Papers and presentations of James D. Seymour (partial listing):

"Maoists and Modernization," University of Connecticut Symposium on the Chinese Communist Movement, 27 March 1971

"The Deparochialization of Political Science," New York University Colloquium on Politics, 28 September 1971

"China as an Actor in World Politics," Conference on Asian Studies, State University of New York / Brockport, 7 October 1971

"Approaches to the Analysis of Chinese Foreign Policy," Columbia University Seminar on Modern China, 25 October 1972

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in Taiwan: Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, June 1974

"The Economics of Human Rights Deprivation: The Case of Taiwan," Midwest Conference in Asian Affairs, 15 October 1976

"Political Prisoners in Mainland China and Taiwan" (co-authored with Mab Huang), Association for Asian Studies conference,

30 October 1976. (Chaired panel on "Political Prisoners in East Asia")

"Human Rights as a Social Science Sub-discipline," International Studies Association, St. Louis, 18 March 1977. (Chaired panel on "Human Rights and Social Change.")

Official testimony (invitational): "Human Rights in the People's Republic of China," Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 10 February 1978

"World Federalism: The Human Rights Dimension," conference sponsored by World Federalists, New York, 14 May 1977

"Human Rights in the People's Republic of China," New York, 17 April 1978. Meeting sponsored by the National Council of Churches

"Comparative Measures of Human Rights Development," Universities of Colorado and Denver Conference on International Human Rights, 12 May 1978

"Strategy and Promise for Promoting Human Rights: The Case of Taiwan," Syracuse University Human Rights Conference, 7 October 1978

Human rights speaking tour, December-January 1977-78 (seven addresses in Japan, Taiwan, and India)

"Taiwan Politics in the Wake of Normalization," Contemporary China Workshop, Columbia University, 8 March 1979

"The Impact of Carter's China Policy," International Studies Association, Toronto, 23 March 1979

"Human Rights in Asian Societies: Culture and System," Association for Asian Studies, Washington, 23 March 1980 (organizer and chairperson of panel)

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in China: Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, and the Subcommittee on Asia and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1 October 1980

"Political Trials in China," Conference on the Trial of the "Gang of Four," New School for Social Research, 31 January 1981

"A Political Assessment of the 'Gang of Four' Trial," Rutgers University Symposium: "The Trial of the Gang of Four in China," 12 February 1981

"Human Rights in China," St. Johns University conference, 2 March 1981

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in Taiwan: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, 19 May 1981

"Modern Economics without Modern Politics: The Case of Taiwan," American Political Science Association (Northeastern regional meeting), 13 November 1981

"The Question of Democracy in China," Washington, Wilson Center conference on "The Limits of Reform in China," 3 May 1982

"The Spirit of China's May Fourth Movement: What it Means Today," Johns Hopkins University, 4 May 1982.

"The Taiwan Question: Policy Implications for the United States," meeting in Rayborn Office Building, House of Representatives, on the Taiwan question, 20 May 1982.

Spoke at press conference sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy on human rights problems in Taiwan. Senate Office Building, Washington D. C., 10 December 1982. (Represented Amnesty International.)

Spoke at press conference sponsored by Congressman Stephen Solarz (chairman, House Asia-Pacific Subcommittee), et al, on subject of martial law in Taiwan. Senate Office Building, Washington D. C., 20 May 1983. (Represented Amnesty International.)

"Human Rights and the Law in the People's Republic of China," Third International Congress of Professors World Peace Academy," Manila, Philippines, August 25, 1987.

"Human Rights and the Constitutional Order in China," American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, September 4, 1987.

"The Status of the Taiwan's Political Opposition," Asia Society Conference concerning Taiwan, September 26, 1987.

Official testimony (invitational) on human rights in China: Hearings before a plenary session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, September, 1987.

"Recent Human Rights Developments in China," Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association for Chinese Studies, Washington, October 24, 1987.

"Dulles and the Third World: An Assessment." John Foster Dulles Centennial Conference, Princeton University, February 28, 1988.

"Chinese Intellectuals and the Promotion of Democracy since the May Fourth Movement." Conference on the History of Democratic Movements in Twentieth Century China, sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, Columbia University, May 22, 1988.

"Hong Kong: The Political Challenge." Association for Asian Studies (New England), Harvard University, October 14, 1989.

"Hong Kong: The Human Rights Outlook," Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago, April, 1990.

"The Outlook for Human Rights in Hong Kong." Conference of the Canadian Association of China Scholars, Aug. 19, 1990.

"Political Imprisonment Since Tiananmen." Thirty-third International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), Toronto, August 20, 1990.

"Blue Princes: The Satellization of China's Minor Parties, and Their Behavior During the Crisis of 1989," at conference "Opposition Politics in Twentieth-Century China," Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA, September 20-22, 1990.

Presentation at workship on "The Relationship between political economic and cultural conditions, and Chinese human rights conditions," at the Second North American Community-Based Organization Conference on Human Rights and Democracy in China," Toronto, April 6-7, 1991.

"The Relationship between Political Rights and Economic Development: The Cases of China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC), at panel "Changing Relations Between Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait," sponsored by the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China in North America in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New Orleans, April 12, 1991

"China's Democracy Movement: What the Agenda Has Been Missing," at the conference on "Rights in China: What Happens Next," University of London (SOAS), June 28, 1991.

"Deconstructing the Artificial Nation State: The Implications of the Soviet Disintegration for the People's Republic of China. Conference on "Democracy and Diversity in Asia: Chinese-Tibetan Relations," New York, October 12-13, 1991

"Human Rights and Tibet: The Many Layers of Contradictions," Twentieth Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 31, 1991.

"`The Crux of the Struggle:' Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations," University Seminar on Modern China Columbia University, December 9, 1993

Official testimony (invitational) on the question of Taiwan's admission to the United Nations: Hearings before a joint session of two subcommittees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 14, 1994.

Briefing prepared for H.H. The Dalai Lama, “Current Trends in Sino-American Relations, with Special Reference to the Question of Tibet,” September 1, 1995

"New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: The Prison Systems of Northwest China." Paper presented to the University Seminar on Modern China, Columbia University, September 12, 1996.

"China's Prison System Today." Paper presented at the Oslo Conference on Crime and Control in China and the West, September 18-21, 1999.

"Thinking Realistically about Today's Prisons System in China," conference on "The Chinese Labor Camp: Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation," University of California/Riverside conference, January 15, 2000.

"Ethnic and Special Autonomy in China." Panel chair and discussant at Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 10, 2000.

“Taiwan 2000 Presidential Election,” Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, March 21, 2000.

"Mounting a Campaign for North Koreans’ Human Rights," Conference on North Korea, Seoul, December 8, 2000.

“Recent Developments in the Management of China’s Prisons,” Association for Asian studies, Mid-Atlantic Region conference, George Washington University, Washington DC, October 26, 2003

Official testimony (invitational) on the subject of China’s prisons, before the Congressional Executive Commission on China, October 27, 2003

“Why the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is Different from China’s Other Autonomous Areas,” Conference on Ethnic Autonomy in China, Hong Kong University, Feb. 21, 2006

Conference on Human Rights Education. Soochow University 東吳大學, Taipei, Taiwan, May 22-25, 2006. Keynote speech: “Human Rights: The End of Innocence.” Also panel talk: “China and the International Human Rights Regime.”

“A Hong Kong Model for Tibet?”, International Symposium on Human Rights in Tibet (sponsored by the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission), Taipei, Taiwan, September 8-9, 2007

“Christianity and Human Rights,” Kowloon Union Church, Hong Kong, November 18, 2007, http://www.kuc.hk/home.htm. Go to Sermons and Reflections, then (at bottom) December 2007.

“The Politics of Pollution: Structural Impediments to Environmental Justice in Hong Kong,” November 20, 2007, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Updated version give February 19, 2008, at the French Consulate in Hong Kong, sponsored by the Centre d'Études Français sur la Chine Contemporaine.

“Democracy, Dictatorship, and the Environment: The Case of Hong Kong,” University Seminar on Environmental Policy, Columbia University, May 7, 2008

“New Frontiers in Human Rights: Are We Going Too Far?” (人權的新境界: 過或不及?), conference on human rights education, National Changhua Normal University, Changhua, Taiwan, September 6, 2008.

“Teaching Human Rights as an Evolving Issue,” keynote speech at Soochow University東吳大學, Conference on Human Rights Education, March 13, 2009.

“Trouble Brewing Across the Himalayas: The Uneasy Sino-Indian Relationship,” Conference on “Asian Giants: The Search for Good Governance and Sustainable Development in China and India,” Hong Kong Institute of Education, 30 March 2010.

Discussant at conference “2011 Conference on Human Rights Covenants,” National Taiwan University, Taipei, 8 December 2011.