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Call for a new China Chair cross-appointed in History and Political Science, and embedded in the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI).

The CAPI Asia Forum on 4 October met its goal of connecting UVic researchers from different disciplines in a fun and engaging way.

CAPI's Associate Director Helen Lansdowne is currently on secondment in the role of Assistant Dean for the Climate Change & Environmental Law Centre at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law, located in the village of Pangbisa, Bhutan.

UVic is one of only 6 Canadian Universities to be awarded new funding for international student experiences through the Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) program.

Political Scientist Joins CAPI for one-year as a Visiting China Researcher

2022 CAPI Student Fellowship awards

As we cautiously step out of the shadows of the pandemic, CAPI is pleased to host our first in-person visiting international scholars since the world locked down in spring 2020.

2021 CAPI Student Fellowship awards

CAPI Profiles: Asian Heritage Month

Last spring, as the Covid-19 outbreak was bursting out of China and across Asia, CAPI Director Victor V. Ramraj’s academic instincts kicked in. Ramraj, a UVic Law professor and expert on the constitutional dimensions of emergency powers in Asia, saw the importance of studying the public policy dynamics playing out across the region as governments were scrambling to improvise solutions to the novel virus.

CAPI-based project Landscapes of Injustice's culminating museum exhibition and book offer novel perspectives on the Japanese Canadian experience during WWII

2020 Student Fellowship winner Kevin Bruce is examining changes to coral reef structures after bleaching events

New book: Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir

Justice for the Rohingya: The Role of Canada An international virtual roundtable of experts

Winter break had something a little different in store for a group of forty UVic students who undertook a seven-day cultural tour of BC’s sister province of Guangdong, China, as part of the Guangdong-BC scholarship student exchange program

Call for a new UVic Impact Chair in Indo-Pacific Studies and Engagement cross-appointed in Pacific and Asian Studies and Political Science, and embedded in the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI)

CAPI mourns the loss of our office administrator Shannon Bowie, who was taken much too early after a battle with cancer.

UVic formalizes relations with Bhutan's first law school as part of CAPI-led "Regulating Globalisation in Asia" project

Victor V. Ramraj (CAPI Director and Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations and professor of Law) and Supriya Routh (CAPI Research Associate and professor of Law) are co-editors of a new volume commemorating the legal contributions of renowned Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen.

CAPI invites applications for two 4-6 month visiting appointments. Visiting Researchers are expected to convene at least one seminar or workshop, work closely with CAPI colleagues, students, and interns, and play an active role in CAPI’s activities.

2019 CAPI Student Fellowship award recipients

Sustainable Livelihoods and Climate Change Regulation: Asian Approaches

CAPI's 30th anniversary

Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism & Social Transformation in China

Conference on Public Law, Legal Orders & Governance in Bhutan

New report - The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Canada

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of long-time CAPI Research Associate Art Wright on January 1st, 2019.

CAPI 2012-2017 Visiting Scholar Leslie Butt's research on Indonesian migrant families

Report from Dennis Gupa, 2017 CAPI Fellowship recipient conducting work in the Philippines

2018 CAPI Student Fellowship award recipients

A unique partnership between UVic and Bhutan’s first law school forged out of a newspaper article and a UVic professor’s vision for transnational scholarly exchange

CAPI Senior Research Fellow Phil Calvert talks the US-China trade war on CBC Radio's "The House"

CAPI 2018 intern photo contest

CAPI and UVic's Co-op + Career services were awarded funding to send 38 UVic students on internships across Southeast Asia over the next 4 years.