On September 26, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University invited Maitrii Aung-Thwin, Associate Professor of the Department of History of the National University of Singapore, to give a themed lecture entitled "Myanmar Political Crisis in Historical Perspective: 1948-2024". The lecture was hosted by Li Yuqing, Assistant Researcher of IIAS, and attende...

From September 4th to September 26th, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (hereinafter referred to as IIAS) at Tsinghua University invited Lúcio Rennó, Dean of the Graduate School and Tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Brasilia, to give a series of lectures on the topic “Comparative Political Behavior: Elections in Latin America”. The lect...

On June 21, 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the forth lecture of the 2023-2024 spring semester. The lecture, titled “The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make” was delivered by J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor o...

On June 19th, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted a lecture titled "Industrialization and Deindustrialization in Brazil", delivered by Professor Paulo Roberto Feldmann, a professor at the School of Economics, Management, Accounting, and Actuarial Science at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. The lecture was moderated by Huiling Ye, a P...

On June 17, 2024, from 14:00 to 16:00, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the third lecture of the 2023-2024 spring semester. The lecture, titled “Behind the Development Miracle: Consociational Democracy in Mauritius,” was delivered by Sheena Sookrajowa Sheetal, Senior Lecturer in Political Sc...

On the afternoon of June 7, 2024, the Independent Lecture on Eurasian Studies of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University，entitled "Fragile Alliance: The Historical Lineage of the Sino-Soviet-North Korean Triangle," was held offline. The speaker of this lecture is Shen Zhihua, Director of the Center for Eurasian Studies of the Institute for International a...

On June 5th, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted a lecture titled "21st Century Politics in Latin America: Re-politicisation and Democratic Tensions", delivered by Dr. Juan Pablo Ferrero, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath, United Kingdom. The lectu...

On May 30, 2024, at 17:00 Beijing time, Dr. Achyut Wagle, Professor of Economics and Registrar of Kathmandu University, delivered an online academic lecture on the topic of "Geopolitical Perspective on Nepal's Future Economic Development" to the students and teachers of Tsinghua University, which was hosted by Dr. Lei Dingkun, Assistant professor of the Institute for International and Area Stud...

On May 27, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies of Tsinghua University invited Farish A. Noor, a professor of political science at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FOSS) of the International Islamic University of Indonesia, to give a lecture entitled "The Visuals of Empire: The Invention of the Stereotype of the 'Backward Native' in Colonial Photos and Postcards". The lecture w...