Annual Review 2018 – 2019

Our latest research cluster, the South move forward in the company of friends, supporters, Asia Global Forum, continues to be active, organizing researchers, and partners from across UVic and around a range of events and hosting scholars funded by the the world, from the shores of the Pacific and Indian Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. [...] The 30th JSW School of Law, Ratana Ly from the Centre for the anniversary dinner was also an opportunity to launch Study of Humanitarian Law at the Royal University of a fundraising campaign known as the CAPI Beyond Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, and Songkrant Borders Fund, in support of our internship program. [...] As the CAPI’s weekly events calendar continued apace, in 2018-2019 academic year came to a close, we received the spirit of CAPI’s decades-long tradition of research news that CAPI, along with the Department of Pacif- engagement and responsiveness to current issues ic and Asian Studies and the Department of Political and challenges. [...] Additional resilient human and natural environments through the conference funding came from the Royal Government pursuits of legal discourse, research, and education and of Bhutan and UVic’s Offices of Research Services and spoke to the significance of the conference theme: Global Engagement. [...] The 2019 theme was “Hyōgen” Literacy: Exploring (e.g., analysis of religion in the Japanese Language Education early days of Victoria’s Chinatown) in a Diversifying Society from to the global and contemporary the Perspective of Communi- (e.g., parallels between Britain’s cation.” UVic Pacific and Asian 19th century empire and the Belt Studies professor Mika Kimura and Road Initiative).