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2020

Type Title Speaker(s) Date
Talk

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
Panel

CAPI student interns; chaired by Marlea Clarke, UVic Political Science / CAPI Senior Fellow, Robyn Fila, CAPI Internship Manager

04 Feb

Talk

Kaitlin Findlay, UVic History MA student / Landscapes of Injustice project, Mary Anne Vallianatos, UVic Law PhD student

06 Feb

Talk

Ly Anh Hoàng, Hanoi Law University (incoming QES-AS project scholar)

13 Feb

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

Talk

Charles Krusekopf, American Center for Mongolian Studies / Royal Roads University

26 Feb

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

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

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

Programming disruption due to Covid-19 pandemic

Talk (online)

Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Director and Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations / UVic Law professor

05 May

Roundtable (closed to the public; online)

Justice for the Rohingya: The Role of Canada

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

Talk (online)

Lynette J. Chua, National University of Singapore, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Kenyon College, USA

18 June

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

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

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

Talk (online)

Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow / former Canadian diplomat, Asad Kiyani, UVic Law

24 Sept

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

Talk (online)

Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, Andrew Wender, UVic History / Political Science, Elizabeth Vibert, UVic History

15 Oct

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

Talk (Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture; online)

Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University, Japan, Jordan Stanger-Ross, UVic History  22 Oct

Panel (online)

Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch Asia, Anna Dzeidzic, The University of Hong Kong, Eugénie Mérieau, National University of Singapore

28 Oct

Talk (online)

Zehra Abrar, UVic Law graduate student, Namitha George, UVic Political science PhD student

29 Oct

Talk (online)

Manu Karuka, Barnard College, Heidi Stark, UVic Political Science, Jason Colby, UVic History

05 Nov

Talk (Hung Lecture; online)

Inderpal Grewal, Yale University

12 Nov

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

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

2019

Type Title Speaker(s) Date

Talk

Amma's Daughters - A memoir

Meenal Shrivastava, Athabasca University, Sikata Banerjee, UVic Gender Studies

10 Jan

Talk

Empire of Guns and the Industrial Revolution

Priya Satia, Stanford University

16 Jan

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

Talk

The Huawei Case, Extradition & Canada-US-China Relations

Asad Kiyani, UVic Law, Phil Calvert, CAPI Senior Research Fellow

24 Jan

Talk

Security, Terror and Colonial Modernity

Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina; Discussants: Rachel Cleves, UVic History, Stephen Ross, UVic English

31 Jan

Film screening (Victoria Film Festival)

"Dead Pigs"

Cathy Yan, Director

4 & 6 Feb

Film screening (Victoria Film Festival)

"Ramen Shop" 

 Eric Khoo, Director

 5 Feb

Talk

Looking at Japanese North American confinement during WWII

Greg Robinsonl’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 ParkChina*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 TimesNong 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
Panel

Thailand's Election

Songkrant Pongboonjun, UVic Law PhD student / QES-AS incoming scholarKitpatchara Somanawat, Chiang Mai University, Thailand (via video-link); Chair: Lindsay Neilson
former Associate Director of Global Engagement at UVic

28 Mar

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
Talk

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
Talk

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
Talk

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

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

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
Talk

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
Talk

Cod Tongue: A Romance

Andrew Loman, Associate Professor of English, Memorial University 5 Dec

2018

Type Title Speaker(s) Date

Talk

Qian Liu, PhD candidate, UVic Law

08 Feb

Talk

CAPI Visiting Professor Dr. Cody Poulton

01 Feb

Talk

Dr. Jutta Gutberlet, Professor, & Dr. Sayed M. Nazim Uddin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Community-based Research Laboratory, UVic Department of Geography

01 Mar

2017

Type Title Speaker(s) Date
Roundtable

The South China Sea and US-China-ASEAN Relations

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)

Old Stone

Director: Johnny Ma

07 Feb
Film (Victoria Film Festival)

After the Storm

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

Academic Freedom and its Discontents in India

Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi

28 Feb
Student presentations

Stories from the Field

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

Forest & Wildfire Management in Nepal

Ivan Somlai, CAPI Associate and Director, Ethnobureaucratica

14 March
Ayukawa lecture

The Legacy of Japanese Canadian Redress

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

 

Thanh Phan, PhD candidate, UVic Law /

Ngozi S. Nwoko, PhD student, UVic Law

05 Oct
Talk

Right to Good Governance in India: Towards a Model of Citizen Centric Accountability

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

Su Yen Chong, master's student, UVic Fine Arts /

Nima Dorji, PhD student, UVic Law

02 Nov
Talk

India at 70: Assessing constitutional democracy in India on the 70th anniversary of its Independence

 

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

Management and the New Demographic: Workplace Integration and Individual Outcomes for Migrants and their Descendants

Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair

03 Feb
Seminar

Culture at Work – Canada

Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair

05 Feb
Film (Victoria Film Festival)

Lost & Found

John Choi and Nicolina Lanni, filmmakers

11 & 13 Feb
Talk

Liminal Life on the Myanmar-Thailand Border: Forced Migrant Children’s Identity Development and Agency in Resettlement Decision-Making

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

 

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)

Children of Denial

Larry Grant, Elder-in-Residence, First Nations House of Learning, UBC, and Language and cultural consultant, Musqueam Nation

21 March
Talk

Many Nations of the Russian Federation

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

Culture at Work – Japan

Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair

31 March
Talk

Nowhere People Photography Project

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

Islam, Religious Economy, and Globalization

Nile Green, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

27 Oct
Roundtable

Thailand's Political and Constitutional Future

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

Cities, Utopias, and Theosophy

Smriti Srinivas, University of California, Davis

17 Nov
Talk

Ainu Language Policies – Past and Present

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
China Chair at the Institute for
Asian Research and a professor
in the department of history
at the University of British
Columbia

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

Management and the New Demographic, Unleashing the Economic and Organizational Potential of Migrants, Diaspora, and a Boundaryless Workforce

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

11th Annual Conference on Chaozhou Studies

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

Thailand: A Worthy Partner in Asia and the Pacific

Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Thailand's Ambassador to Canada

21 Sept
Panel

The Global Refugee Crisis: Local International and International Responses

 

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

Trans-Pacific Aviation Law and Policy 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

Learning from Japan

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

Culture at Work: China

Mary Yoko Brannen, Jarislowsky CAPI East Asia (Japan) Chair

06 Nov
Talk

Transnational Law and Why it Matters for Asia

Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, and Professor of Law, UVic Faculty of Law

18 Nov
Book launch

Sakura in Stone: Victoria's Japanese Legacy and Toshiko

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

Reactor – Lessons from Fukushima

Ian MacKenzie, filmmaker and media activist

21 Jan
Talk

Working in Military Environments

Ivan Somlai, Director of Global Collaboration and CAPI Associate

22 Jan
Talk

Spiriting Away the Homeless: Cambodia’s Urban Apocalypse

Simon Springer, UVic Department of Geography

03 Feb
Talk

Surfing and Cycling for Peace in West Papua

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

Considering the Concept of Indigeneity for Land and Natural Resource Management in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos

Ian G. Baird, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

14 March
Panel

India Votes 2014

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

Family Entanglements, Migration and Media

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

Tiananmen Square Protests: A Reflection 25 Years On

Patrick Brown, former CBC Asia Bureau Chief, and Rowena He, Author and Scholar

30 May
Conference

Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World from Antiquity

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

Anatomy of an Election Observation Mission: Mongolia, 2013

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

Sharks on Pacific Coral Reefs

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

Two Koreas: Borders and Migration

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

Congress 2013: Asian Canadian Studies 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

Perspectives on China's Transition

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

Shadow Woman - The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton

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

Finding Japan - Early Canadian Encounters with Asia

Anne Park Shannon, CAPI Associate and former Canadian diplomat 29 Oct
Workshop

What is the real cost of a $10 dress? Lessons from the Rana Plaza tragedy - labour rights, commodity chains and shared accountability

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

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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

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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:
Asia-Pacific Perspectives

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
Mainstreaming in the Priorities and Planning of Tohoku Reconstruction, 2012-2015

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Cathy Walker, former National Health and Safety Director of the Canadian Auto Workers Union

2 Dec