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Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives

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Presenting....The 2025 CAPI Interns

CAPI talks and events
CAPI talks and events

What do we do?

Established in 1988, the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) is located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. CAPI is a research centre focused on research, education and community engagement in the Asia-Pacific. We facilitate international conferences, events, and research projects for faculty and area experts as well as experiential learning opportunities for students. Since its inception in 1988, CAPI acts as a vital link between UVic and the Asia–Pacific region, providing opportunities and initiatives that bring scholars and others together. Read more

Elly Thompson SDGS

SDG wall in Kuala Lumpur. Photo credit: 2022 CAPI Intern Elly Thompson

Publications

Supervising a Peace that Never Was: Recollections of Canadian Personnel in Indochina, 1954-1973 (2023). Edited by CAPI Associate Director Helen Lansdowne, CAPI Associate Nick Etheridge and CAPI Senior Research Fellow Phil Calvert

book cover - Smart Cities in Asia

Smart Cities in Asia: Regulations, Problems, and Development (2022). Edited by CAPI Post-Doc Scholar Thanh Phan and Senior Research Fellow Daniela Damian [open access]

Covid-19 in Asia book cover

Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts (2020). Edited by CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj

Landscapes of Injustice book cover

Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (2020), the culminating volume of the Landscapes of Injustice Project, edited by Project Director and CAPI Senior Fellow Jordan Stanger-Ross

News

CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI Associate Qian Liu and Maartje de Visser are the authors of an article 'Law, Politics, and the Academy in Asia: Navigating Constraints as Public Law Scholars' published in Cambridge University Press
CAPI Associate Midori Ogasawara has published an article 'In the Heart of Liberal Democracy: Whitewashing Authoritarian Surveillance a Decade After the Snowden Revelations' in Surveillance and Society
Announcing the publication of a special issue of our in-house journal, Migration, Mobility & Displacement on Anti-Asian racism
CAPI Associate Trung Nguyen has published a NUS blog post on the ASEAN response to the crisis in Myanmar.
Canada's prosperity hinges on doubling down on Asian trade - Senior Research Fellow Phil Calvert has published an article in Nikkei Asia
On 4 October, CAPI hosted a campus-wide Asia Forum with the goal of connecting Asia-related researchers at UVic. Read about the forum here CAPI Asia Forum 2024.
CAPI Senior Research Fellow and recently retired Associate Director Helen Lansdowne is currently working in Bhutan. Read Helen's stories from the field here.

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