CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections

The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas presents a webcast session with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, followed by a discussion with David Lampton.

China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss these issues with leading experts. The fifth annual CHINA Town Hall will be held at 7:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 16, 2011.

The National Committee is pleased to present this program, which will feature a webcast by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor, followed by local presentations from on-site China specialists addressing topics of particular interest to the community. Each program is cosponsored by the National Committee and a local organization(s). CHINA Town Hall is generously underwritten by the Starr Foundation.

From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to the president of the United States. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.”

Before his government service, Dr. Brzezinski was on the faculty of Harvard University (1953-60) and Columbia University (1960-69). He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McGill and his doctorate from Harvard.

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2011 China Town Hall Venues

Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO)
David Gries, China Vitae

Center for China Studies, Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Erin Ennis, U.S.-China Business Council; Yu Keping, Peking University, and Xiaobo Hu, Clemson University

Center for China Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Panel Discussion

Channel City Club (Santa Barbara, CA)
Amy Celico, Albright Stonebridge Group

The City of Baltimore-Office of the Mayor, with the Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee (Baltimore, MD)
Robert Goldberg, The Scowcroft Group

Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Katherine Kaup, Furman University

Concordia College (Moorhead, MN)
Wenran Jiang, University of Alberta

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Guobin Yang, Barnard College

Crane House, the Asia Institute, with the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
Henry Levine, Albright Stonebridge Group

Cranford High School (Cranford, NJ)
Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall University Law School

Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (Dallas, TX)
Banning Garrett, Asia Program, Atlantic Council

Dayton Council on World Affairs (Dayton, OH)
Margaret Karns, University of Dayton
Laura Luehrmann, Wright State University
Andrew Lai, Wright State University

East Asia Institute, University of Oklahoma - Schusterman Campus (Tulsa, OK)
Robert Day, University of Maryland

Fordham Law School (New York, NY)
Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Hastings College of the Law, University of California (San Francisco, CA)
Nicholas Howson, University of Michigan Law School

Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University

Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
Jennifer Turner, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center

International Relations Council of Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Teng-Kee Tan, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (Denver, CO)
Steve Lang, U.S. Department of State

Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (Madison, WI)
Douglas Spelman, Kissinger Institute

Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
Darryl Johnson, Former U.S. Ambassador

Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
Christine Boyle, University of North Carolina

Northwest China Council (Portland, OR)
Melinda Herrold-Menzies, Pitzer College and Claremont Colleges

Pacific Forum Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (Honolulu, HI)
Ira Kasoff, APCO Worldwide

Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA)
Thomas Kellogg, Open Society Institute

South Dakota World Affairs Council (Brookings, SD)
Merritt (Terry) Cooke, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia and T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University

Suffolk University (Boston, MA)
Allen Carlson, Cornell University

University at Buffalo, State University of New York (Buffalo, NY)
Peter Geithner, Asia Center at Harvard University

University of Connecticut School of Business - Stamford (Stamford, CT)
Janet Carmosky, China Business Network

University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Mark Frazier, University of Oklahoma

University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)
Renqiu Yu, Purchase College, State University of New York

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy (Salt Lake City, UT)
I. Allen Barber II, Denver-Hainan Corporation

World Affairs Council of Arizona (Scottsdale, AZ)
Michael McCune, Iconoculture

World Affairs Council of Atlanta, with Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
Richard McGregor, Financial Times

World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, with the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
Jamie Horsley, Yale Law School

World Affairs Council of New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, with Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Kevin Nealer, The Scowcroft Group

World Affairs Council of Northern California (San Francisco, CA)
Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center