Speaker Series

Each year, the CSCC invites leading experts to Penn to present their research and share their knowledge about contemporary China. Typically scheduled for Wednesday afternoons 4:30-6 pm, speakers will deliver their remarks and then entertain questions from the audience. Attendance is open to the entire Penn community. Announcements about upcoming talks will be posted on the CSCC website and disseminated via the Center’s listserv. To be added to the listserv, please visit our signup page https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/cscc-announce.

Upcoming Speaker Series



2024

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St

Professor Wang will discuss her new book titled Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats…

Past Speaker Series



2021

Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
- Virtual talk

Please register to receive Zoom info:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/utopian-ruins-a-memorial-museum-of-the-…



2021

Subversion or Seduction? Holding China’s Economic Statecraft Accountable

China and International Relations Series
Audrye Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and MIT’s Security Studies Program
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Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.

Join Zoom Meeting

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2021

Calculating Bully: Explaining China’s Coercion

China and International Relations Series
Ketian Zhang, Assistant Professor of International Security, George Mason University
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Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://upenn.…



2021

Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis
- Virtual talk

Please register to receive Zoom info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anxious-china-inner-…



2021

Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Michael Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Virtual talk

Please register to receive Zoom info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-hong-kong-…



2020

Governing the Interface of U.S.-China Trade Relations

Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law
- Virtual talk

Please register to receive Zoom info at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/governing-the-interface-of-us-…



2020

Distinguished East Asia Lecture "A Lifetime of Adventures in East Asia"

Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University 
- Virtual Talk

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/distinguished-east-asia-lecture-a-…



2020

China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia

Daniel Markey,  Senior Research Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- Virtual Event

Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-western-horizon-beijing-and-the-…



2020

Localized Citizenship: Economic Development, Migration and Inclusion in China

Samantha Vortherms, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register to receive Zoom link at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-citizenship-and-economic-…



2020

Translation and the Virus: COVID-19, Cyber Politics and Wuhan Diary

Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
- Virtual talk via Zoom

Please register to receive Zoom link at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/translation-and-the-…