Past conferences

These conferences, organized collaboratively with the International Association of Performing Language, are pioneering endeavors exploring the power of drama and theatre in second language education and beyond. In the recent past they have brought together scholars and practitioners who share a keen interest in the role of drama and theatre in second language education.  This conference was organized by Dr.

The theme for ASPAC 2008 was "Crossing Boundaries in the Asia-Pacific: Regional and Disciplinary Intersections". In the tradition of ASPAC and AAS conferences, proposals on the full range of Asian studies were included; however, we encouraged colleagues to venture outside conventions of space and methodology in their consideration of topics within their area of specialization in panels and papers proposed for the conference, considering issues comparatively as they relate to different parts of Asia and the Pacific, and juxtaposing disciplinary approaches.

CAPI, together with the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, invited a group of outstanding scholars of China and Japan to present new research on a historical issue of continued significance: the relationship between the two great powers of East Asia in the period from Western contact in the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II.

This international conference, organized by CAPI's former Japan Chair, Dr. Joseph Kess and China Chair Dr. Wu Guoguang, with Wenran Jiang of the University of Alberta, brought leading Chinese, Japanese and Canadian participants together for two days in March 2007.  The serious and forthright tone of the conference was established by contrasting reactions to a keynote lecture the first morning of the conference on the controversial role of apologies in East Asian affairs by Michael Donnelly, the Dr.