Past Talks
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