Flash Panel: Hong Kong in Crisis
Since May, Hong Kong has seen ongoing protests, beginning with demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill proposed by the government and continuing as a pro-democracy movement. It is estimated that the protests have attracted two million people – two out of seven residents of the 7.5 million people who live in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. This flash panel of experts and eyewitnesses will examine the causes of the continued dissent, Beijing’s potential response, and how the protests may affect Hong Kong’s future.
Panelists:
Victoria Hui, Associate Professor Political Science and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
Lionel Jensen, Associate Professor East Asian Languages and Cultures and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
James Luk '21, Kellogg International Scholar
Maggie Shum, Research Associate, Keough School of Global Affairs and former Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate
Yidi Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Saint Mary’s College
Moderator: A. James McAdams, William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and Kellogg Faculty Fellow
Cosponsored with the Keough School of Global Affairs, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, in collaboration with Saint Mary's College.
Victoria Tin-bor Hui
Victoria Tin-bor Hui is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. She examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history, comparative state formation and state-society relations, contentious politics and resistance movements, political culture, Asian and Confucian values, and Chinese politics...
Lionel M. Jensen
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Lionel M. Jensen is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. His research is identified closely with the intellectual history of “Confucianism”; however, his interests and published work extend from ancient, through medieval, modern and even contemporary topics...
James Luk ‘21
This profile was current as of 2021, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. James Luk is continuing to co-author an article on self-censorship in Hong Kong with Professor Michel Hockx. Luk has previously worked on literature reviews for academic articles on cultural policy in China. His work contributed to creating a database of censorship theory and methodology...
A. James McAdams
A. James McAdams is the William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and former director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies from 2002-2018. He has written widely on European, especially central European, affairs. His new project, "The New Messiahs," examines the thinking of such post-Leninist theorists as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt, Bruno Bosteels, Antonio Negri, and Costas Douzinas...