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
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...
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...
27 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Massoud HOSSAINI
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner / Photojournalist, Agence France-Press
Topic: Afghanistan from within
AFP Pulitzer Prize winner Massoud HOSSAINI will show his work and share his experience as a photojournalist documenting the story of his own country.
Massoud HOSSAINI is a ph...
27 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Panelists:
Angie LAU
Reporter, Bloomberg Television
Mariko SANCHANTA
Senior Editor, The Wall Street Journal Asia
Asha PHILLIPS
Senior Editor, Storyful
David BANDURSKI
Researcher at China Media Project, a project of The Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong
Roy SEKOFF
...
17 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Marites Danguilan VITUG
Author / Investigative Journalist
Topic: Corruption in the Philippines: Going after the Big Fish
After two years in office, President Benigno AQUINO III appears to have made inroads in his anti-corruption program. He won on an anti-corruption platform, equating re...
