Day 1 (January 15, 2016)
       
  Day 1 Speakers' Biography  
     
  Welcoming Remarks and Opening  
 

Speakers:

Professor Peter Mathieson
President and Vice Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong

Mr Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Fritt Ord

Mr Robert Silvers
Editor, The New York Review of Books Foundation

 
       
 
 
  Panel I: The State at the Center  
     
  NYR video link  
   
 

Chair:

Mr. Robert Silvers

 
 

Speakers:

Professor Andrew Nathan
Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Professor Pan Wei 潘維教授
Director, Center for Chinese & Global Affairs, School of International Studies
Peking University

Professor Wang Hui 汪暉教授
Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature
School of Humanities, Tsinghua University

 
       
 
 
  Panel II: The State and Civil Society: Partnership or Containment?  
     
  NYR video link  
   
 

Chair:

Professor Kellee Tsai
Division Head and Chair Professor
Divison of Social Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 
 

Speakers:

Professor John P Burns
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

Dr Willy Wo-Lap Lam 林和立博士
Adjunct Professor, Department of History and Center for China Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Senior Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation

Professor Liu Yu 劉瑜教授
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tsinghua University

 
       
 
 
  Panel III: Legal and Constitutional Reform  
     
  NYR video link  
   
 

Chair:

Professor Michael Hor
Dean, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

 
 

Speakers:

Professor Jerome Cohen
Professor, School of Law, New York University

Professor Fu Hualing 傅華伶教授
Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Wang Zhenmin 王振民教授
Professor and Dean, School of Law, Tsinghua University

 
       
 
 
  Panel IV: The Internet and Social Media: Disputed Territory?  
     
  NYR video link  
   
 

Chair:

Mr David Bandurski
Researcher of China Media Project, Journalism and Media Studies Centre
The University of Hong Kong

 
 

Speakers:

Professor Yuen-Ying Chan 陳婉瑩教授
Director & Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre
The University of Hong Kong

Professor Hu Yong 胡泳教授
Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Peking University

Professor Perry Link
Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching
Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
University of California, Riverside

 
       
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