📢This Thursday at CAPI, join us for a discussion of elections in South and Southeast Asia with panelists Neilesh Bose, Yukiko Nishikawa, Mark Williams and Akshaya Chandani. 3:30-5:30pm | FRA 192

📢@uvic is seeking a CAPI China Chair at the level of Associate/Full Professor, cross-posted at @UVicHistory and @uvicpoli and embedded at CAPI. Deadline for applications 2 Jan 2025 🇨🇳🇨🇦

Thank you to our expert panel @KaiOstwald, Jia Wang, @tremblay_reeta and @VinaNadjibulla who shed light on the impacts for Asia of a Trump administration at our public event last week.

CAPI was honoured to welcome Canada's Ambassador to China, Jennifer May @canjenmay who gave a keynote talk at the CAPI Asia Forum, a campus wide gathering of UVic Asia-focused researchers on 4 October.

UVic grads and undergrads - mark your calendar for an upcoming info session on funded internships in Asia!

CAPI, in partnership with @BhutanLaw, is offering an 8 day educational study tour in Bhutan this fall, 26 October - 3 November. Bhutan offers a unique backdrop to explore sustainability amid emerging climate challenges.

Thanks to co-organisers CAPPP (@thompsonriversu), and all participants at our Human Security in Southeast Asia conference - including the grad student panel - for a stimulating and enriching exchange of ideas.

Coming up on 25-26 April, in partnership with CAPPP at @thompsonriversu, CAPI presents a 2 day conference on Human Security in Southeast Asia. Free and open to the public, more info and registration at

RT @JapaninCanada: Thrilled to have visited @UVIC, @SFU & @Ocean_Networks & engaged in insightful meetings with Professors & staff. Gratefu….

Congratulations to CAPI Associate and @UVicSoc's Midori Ogasawara who has published the article 'Protective abandonment: Risk, data, and surveillance of nuclear workers post Fukushima' in Current Sociology.

Call for Papers: The second iteration of this Asia in World History workshop will take place at @UVic this fall. Eligible candidates will be recent PhDs working on their first books. Deadline: 29 Jan 2024

Call for applications: Field School in Thailand, May 2024. CAPI, @uvicpoli and @UVic GDS are offering this third-year level course. Full funding is available for qualified students. Deadline for applications 24 Jan. Info session: 1-2pm, 16 Jan at CAPI

Call for CAPI interns! CAPI offers funded internships with our partner organizations in Asia starting in May 2024. Deadline for applications 4pm, 26 January 2024. Info session on 17 Jan 1-2pm at CAPI (within the Law Library).

This Thursday (30 Nov) visiting scholar Dr. Naoki Sakai will deliver the Lansdowne Lecture. 3:30-5:00pm Cornett A225. Presented by CAPI and @UVicPAAS

Join us this Thursday for a talk by Ting Hui Lau from the National University of Singapore. 3:30-4:30pm in the CAPI Boardroom FRA A168a

Today at 3:30pm! Join UVic Sociology's Midori Ogasawara in conversation with former CSIS agent Huda Mukbil, who will offer a unique, internal perspective on Canada's spy agency. In person at CAPI FRA A168a or via zoom

Find out what four visiting "Past Wrong, Future Choices" resident artists and scholars have been working on, this Thursday 2 November in Visual Arts A134

Join us this Thursday when @NidhiSrinivas_ @TheNewSchool will give a talk about his book, discussing how NGOs have emerged as key agents of development over time. 3:30pm Thurs 26 Oct in the CAPI Boardroom

CAPI is delighted to announce new funding! 🎉 between 2024-27, 25 UVic students will get the opportunity become @QEScholars and participate in life-changing internships in Malaysia and Thailand. Thank you.@univcan.@RideauHallFdn.@CommFdnsCanada.& The Victor Dahdaleh Foundation

RT @univcan: Universities Canada and the @RideauHallFdn are pleased to announce the 2024 @QEScholars program awardees, providing $1.6 milli….