The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...

Somini Sengupta, currently the international climate correspondent for The New York Times, tells the stories of communities and landscapes most vulnerable to the effects of climate change — reporting from the front lines of the climate crisis, and recently focusing more and more on both China and...

Kelly James Clark, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), is former Senior Research Fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford University, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of Notre Dame. ...

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...

Mei Fong is an author and journalist, whose work covering Hong Kong and China earned her a shared Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Her stories on China’s migrant workers also won a 2006 Human Rights Press Award from Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Correspondents Club, as well a...

Fenggang Yang is Professor of Sociology and the founding Director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, as well as the founding Editor of the Review of Religion and Chinese Society. He was elected and served as the President of the Society fo...

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...

Having served as a key adviser to President Trump on U.S. strategy toward China, Michael Pillsbury is senior fellow and director for Chinese strategy at Hudson Institute. A distinguished defense policy adviser and former high-ranking government official, he is the author of numerous books and rep...

Robin R. Wang is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and The Berggruen Fellow (2016-17) at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University. Her teaching and research center on Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, particularly o...

Wu Fei is a classically trained composer, vocalist and a renowned master of the guzheng — the 21-string Chinese zither. She has performed at venues as diverse as Beijing’s Forbidden City, Shanghai’s Expo 2010, New York’s MoMA, Vossa Jazz in Norway, the Europalia Festival in Belgium, and the Big E...

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...

Dexter Tiff Roberts is an award-winning writer and speaker on China now serving as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative, a fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, and an adjunct instructor in political science at the University of Montana. Previously, he was C...

Presented alongside the Chautauqua Lecture Series, Ma Jian’s work — an unflinching satire of totalitarianism — offers a counternarrative to the sweeping “China Dream” of President Xi Jinping’s administration. The novel exposes the damage inflicted on a nation’s soul when authoritarian regimes, dr...

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair, with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st Century America, and has since emerged as one of the nation’s...