Current Lectures
We will soon present you with more inspirational public lectures!
Past Lectures
(RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR MOST)
2024 Fall Public Lecture
Dr. Lian Xi presented lecture about the book “Blood Letters.“
2024 April Public Lecture
I’Ching Thomas of OM International presented the inspirational lecture “Human Flourishing in Confucian Thought: A Christian Response by I’Ching Thomas“.
2024 June Public Lecture
Professor Jose Casanova, Ph.D. delivered lecture “The Three Phases of the Globalization of Catholicism in Asia“.
2023 Fall Public Lecture
Speaker Brad Vaughn, Ph.D. (formerly “Jackson Wu“) presented lecture “Honor and Shame: Salvation in a Chinese Context“.
2023 Spring Public Lecture
Dr. Daryl Ireland from Boston University presented the lecture “Spreading the Gospel: Christian Posters in Early 20th Century China“.
2023 Winter/Spring Public Lecture
Dr. Ian Johnson, the author of “Souls of China: the Return of Religion After Mao,“ presented the lecture “China’s New Civil Religion: a Challenge and Opportunity for the West“.
2022 Fall Public Lecture
Dr. Richard Cook, the author of “Darkest Before Dawn: A Brief History of Christianity in China,“ presented the lecture “Out of the Darkness Into the Light of the Global Stage: Protestant Churches in China After 1979“.
2022 June Public Lecture
Dr. Fenggang Yang from Purdue University presented lecture “Where are the Churches in China and Why?“.
2022 March Public Lectures
China's transformation since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 has been dramatic. Paul P. Mariani, S.J. from Santa Clara University presented the lecture “The Rise of China: What It Means for the Church”.
2021 Fall Public Lectures
China scholar and Cornell University history professor Dr. John Barwick presented “Chinese Christians and the Path to Liberal Modernity in China, 1900-1949”.