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  • Feb
    8
    Brown Bag Talk on Harnessing Canada's People-to-People Links with China
    APF Canada is inviting Joanna Wong, principal Flow CS and APF Canada Media Fellowship recipient, to showcase her human element video series that captures a new era of innovation shaping Canada’s ties with China. People-to-people links are driving new opportunities in often overlooked sectors such as green business and social responsibility. Join us for a screening and discussion of this video series as part of the National Conversation on Asia. The event will take place the APF Canada Vancouver office at 220, 890 West Pender Street from 12:00pm to 1pm. Light refreshment will be served. Please RSVP Nabila.pirani@asiapacific.ca.
  • Feb
    15
    Deadline for Media and Post-Graduate Research Fellowships – Call for Applications
    APF Canada has launched the call for applications for the 2012/2013 Media and Post-Graduate Research Fellowships. The Foundation will award up to three media fellowships, valued at up to $10,000, to Canadian journalists and reporters with the opportunity to explore and become better informed on Asia. The Post-Graduate Research Fellowships offer recent Masters and PhD graduates the opportunity to wok for one year at the Foundation’s Vancouver office on a research topic of choice, as well as participate in the daily operations of a think tank. The Post-Graduate Research Fellowship is granted to three recent graduates each year valued at $35,000 and $38,000 annually for Master and PhD graduates, respectively. For more details, please visit http://www.asiapacific.ca/grants.
  • Feb
    29
    14th National Metropolis Conference
    APF Canada and the University of British Columbia will present a 90-minute workshop “From Local to Translocal: A Transnational Understanding of the Social Integration of Chinese Canadians” at Metropolis’ annual forum. Metropolis is an international network for comparative research and public policy development on migration, diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around the world. The workshop will be held at Harbour Centre Castle in Toronto from Feb 29 – Mar 3, 2012. For more details, please visit http://www.metropolis2012.net/home.
  • Mar
    8
    The 2012 Telfer India Forum "Establishing Your Presence in India – What you need to know”
    The Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the Indo Canada Ottawa Business Chamber (ICOBC), the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ontario (MEDT) and sponsoring organizations, present the 2012 Telfer India Forum on March 8. The half-day event involving senior business and government leaders from Canada and India is designed to help prepare Canadian companies in establishing an ongoing presence in this strategic market. The event will take place at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. For more information, click here.
  • Mar
    14
    “Disaster Management, Energy Security, and Multilateral Cooperation: The Tohoku Disaster and Its Regional and Global Implications”
    The Japan Futures Initiative, a network of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the promotion of the policy-relevant social scientific study of Japan led by the University of Waterloo, will host a two-day workshop on March 14 and 15 to discuss the potential of Japanese and Canadian cooperation in disaster management and energy security in the Asia-Pacific and beyond. For more information or to subscribe: sh57lee@uwaterloo.ca or david@davidwelch.ca.
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  • Feb
    3
    Global Chinese Financial Forum: Bridging Chinese Capital to Canadian Resources
    Kenny Zhang, APF Senior Research Analyst, will give a thirty minute talk at the Global Chinese Financial Forum in Vancouver, BC. This forum aims to build linkages between the North American mining sector and Chinese investment interests. Mr. Zhang’s will speak about ‘Chinese FDI in Canada for the Past Decade.’ This two-day conference will be held at The Sutton Place Hotel. For more details, please click here.
  • Jan
    6
    3.11 Portrait Project by Nobuyuki Kobayashi
    The Japan Foundation will host a talk by Nobuyuki Kobayashi, a photographer and organizer of the 3.11 Portrait Project. Mr. Kobayashi will speak about his experience photographing tsunami survivors in Tohoku, the origins of the 3.11 Portrait Project, and the stories behind the photos. The exhibit will be displayed at the Japan Foundation between January 7 to 27. A talk will be hosted at the Japan Foundation in Toronto, 131 Bloor St. West at 6:30pm. Please RSVP at http://www.jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php.
  • Jan
    5
    From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration
    The Liu Institute Network on Global and Transnational Ethnographies and the Immigrant Vancouver Ethnographic Field School are hosting a film screening to raise awareness about contemporary social justice issues by reflecting on, and comparing, the experiences of migrants between Canada and China since the early 20th century. The screening will be followed by an informal discussion with Jordan Paterson, director of this film; Henry Yu, History Professor at UBC; Maggie Ip, founder of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation, and moderated by Alexia Bloch, Associate Professor of Anthropology with UBC. This will be held at the Liu institute for Global Issues Case Room at 4pm. For more information, click here.
  • Dec
    16
    Mongolia Lecture Series at UBC
    The Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia is holding a Mongolia Lecture Series featuring academic presentations on mining policy and other issues related to historical and contemporary Mongolia. This event is free and open to public at UBC Robson Square Room C.485 from 4pm - 6pm. For more details, please visit http://www.iar.ubc.ca/Programs/ProgramonInnerAsia/MongoliaLectureSeries.aspx.

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