 12 Nov |
| Workshop |
Legal System Reform in Japan: A Brave New World? Juries, Law Schools and Administrative Litigation |
Shigenori Matsui, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Hiroshi Fukurai, Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Santa Cruz, Matthew Wilson, College of Law, University of Wyoming, Colin P.A. Jones, Law School, Doshisha University and CAPI Japan Program Visitor. |
19 Nov |
| Talk (Burton lecture) |
China's Workers Rising |
Cathy Walker, former National Health and Safety Director of the Canadian Auto Workers Union |
2 Dec |