8 Nov 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tony WHEELER
Co-Founder, The Lonely Planet Publications
Topic: Shoestring Travel: Is it sustainable today?
Does shoestring travel still exist in today’s hyper-organised, internet booked, environment? It’s been nearly 40 years since Tony WHEELER took off on the trip which led to Lonely Pl...
7 Nov 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen VINES
Journalist, Writer, Broadcaster
Topic: Why Food Gurus are Crazy and Wonderful
Note: Recipes from the celebrity chefs covered in the book will be served at this gourmet dinner.
Stephen VINES will talk about his new book, Food Gurus – 20 People Who Have Changed the Way We Eat...
5 Nov 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: NG Hak-kim Eddie, SBS, JP
Secretary for Education
Topic: Hong Kong’s Education: Progressing on Strengths
As the new Secretary for Education, Mr NG will present a summary of milestones in Hong Kong’s education reform and his strategic vision for education in Hong Kong in the next five yea...
1 Nov 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mike CHINOY
CNN’s former Beijing Bureau Chief
Senior Fellow, U.S. - China Institute, University of Southern California
Topic: “ASSIGNMENT CHINA: CHINA WATCHING”
Documentary Screening
After MAO Zedong's communists took power in China in 1949, American journalists were barred from the coun...
31 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Leroy B. WILLIAMS Professor of History and Political Science
Harvard University
Topic: China in Transition
China is currently going through a major leadership transition. Professor MACFARQUHAR will talk about that in the context of the broader transition between Maoi...
30 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Ambassador CHEN Jian
Dean of the School of International Studies, Renmin University
Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations
Topic: China’s Policies and its Neighbors
Ambassador CHEN, one of China’s best-known diplomats for the last half-century, will review the history of re...
11 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. ZHOU Xun
Assistant Research Professor
School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Topic: The hidden story of the Great Famine in China under MAO
The history of the Great Famine in China (1958 - 1962) under MAO has long been obscured by official taboos and restricted access to prima...
9 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: LIM Guan-eng
Democratic Action Party, Secretary General
Chief Minister, Penang, Malaysia
Topic: Malaysia's tipping point
After their best-ever results in 2008, Malaysia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) and its allies Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Parti Agama SeMalaysia aim to oust the United ...
8 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Introducer: Carsten SCHAEL
Photographer
Topic: "Ordinary miracles: The photo league's New York" – A Screening followed by a Q&A session
This is a feature-length documentary film made by Nina ROSENBLUM and Daniel ALLENTUCK, which tells the story of the rise and politically motivated fall of the Ph...
8 Oct 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeet THAYIL
Poet and Novelist
Topic: MUMBAI: FACT AND FICTION - Beneath the glitz of Big Bucks and Bollywood – the world of drugs
Jeet THAYIL, an established poet with several anthologies to his name, has made his debut into the underworld of narcotics with his first novel, Narcopolis, w...
