About the Event

In this symposium, a panel of experts will discuss how Hong Kong’s civil society organizations, mass media, and the diaspora have adapted and transformed in the wake of the National Security Law. In this symposium, a panel of experts will discuss how Hong Kong’s civil society organizations, mass media, and the diaspora have adapted and transformed in the wake of the National Security Law. 

Joseph Chan

has taught at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong Kong for three decades. He was founding director of the Center for Civil Society and Governance in the Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU from 2003 to 2009. He is currently a Global Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, and will be a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan from February 2023.

Eric Yan-Ho Lai

is formerly the Hong Kong Law Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, and currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. He is also a member of the Asian Civil Society Research Network in the University of Melbourne, and a convenor of Hong Kong Studies Association in the UK. As a PhD researcher in law, his research focuses on law and politics, law and social movement, legal activism and international human rights. 

 

Francis L.F. Lee

is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He works mainly in the areas of journalism studies, political communication, and media and social movements. His publications include Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (Oxford University Press, 2018). He is currently chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication. He is also an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association. 

Diana Fu

is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto and non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution. Her research portfolio includes civil society, repression, authoritarian citizenship, diaspora activism, and labor politics, She is the author of the award-winning book, Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China (Cambridge, 2018). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College.