1 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 1, 2015
7:00pm – dinner
1st Floor
Speaker: Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow
The U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
China in the 1990s was a paradox. In the wake of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, political repression intensified. At the same time, however, fol...
27 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Associate Professor, Kyoto University
The military staged a coup on 22 May 2014, overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. For decades, the traditional e...
21 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Charlie Jeffery
Senior Vice-Principal, Chair of Politics
University of Edinburgh
The failure of either Labour or the Conservatives to open up a clear lead, the likely severe losses of the Liberal Demo...
20 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club Dinner: "Sailing Through Troubled Waters," a film about the disputed Spratly Islands
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:00pm – dinner
1st Floor
Speaker: Tomas Etzler
Emmy Award Winner and Documentary Filmmaker
"Sailing Through Troubled Waters" was a 22-minute film by Tomas Etzler that focuses on a ...
18 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, May 18, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Michael DeGolyer
The 1989 Tiananmen bloody crackdown occurred during the first school year Professor DeGolyer taught in Hong Kong. Occupy Central came during his last year of teaching. When the speaker ...
14 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 14, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Fully Booked
Speaker: Bill Majcher
Investigator
After over 25 years at the global forefront of money laundering and financial crimes, Mr. Majcher shared his observations on the prevalence and ease by which illicit capit...
13 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Fully Booked
Speaker: Dr. Willy Lam
Adjunct Professor, Masters of Global Political Economy Program
Faculty of Social Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Veteran Sinologist Willy Lam, who had just published Ch...
11 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, May 11, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Tobias Brandner
Prison Chaplain
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prisons were public institutions that are, for various reasons, not accessible to ...
7 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 7, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Chandran Nair
Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow
The Other Hundred Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit book by the Global Institute for Tomorrow, was about the people who have never written a forma...
6 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Matt Friedman
CEO, The Mekong Club
Every five seconds, a person enters slavery somewhere in the world. It was estimated that there are over 35 million people trapped in slavery. Roughly two-thirds, or 23.5 mill...
