Annual Lecture in Asian Democracy
The Center for Asian Democracy’s Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy is a flagship event bringing leading thinkers, writers, activists, and diplomats to discuss pressing topics in democratization in the region. The event brings the University of Louisville together with the general public, and frequently involves collaboration with local institutional partners.
2024 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy: "Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country" with Patricia Evangelista, Trauma Journalist and former Investigative Reporter.
Previous lectures on Asian Democracy:
- 2022 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy: “Democracy, Disinformation, and the Struggle for Historical Memory” with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
- 2019 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "#MeToo Movement in China: The Rise of Feminist Resistance" with Chinese gender equality & LGBTQ activist Li Maizi
- 2018 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "Xi Jinping's Third Revolution and the Future of U.S.-China Relations" with the Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Economy
- 2017 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "Undercover in North Korea" with New York Times bestselling author Suki Kim
- 2016 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "The Road to Political Reform in China" with the Director of the China Program at The Carter Center, Dr. Yawei Liu
- 2015 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "Reflections on Myanmar’s Political Crisis: Buddhist Nationalism and Ethnic Violence" with the Founder of the Women’s Peace Action Network in Burma Activist and advocate for Rohingya refugees, Wai Wai Nu
- 2014 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - "To Fight Through Cartoons: Even My Pen Has a Stand" with Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial Cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, Zunar
- 2013 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - “In the Mouth of the Dragon: U.S. & China Relations in the 21st Century” with human rights activist and former political prisoner in China, Harry Wu
- 2012 Annual Lecture on Asian Democracy - “Reform in the ‘Golden Land’: U.S. Policy and Perspectives on Change in Burma” with Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma, Ambassador Derek J. Mitchell