EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4-6 p.m. EDT (2000-2200 GMT) Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014

EVENT: The inaugural naming ceremony for the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan will include a panel discussion about the “Prospects and challenges in U.S.-China relations.”

Introductions will be provided by Mary Gallagher, director of the Lieberthal-Rogel China Center. The panel’s moderator will be Kenneth Lieberthal, a U-M professor emeritus and senior fellow in foreign policy and global economy and development at the Brookings Institution.

The panelists will include:

• Daniel Rosen, founding partner of the Rhodium Group, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
• Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Alastair Iain Johnston, the Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine professor of China in world affairs at Harvard University.
• J. Stapleton Roy, U.S. ambassador to Singapore (1984-86), China (1991-95) and Indonesia (1996-99), founding director and current distinguished scholar at the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

A live webstream of the event will be available at: http://ummedia05.miserver.it.umich.edu/itsComm/ccs/its.html

PLACE: Rackham Building, Amphitheatre, Fourth Floor, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor