CAPI Student Symposium on the Asia-Pacific
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Graduate and senior undergraduate students, whose work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, will be presenting their research, work-in-progress, or papers at the CAPI Student Symposium on the Asia-Pacific.
The symposium will be a great opportunity to network with students doing work in the Asia-Pacific region, listen to interesting presentations, and enjoy some complimentary food. Everyone welcome!
Program:
8:30 to 9:00 am - Coffee and Muffins and Welcome
9:00 to 9:15 am - Gabriel Botel, MA Student, Political Science, Fuelling Insecurity | Energy and Politics in Sino-Myanmar Relations
9:15 to 9:30 am - Nanchu He, PhD Student, Political Science, Marketizing Media Control in Post-Tiananmen China
9:30 to 9:45 am- Jing Qian, LLM Student, Law, Corporatist Legislature: Authoritarianism, Representation and Local People's Congress in Zhejiang
9:45 to 10:00 am - Tristan Evans, MA Student, Political Science, Identity, Biopolitics, Terror: Reading the Xinjiang riots through the friend/enemy dialectic
10:00 to 10:15 am - Yuumi Noto, MA Student, Pacific and Asian Studies, The Politics and Contradictions of the "suzhi" (quality) Discourse in Contemporary China
10:15 to 10:30 am - Catherine Zangger, PhD Student, Sociology, Policy, Language and Outcome: The Political Discourses of the New Zealand Prostitution Reform Act, 2000-2003
10:30 to 10:45 am - Break
10:45 to 11:00 am - Petch Manopawitr, PhD Student, Geography, Designing a Resilient Marine Protected Area Network in Thailand's Andaman Sea to Address the Impacts of Climate Change
11:00 to 11:15 am- Kyoko Kaneko, MA Student, Linguistics, The Use of Request Strategies by Speakers of Japanese
11:15 to 11:30 am - Simon Nantais, PhD Student, History, Zainichi Koreans and the Korean Homeland, 1945-1952
11:30 to 11:45 am - Chong Su Kim, MA Student, Political Science, Beyond Procrustean Bed of Recognition and Redistribution: Social movements in South Korea, paving a middle way but not a third?
11:45 to 12:00 pm - Nicole Evans, BA Student, Pacific and Asian Studies, Something of Value: Contemporary Ainu Identity
12:00 to 12:15 pm - Yunyi Shao, BCom Student, Business, Analysis of Canada's Foreign Trade and the Prospect of the Sino-Canadian Trade Development
12:15 to 1:00 pm - Lunch provided
