10 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Robert SUTTER
Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Topic: China's Rise in Asian and World Affairs
Mr. SUTTER will examine China’s rise in Asia and will aim to show that China remains encumbered and far from having the leading position. His...
8 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen KING
Group Chief Economist & Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation Research, HSBC
Topic: Losing control: the emerging threats to western prosperity
As the economic giants of Asia and elsewhere have awakened, Western leaders have increasingly struggled to maintain economic...
7 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Aidan FOSTER-CARTER
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Leeds University
Consultant, writer and broadcaster on Korea
Topic: South Korea's transformation: a new global power?
Still bizarrely classified by some as an ‘emerging’ market, South Korea last year exported more goods than the UK. Th...
3 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Edward STOKES
Founder Director, The Photographic Heritage Foundation
Topic: Hong Kong nature landscapes: of what value?
Is Hong Kong merely an urban and economic phenomenon? This illustrated talk will offer one photographer’s answer.
The Photographic Heritage Foundation was launched at t...
2 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark O’NEILL
Veteran China Correspondent and Journalist
Topic: The Biggest NGO in the Chinese World: the Tzu Chi Foundation
Mr. O'NEILL will share the story behind the Tzu Chi Foundation, the largest NGO in the Chinese world, with 10 million members, branches in nearly 50 countries and w...
1 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jerome COHEN
NYU Law Professor; Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations
Counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Topic: How to improve China's soft power - and America's?
"Soft Power" depends on more than Confucius Institutes. A nation's reputation for justi...
28 May 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Michael PALIN
Actor / Author
Topic: Travelling on television
Since embarking on Around The World In Eighty Days in September 1988 Michael has made seven series for the BBC in different parts of the world. He will be talking particularly about the birth of the series, the way that the sty...
25 May 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Kumi NAIDOO
International Executive Director, Greenpeace
Topic: Can China and the BASIC countries save the climate?
The United Nations Copenhagen climate summit was an historical failure. People were all expecting so much but in the end it disappointed everyone. The Copenhagen Accord mer...
13 May 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Thitinan PONGSUDHIRAK
Political scientist at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University
Visiting fellow at Stanford University’s CDDRL-Humanities Center
Topic: Thailand’s withdrawal symptoms: democracy and monarchy in transition
Thailand’s political brinkmanship has reached a crescendo. Violence...
10 May 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Johan BJORKSTEN
Author / Chairman of Eastwei Relations
Topic: Promoting foreign brands in nationalistic China
There are a lot of books about doing business in China – but Johan BJORKSTEN’s experience is unusual: armed only with a degree in Chinese and some contacts in the local media, he...
