Welcome to our photo gallery! Our department and graduate students host many internal and public activities through out the year, here are some of the photos we like to share with you.

The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) recently hosted a graduate symposium on Asia-Pacific and invited graduate and senior undergraduate students, whose work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region to present their research, work-in-progress, or papers. Our department had a great turnout at the event, which was held at the Graduate Lounge on March 1st, 2006 (6 - 9 p.m). Most of our graduate students participated and many of our faculty members attended this symposium. The following are the names of graduate students who had participated in this event and the title of their presentation.

Panel: Comparative Literature (Chair: Richard King)
Yuji Matson - An Exploration into the Works of Abe Kobo and Teshigahara Hiroshi
Ping Guo - Anti-Confucian Themes in the Language Reforms of China and Japan
Kefen Zhou - The Contemporary Chinese Male Intellectuals’ Struggle and Suffering in Zhang Xianling’s Work
Panel: EFL and Asia (Chair: Hiroko Noro)
Dwayne Cover - Outside the Classroom: A Holistic Approach to English Language Acquisition in Japan
Panel: One Child Policy (Chair: Helen Lansdowne)
Gigi Lee - Family Value of Single Daughters in Contemporary Urban China: An Exploratory Study

Yuji Matson

Ping Guo

Kefen Zhou

Dr. Richard King, Kefen Zhou

Dr. Lin Hua

Gigi Lee

Group

Dwayne Cover, Ping Guo, Gigi Lee