November 5th, 2010
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Japan has been subject to growing international criticism as a haven for international parental child abduction. While much of the pressure from other countries is focused on Japan joining the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the problem has its roots in Japanese family law and judicial dynamics which make abduction and alienation an issue for parents and children in strictly domestic cases too. In this talk Professor Colin Jones will offer his view of the problem in the context of recent events and possible future developments.
Colin Jones is a Professor of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan and is CAPI's Japan Program Visitor for the Fall of 2010.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at University of Victoria on October 26, 2010.
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The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Japan, Child Abduction, International Child Abduction, International Marriage, Japanese Family Law
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November 1st, 2010
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This presentation focuses on issues revolving around gender equality and gender mainstreaming in Malaysia, within the context of a complex multiethnic society, which delicately has to negotiate sensitive multiethnic terrains set against a backdrop of Malaysia's aggressive neo-liberal economic policy and what seems to be a rising religious conservatism fueled by the hegemony of global politics. This presentation argues that taking the gender and rights framework calls for "business unusual" approaches to transform Malaysia's society into one which believes in social justice and in the principle of respecting human dignity and worth.
Rashidah Shuib is a Professor and is the Director of the Women's Development Research Centre (KANITA), at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia.
This Launch and Learn Lecture was presented by CAPI at University of Victoria on October 21, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Gender Equality, Malaysia, Multiethnic Society, Malaysian Society, Social Justice
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November 1st, 2010
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in China and Southeast Asia have arguably contributed to improving communities throughout the region. Yet industry often sidelines human rights and corruption by placing them low on the corporate priority agenda. This seminar, based on fieldwork carried out in Cambodia, China and Thailand, presents a theoretical framework that argues elite stakeholders are driving and engineering a CSR paradigm that sidelines corruption and human rights. Findings suggest that although CSR is an increasingly important corporate strategy, human rights and corruption will remain peripheral business issues until elite stakeholders agree on how the concepts should enter the social responsibility framework.
Robert Hanlon is currently a Research Associate at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. He has previously worked for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, the Canadian High Commission to Australia, as well as the Asian Human Rights Commission, a Hong Kong-based regional NGO with United Nations consultative status.
This Launch and Learn Lecture was presented by CAPI at University of Victoria on October 19th, 2010. To read more about this lecture please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Corporative Social Responsibility, China, Southeast Asia, Human Rights
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October 21st, 2010
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In Octover 2010 Japan will host the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10 Nagoya). Not since the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto in 1997 has such a high profile UN convention dealing with the environment been held in Japan. COP10 Nagoya will also provide a forum for Japan to present their Satoyama Initiative, proposing a holistic approach to resource use and management by integrating traditional practices with science. This Lunch and Learn talk will focus on the Satoyama Initiative which, if adopted, could mark an new direction for global environmental dialogue that incorporates non-Western perspectives about nature and resource use and management.
Anne McDonald is the Founding Director of the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies in Kanazawa, Japan.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at the University of Victoria on October 4, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Environment, Japan, Biological Diversity, Kyoto Protocol, Satoyama Institute, COP10, United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies
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October 20th, 2010
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Eric Enno Tamm's book "The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China" retraces the epic journey of Gustaf Mannerheim, a Russian spy, who chronicled the modernization and reform of the Qing Dynasty from 1906 to 1908. A century later, in 2006, Tamm followed in Mannerheim's footsteps through Central Asia, Xinjiang, Gansu and Central and North China to Beijing.
Eric Enno Tamm is an author, journalist and analyst with more than 15 years' experience in the media and non-profit sector. For more information about Tamm and his book, please visit his website.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at the University of Victoria on September 15, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Asia, China, communism, modernization, Silk Road, Beijing, Russia
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April 14th, 2010
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Since last September, the Hatoyama government's Asia policy has resulted in some deterioration of Japan's relations with the United States, as Japan seeks to launch new projects in Asia. Perhaps it would be better for Japan, which has had an allied relationship with the United States for over half a century, to act as an intermediary vis a vis other Asian countries' requests and demands of the United States. Japan's Asia policy cannot be a substitute for its policy toward the United States. This talk focuses on these issues as well as Japan's national security interests, the Japanese economy, and Japan's energy needs within the context of Japan's evolving relationship with Asia, and particularly China, as well as with the United States.
Go Ito is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at the University of Victoria on March 10, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit
CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Asia, Japan, government, United States, policy, foreign policy, national security, China
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April 14th, 2010
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After briefly examining depictions of Chinese torture and punishment from the early modern era, this presentation then focuses on the construction of the "cruelty" stereotype over the course of the long 19th century, situating it comparatively within the broader evolution of Sino-Western relations and of the diverse assessments regarding Chinese practice as well as within the then current literature on "Oriental" societies generally.
Gregory Blue is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at the University of Victoria on March 17, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Asia, China, torture, prison life, punishment, ancient China
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February 16th, 2010
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In this lecture, Annalee Lepp talks about human trafficking and particularly trafficking in women for the purposes of sex work, and the extent to which anti-trafficking campaigns benefited those persons who have been the main focus of anti-trafficking interventions.
Annalee Lepp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Victoria, and the Director of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), Canada.
This Lunch and Learn lecture was presented by CAPI at the University of Victoria on February 10, 2010. To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Asia, women's studies, human rights, human trafficking, sex trade, migrant, refugee, United Nations
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December 11th, 2009
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The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, in partnership with the University of Victoria's Lansdowne Lecture Series, presents a Lansdowne Lecture featuring Charles Burton, an expert on Canada-China relations for the past 35 years. Recorded at the Univerisity of Victoria, November 20, 2009.
To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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CAPI, UVic begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Asia, China, Canada-China relations, human rights, department of foreign affairs
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December 10th, 2009
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The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives presents a Lunch & Learn talk featuring Rod Germaine, a dispute resolution practitioner who has been involved with Burma for nearly 20 years, recorded at the University of Victoria, November 26, 2009.
To read more about this lecture, please visit CAPI's website.
The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) was established in 1987 as an important element of the University of Victoria's plan to expand and strengthen its links with universities and other institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, especially with China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Korea, and the island states of Oceania. The Centre's primary mandate is to conduct and facilitate research on policy issues related to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the Centre serves as a regional resource facility to the University and to the larger community.
For more information on CAPI's programs, publications, events and opportunities, please visit our website at http://www.capi.uvic.ca/.
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CAPI, UVic begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Burma, Asia, human rights, refugees, NGO, Myanmar
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