Past Talks
Image: Harry Shum
March 26, 2025: After Repression: The Impacts of Confession Propaganda upon Failed Uprisings
Speaker : Ruilin Lai, Washington University in St. Louis
Discussant : Haifeng Huang, Ohio State University
February 27/28, 2025: An Entangled Approach to Peoplehood in Hong Kong and Puerto Rico
Speaker : Kai Yui Samuel Chan, Harvard University
Discussant : Joseph Cho Wai Chan, Academia Sinica
January 31, 2025: Mobilization in Exile: Comparing Transnational Activism by Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Activists
Speaker : Diana Fu, University of Toronto
Discussant : Dana Moss, University of Notre Dame
December 6, 2024: Protest Walls: Co-authoring Contentious Repertoires
Speaker : Yao-Tai Li, University of New South Wales
Discussant : Jonathan Pinckney, University of Texas
November 15, 2024: Reimagine, Restructure, and Reconnect: the Hong Kong Diaspora and its Transnational Engagement
Speaker : Joseph Cho Wai Chan, Academia Sinica
Speaker : Lake Lui, National Taiwan University
Speaker : Maggie Shum, Penn State Erie
September 27, 2024: Making Sense of the Autocratization Process in Hong Kong
Speaker : Eliza W.Y. Lee, University of Hong Kong
Discussant : Sing Ming, Formerly of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
April 26, 2024: Legal Resistance under the Shadow of Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Post-Umbrella Hong Kong
Speaker : Eric Yan-ho Lai, Georgetown University
Discussant : Jothie Rajah, American Bar Foundation
March 29, 2024: When Nation Building Fails: How Chinese People React To The Rise Of Hong Kong Identity
Speaker : Gary Leung, Yale University
Discussant : Siu-yau LEE, Hong Kong Baptist University
February 26, 2024: A Tale of Two Cities: Spillover Effects of Electoral Shocks in Non-democratic Regimes
Speaker : Chan Ka Ming, Newcastle University
Discussant : Nick Or, The City University of Hong Kong
January 26, 2024: Punch Down Doxxing: HKLEAKS and the Implications of State-sponsored Doxxing for Digital Authoritarianism
Speaker : Lokman Tsui, Citizen Lab
Discussant : Justin Chun-ting Ho, Amsterdam School of Commmunication Research
December 1, 2023: The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings
Speaker : Eddy Yeung, Emory University
Discussant : Daniel Mattingly, Yale University
October 27, 2023: Lightning Round: The Challenges and Opportunities in Conducting Survey Research on Hong Kongers at Home and Abroad
Speaker : Polly Chan, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker : Maggie Shum, Penn State Erie
Speaker : Gary Tang, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Sept 22, 2023: The Effect of State Repression on Online Dissent: The Case of Hong Kong National Security Law
Speaker : Justin Chun-ting Ho, Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Discussant : Tetsuro Kobayashi, Waseda University
May 12, 2023: Dictator’s Commitment Problem in a Protest-Repression Nexus: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement
Speaker : Hans Tung, National Taiwan University
Discussant : Eddy Yeung, Emory University
Apr 28, 2023: In Sight, In Mind: Spatial Proximity to Protest Sites and Changes in Peoples’ Political Attitudes
Speaker : Duoduo Xu, University of Hong Kong
Discussant : Ye Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mar 17/18, 2023: Violent Repression, Relational Positions, and Emotional Mechanisms in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement
Speaker : Chit Wai John Mok, UC Irvine
Discussant: Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA
Feb 17, 2023: Resistance from Afar: Evolution of Contentious Repertoires in Hong Kong Diaspora’s Transnational Mobilization during the 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement
Speaker : Maggie Shum, Penn State Erie
Discussant : Samson Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Jan 20, 2023: The Logic of Cross-Boundary Actions: Digital Mobilization in the 2019 Hong Kong Social Movement
Speaker : King-wa Fu, University of Hong Kong
Discussant : Ji Yeon Hong, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor