Lunch and Learn Series

Come to a free talk through CAPI's Lunch and Learn Series (formerly our "Brown Bag Lectures") and learn more about current issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Lunch and Learn talks usually take place from 12:30 to 1:30 pm throughout the academic year and are open to the public. Join us and expand your knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region!

The Use of Technology in Learning

Mar 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
, UVic
This lecture looks at using traditional tools and new media technology in learning environments.
Revolution in post-Red Bengal: Informal Workers Fight Back

Mar 19 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, 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.
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China

Mar 6 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, 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.
Freedom in Entangled Worlds

Feb 20 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, UVic, Victoria BC
Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, in 1998 as an exchange student. His later study of West Papua's resistance to Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, London, and the offices of the oil giant BP, Kirksey saw the revolutionaries' knack for getting inside institutions of power and building coalitions with unlikely allies.
CANCELLED Managing an HIV/AIDS NGO in China CANCELLED

Feb 10 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, UVic, Victoria BC
Due to sudden indisposition of the speaker this talk is cancelled. We are sorry for the short notice and hope to reschedule soon.

Dr. Wan Yanhai graduated from Shanghai Medical University School of Public Health in 1988. In 1994, he founded the Beijing Aizhi Action Project, an independent NGO working on issues around HIV/AIDS. This project subsequently became the Beijing Aizhixing Institute, which continues its work on HIV/AIDS, adds focus on health and human rights, as well as engages with marginalized groups that official programs often do not reach.
The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds

Feb 8 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, Victoria BC, UVic
In winter 1902 in the ruins of post-Boxer Uprising Beijing, two women from two different worlds joined hands, and made history- the former concubine and legendary tyrant Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Midwestborn, devoutly Christian Sarah Pike Conger.
Living with Hiroshima: My Memories of 66 Years

Jan 31 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
, Victoria BC, UVic
Koko Tanimoto Kondo, writer, speaker, and educator from Hiroshima, talks about the effects of the bomb on her life, and her ongoing work for peace. Koko, daughter of Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto and Chisa Tanimoto, was an 8-month old baby and was 1.1 km away from the hypocenter on August 6th, 1945 when the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima's people. Koko, who miraculously survived the bombing, grew up with victims who came to her father's church on a daily basis.
Malling over Japan: Perspectives on Shopping Centre Development and Management

Nov 3 2011 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, University of Victoria
Only over the last decade has Japan seen a rapid increase in the number of large, centrally-managed shopping centres and they have become important places for retailers to operate stores and for people to shop and spend time.
Fateful Complexity: Genesis of Unplanned Interconnectedness of Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to Talibanisation & Other Conflicts

Nov 1 2011 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, University of Victoria
Foreign media portray Pakistan as a terrorist hotbed and its northern peoples as colluders with the Taliban.
Known Inhabited Worlds: Exploring “Ecumenes” as a Concept and Method for the Study of Regional and Global Processes

Oct 26 2011 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
, University of Victoria
What ever happened to holism? This talk presents the results of work on a conceptual framework for the study of societies and history that is holistic, meaning it holds all elements of social process in a unifying concept. This "ecumenes approach" involves a method for description and analysis of human affairs that contains some classical elements together with some contemporary elements.