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Lectures

Featuring the best and brightest from on-campus and across the region, CAPI hosts Lunch and Learn talks (formerly our "Brown Bag Lectures") throughout the academic year.  For more than a decade CAPI has also hosted a variety of distinguished lecturers through the Dorothy and David Lam Lecture Series and more recently through the Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture Series. 

All of CAPI's lectures are free and open to the public.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

Upcoming lectures

  • 70th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Uprooting: Reconciling a Difficult Past
    Feb 24 2012 - 2:30pm - 6:00pm
    70th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Uprooting: Reconciling a Difficult Past
    UVic, Victoria BC

     

     Join this commemorative event to discuss this difficult past and to honour elders from the Japanese Canadian community.
    For more information please see attached poster.

     

  • You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello! Robots, Theatre and the Future of Humanity
    Feb 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello! Robots, Theatre and the Future of Humanity
    Victoria BC

    Brazil-based electronics artist and robotics researcher Zaven Paré and UVic Japanese theatre specialist Cody Poulton will discuss recent collaborations between playwright Oriza Hirata and roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro in theatrical productions using robots and androids. One of Japan's leading dramatists and directors, Hirata is advisor to the Japanese cabinet on cultural and international affairs and recipient of the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

  • Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China
    Mar 6 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China
    UVic

    Feng Xu recently published "Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market". In this book she explores unemployment as one of the most politically explosive issues in China which gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate in the West.

  • Revolution in post-Red Bengal: Informal Workers Fight Back
    Mar 19 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
    Revolution in post-Red Bengal: Informal Workers Fight Back
    University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

    Labour rights enjoy constitutional status in India. The Constitution of India provides for fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of association, and labour welfare goals such as right to work, provision for living wage, appropriate conditions of work, maternity benefit, old-age assistance etc. However, in absence of state initiative informal workers in India are deprived of constitutionally guaranteed rights. Incidentally, the majority of workers in India are informal workers.

  • The Use of Technology in Learning
    Mar 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    The Use of Technology in Learning
    UVic

    This lecture looks at using traditional tools and new media technology in learning environments.