First held in 1988, the lecture is named in honor of Charles Neuhauser, a China specialist who worked for the CIA and at the Center for East Asian Research (the forerunner of the Fairbank Center) from 1966 to 1967. After Charles died unexpectedly in 1987, his brother, Paul, established the lecture series with encouragement from the late Michael Oksenberg.
Free and open to the public, the lecture series – which aims to reflect the concerns of Neuhauser, including the importance of maintaining bridges between the worlds of government, policy, the intelligence community, and the university world – will be followed by a reception in the concourse area.