Welcome to the David Lam Centre (DLC)
David See-Chai Lam Centre supports and facilitates research collaboration, networking and building the community of Asia-related scholars across campus and internationally. Check out our funding opportunities below.
Supporting research and engagement with the Asia Pacific Region.
Opportunities for faculty
Part of our mandate is to facilitate engagement and research between SFU and Asia. SFU faculty (including limited term lecturers) conducting Asia-related research are eligible to receive support from David Lam Centre. Funding is available to members of the DLC. We also support a Scholar-in-Residence program.
Resources for students
SFU David Lam Centre (DLC) offers an annual graduate student essay prize for $1,200 for an outstanding paper on intercultural issues, particularly as they relate to people in or from Canada and the Asia Pacific region. Funding is also available to graduate students to support their research.
Funding for the community
We support events that are Asia-related, especially in terms of culture and history. Such events should be free and open to the public and /or connect to faculty interest at SFU. We can coordinate events by booking rooms at Harbour Centre; organizing food and drink; preparing event posters; and announcing the event to our networks.
Events
Past events
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December 15, 2024
December 15, 2024
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November 12, 2024
November 12, 2024
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November 02, 2024
November 02, 2024
News
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March 14, 2025
The David Lam Centre is pleased to present this year's award to Judy Yae Young Kim for her paper “Melancholia and Inscrutability: Affects Surrounding Asian American History”. Kim is a current MA student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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January 06, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Ronaldo Au-Yeung's paper, supported by the David Lam Centre through the 2022 Graduate Research Award, has been published in the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (APMJ).