Programme
Date:
Venue:
Friday January 15 – Saturday January 16, 2016
Hall 2, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Day 1 – Friday January 15, 2016
TIME
PROGRAMME
9:30am – 9:45am
Welcoming Remarks and Opening
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
9:45am – 11:15am
Panel I – The State at the Center
Chair: Mr Robert Silvers
Professor Andrew Nathan – Columbia University
Professor Pan Wei – Peking University
Professor Wang Hui – Tsinghua University
11:15am – 11:45am
Coffee Break
11:45am – 1:15pm
Panel II – The State and Civil Society: Partnership or Containment?
Chair: Professor Kellee Tsai – The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor John P Burns – The University of Hong Kong
Dr Willy Wo-Lap Lam – The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC
Professor Liu Yu – Tsinghua University
1:15pm – 2:45pm
Lunch
2:45pm – 4:15pm
Panel III – Legal and Constitutional Reform
Chair: Professor Michael Hor – The University of Hong Kong
Professor Jerome Cohen – New York University, School of Law
Professor Fu Hualing – The University of Hong Kong
Professor Wang Zhenmin – Tsinghua University
4:15pm – 4:45pm
Coffee Break
4:45pm – 6:15pm
Panel IV – The Internet and Social Media: Disputed Territory?
Chair: Mr David Bandurski – The University of Hong Kong
Professor Yuen-Ying Chan – The University of Hong Kong
Professor Hu Yong – Peking University
Professor Perry Link – The University of California, Riverside
Day 2 – Saturday January 16, 2016
TIME
PROGRAMME
9:30am – 10:00am
Coffee
10:00am – 11:30am
Panel V – Capitalism with a Chinese face?
Chair: Professor Melanie Manion – The University of Hong Kong and Duke University
Professor Pun Ngai – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Xiao Geng – The University of Hong Kong
Panelist: Professor Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard – Copenhagen Business School
11:30am – 1:00pm
Panel VI – China and the World
Chair: Mr Simon Head – University of Oxford and New York Review of Books
Foundation
Professor Richard Hu – The University of Hong Kong
Professor Li Zhaojie – Tsinghua University
Mr Ian Johnson – The New York Review of Books Foundation
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Panel VII – China and the Future of Hong Kong
Chair: Professor Yuen-Ying Chan
Professor Sonny Lo – The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Professor Melanie Manion