Past Events

Title: Conference: Building Peace in Northeast Asia: An International conference
Date: 26 September 2014

Title: Conference: China Rising: Power vs. Responsibility
Date: 27 September 2013

Title: Conference: The Korean Peninsula: Assessing Prospects for Change
Date: 11 January 2013

Title: Conference: China's Evolving Strategic Intentions and East Asian Security
Date: 24 February 2012

Title: Conference: Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula: Beyond Six-Party Talks
Date: 14 October 2011

Title: Conference: The Twin Rise of China and Japan and The Future of The East Asian Order
Date: 5 November 2010

Title: Conference: Regional Peace Building: The Korean Peninsula and North-east Asia
Date: 10 June 2010

Title: Does Asia Need Rebalancing?
Speaker: Dr. Olaf Unteroberdoerster, Senior Economist, IMF's Asia Regional Studies Unit and Former Senior Resident Representative in Hong Kong
Date: 30 April 2010

Title: Political Succession in China: Alternative Scenarios and the Bo Xilai Factor
Speaker: Bo Zhiyue, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
Date: 8 April 2010

Title: Election 2010: Prospects for Political Reform in Myanmar/Burma
Speaker: Robert Taylor, Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Date: 30 March 2010

Title: The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Everything Has Changed
Speaker: Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
Date: 19 March 2010

Title: China's Western Regions and Issues of Development in the PRC
Speaker: Tim Summers, PhD candidate, Centre for East Asian Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 8 March 2010

Title: China's Rise and Its Foreign Relationships
Speaker: Prof. Shen Dingli, Director of the Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Date: 23 February 2010

Title:Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Date: 25 November 2009

Title:US Policy Towards Asia
Speaker: Benjamin Weber, Political Unit Chief, U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong
Date: 13 November 2009

Title: Conference on Assessing Taiwan's Second Transition of Power
Date: 9 October 2009

Title: Conference on China and Global Climate Change
Date: 18-19 June 2009

Title:US Energy and Climate Policy:  How is it Changing and how will it impact China and the World?  
Speaker: Russell J. Westergard, Science and Technology Officer, U.S. Consulate General in Hong Hong
Date: 30 April 2009

Title: Diaspora Delivers Diversity: Overseas Returned Students and China’s Modernization
Speaker: Prof. David Zweig, HKUST
Date: 20 April 2009

Title: EU-China Energy Relations
Speaker: Maria Castillo Fernandez, Head of Office, European Union Office of the European Commission in Hong Kong and Macao
Date: 9 April 2009

Title: Accounting for Rising Wages in China
Speaker: Professor Dennis Tao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 31 March 2009

Title: Prospects for Political Reform in Burma
Speaker: Professor Ian Holliday, Dean of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong
Date: 19 March 2009

Title: Wildlife Conservation in Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Roger C. Kendrick, Senior Conservation Officer, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden
Date: 10 March 2009

Title: Social Psychology and State Identity: Japan, Polarisation in the International Whaling Commission
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Symons, APEC Research Fellow, Lingnan University
Date: 27 February 2009

Title: The Economic and Moral Dimensions of Global Warming
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Paul Maréchal, Associate Professor University of Rennes 2
Date: 20 January 2009

Title: American Policy and American Values
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Hutchinson, Director of Public Affairs, U.S. Consulate General (Hong Kong)
Date: 1 December 2008

Title: What kind of US President will Obama Make?
Speaker: Professor Michael Roskin, Lycoming College
Date: 18 November 2008

Title:Obama and the Rise of China: Forecasting Sino-U.S. Relations after the Presidential Election
Speaker: Dr. Willy Wo-lap Lam
Date: 13 November 3008