Public Talks
Recordings and Speaking Notes
The Altruistic Authoritarian Citizen? Understanding (Non-)Participation in Philanthropic and Voluntaristic Activities in Contemporary China [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
Approaching Maturity: The Role of Knowledge and Professionalization in the Development of Chinese NGOs [powerpoint]
The Beijing Consensus: An Alternative Model of Policy? [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
Is Canada Shaping a New Model for Managing the Refugee Crisis? [video] [podcast]
Changing Sources of Popular Legitimacy Amongst China's Citizenry [powerpoint]
China’s Conception of Conflict Management and Peacebuilding [powerpoint]
Citizens’ Support for Economic Governance Approaches in Contemporary China [powerpoint]
Civic Engagement, Volunteerism and Philanthropy in Contemporary China [podcast] [powerpoint]
Communities of Practice and the NGO Sector in China [powerpoint]
The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China [powerpoint]
The Contemporary (Dis)Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Xinjiang [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
The Cyber Technology Dilemma: Explaining the EU’s Gestaltian Approach to China and its Implications for Future Engagement [powerpoint]
The Decline of Democracy and Advance of Autocracy [video] [podcast]
Discourse, Deliberation and Difference in an Authoritarian Public Sphere [powerpoint]
The Discretionary Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in China’s Welfare System [powerpoint]
Does Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Matter in the Workplace? [powerpoint]
Does Naming and Shaming China on Human Rights Work? [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
The Education of Ethnic Minorities in China [powerpoint]
The Ethnic Penalty in the Labour Market: Prevalence, Causes and Policy Options [podcast] [powerpoint]
European Migrants and Integration in the Labour Market [video] [podcast]
The Evolution of Policy Experimentation in China [powerpoint]
The Expansion of Chinese NGOs in Africa: A Threat or New Collaborator for Nations? [powerpoint]
Getting Rich But Not Giving? Exploring the Mechanisms Impeding Charitable Giving in China [powerpoint]
The Growth and Development of Chinese NGOs Domestically and Abroad [podcast] [powerpoint]
How China Sees the World in 2023 [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
How China Sees the World in 2024 [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
Humor as a Form of Networked Practice in the Chinese Cyber Public Sphere [powerpoint]
The Impact of the European Union’s Policy Towards China’s Intellectual Property Regime [powerpoint]
The Interactions and Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing, China [powerpoint]
Managing Diversity in the Organization [powerpoint]
Rethinking Global Civil Society in an Era of a Rising China [powerpoint]
The Saliency of 'White Privilege' in a Multicultural Society [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
Saying Sorry: How States Can Effectively Apologize (And Have A Long-lasting Positive Effect On The Aggrieved Party) [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
Understanding State-Society Relations Through Corporatist Eyes [powerpoint]
What Drives Contemporary EU-China Strategic Engagement? [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
What Explains a Lack of Local State-NGO Collaboration? [video] [podcast] [powerpoint]
What Explains the Rise of Ethnic Minority Tensions in China? [video] [podcast]
2025
Arthur W. Page Society (New York City, USA and Beijing, China)
China Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
China Studies Centre, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium)
Department of European Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Europe (Warsaw, Poland)
Department of Political Science, Middlebury College (Middlebury, USA)
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Boston, USA)
US-China Institute, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA)
School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
2024
Academy of International Affairs NRW (Bonn, Germany)
Asia Centre, Leiden University (Leiden, Netherlands)
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Vancouver, Canada)
Burkle Center for International Relations, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, USA)
Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (Vancouver, Canada)
Center for East Asian Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
China Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Foreign Policy Association (New York City, USA)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Department of Political Science, Ashoka University (Sonipat, India)
Elcano Royal Institute (Madrid, Spain)
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, USA)
Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany)
The Oxford Union Society (Oxford, UK)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
2023
Antwerp Management School (Antwerp, Belgium)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
China Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University (Riga, Latvia)
China Studies Centre, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
Department of Chinese Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris, France)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria)
Department of Political Science, Middlebury College (Middlebury, USA)
Department of Political Science, University College London (London, UK)
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing, China)
Institute for Cultural Studies of East and South Asia, University of Wurzburg (Wurzburg, Germany)
Institute for Peace and Diplomacy (Toronto, Canada)
The Law School, University of Wisconsin at Madison (Madison, USA)
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA)
2022
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
Centre for International Studies and Development, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland)
China Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Department of Political Science, Middlebury College (Middlebury, USA)
Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland)
Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)
School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
2021
China Institute, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
City of Edmonton (Edmonton, Canada)
Department of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China)
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia (Kelowna, Canada)
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland)
Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Geneva, Switzerland)
School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
2020
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
City of Edmonton (Edmonton, Canada)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Department of Political Science, Riga Stradins University (Riga, Latvia)
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
2019
The China Centre, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK)
The China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK)
Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Warsaw, Poland)
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University (Kingston, Canada)
Embassy of Canada in China (Beijing, China)
Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
UK Department of International Trade (London, UK)
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (London, UK)
2018
Department of Asian and Policy Studies, Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
Embassy of Canada in China (Beijing, China)
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing, China)
School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California at San Diego (San Diego, USA)
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (London, UK)
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (New York City, USA)
2017
Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University (Princeton, USA)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Gottingen (Gottingen, Germany)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
Embassy of Switzerland in China (Beijing, China)
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing, China)
Free University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations (Geneva, Switzerland)
Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
University Service Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2016
Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville (Louisville, USA)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum (Bochum, Germany)
Global Affairs Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada)
School of Sociology, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
University of Alberta Association of Professors Emeriti Current Affairs Group (Edmonton, Canada)
University Service Center for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2015
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University (Palo Alto, USA)
Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University (Boston, USA)
Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
Chatham House (London, UK)
Department of Economics, Bates College (Lewiston, USA)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Embassy of Switzerland in China (Beijing, China)
Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing, China)
School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California at San Diego (San Diego, USA)
School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University (Miami, USA)
School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK)
2014
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
China in Focus Forum, University of Warwick (Warwick, UK)
China Studies Centre, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
The Conference Board of Canada (Edmonton, Canada)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing, China)
Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan)
Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State University (Columbus, USA)
Mercator Institute for China Studies (Berlin, Germany)
The Mosaic Institute (Calgary and Toronto, Canada)
School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University (Newcastle, UK)
2013
Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, USA)
Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA)
Department of Economics, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK)
Department of Government, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA)
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago (Chicago, USA)
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham (Nottingham, UK)
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China)
Migration and Diversity Centre, Vrije University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK)
The Oxford Hub (Oxford, UK)
2012
Brotherhood of St. Laurence (Melbourne, Australia)
Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (London, UK)
Chunqiu Institute (Shanghai, China)
Contemporary China Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand)
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Institute for the Development of Central China, Wuhan University (Wuhan, China)
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, USA)
Lau China Institute, King’s College, University of London (London, UK)
School of Economics, Minzu University of China (Beijing, China)
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK)
School of Marxism, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
School of Sociology, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
2011
Asia Institute, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
China Studies Centre, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (London, UK)
Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, USA)
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China)
University College, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
2010
China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
College of Arts, University of Western Sydney (Sydney, Australia)
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton, USA)
Department of Sociology, University of Victoria (Victoria, Canada)
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
2009
Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College (Hanover, USA)
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)
2007
Academia Sinica (Taipei, ROC)
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
2006
Center for American Studies, Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
Institute of Contemporary Observation (Shenzhen, China)
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China)
Institute for Regional Studies, International University of Kagoshima (Kagoshima, Japan)
Robinson College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)