Event Coverage
Video recordings, audio recordings, transcripts, and keynote/panel summaries from the “China and the Future of the World” conference are now available. Over the summer, domestic and international press coverage of the conference will be included on this page.
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Introduction and Faculty Opening Remarks - Watch Video • Listen
Speakers:
• Daniel Michaeli, Chair of the “China and the Future of the World” Conference
• Prasenjit Duara, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago
U.S. Business and Government Panel: Responding to the China Challenge - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Panel Summary
Speakers:
• Congressman Mark S. Kirk, Co-Chair of the U.S.-China Working Group in the House of Representatives
• Tony Lorusso, Director of the Minnesota Trade Office
• Theodore W. Schaffner, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development of Motorola
• Moderator: Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Opening Keynote: Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Keynote Summary
Welcome by Coordinating Committee and Opening Remarks on the Questions of Politics and Society in China by Professor Merle Goldman - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Summary of Remarks
Panel: Politics and Society in China - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Panel Summary
Speakers:
• Lei Guang, Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University
• Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Chair of the Asian Studies Program at Hamilton College; Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Wang Ping, Associate Professor of English at Macalester College
• Moderator: Dali Yang, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago
Keynote: Peter W. Rodman, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Keynote Summary
Panel: China, the United States and the World - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Panel Summary
Speakers:
• James R. Lilley, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Former U.S. Ambassador to China
• John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
• Wu Jianmin, President of China Foreign Affairs University and Former Chinese Ambassador to France, the UN in Geneva, and the Netherlands
• Moderator: Bruce Cumings, Norma and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago
Panel: China’s Future in the Age of Globalization - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Panel Summary
Speakers:
• Zhang Jun, Professor of Economics and Director of the China Center for Economics at Fudan University
• Ted C. Fishman, Freelance Journalist and Author of China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
• Wang Hui, Research Professor in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing
• Moderator: Prasenjit Duara, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago
Faculty Closing Remarks - Watch Video • Listen
Closing Keynote: Ambassador Wang Guangya, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations - Watch Video • Listen • Download Full Transcript • Download Keynote Summary
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