2019-2020 Autumn Term Lectures
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series
History Lecture Series: Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series
Assistant Professor Cao Yin in the History Department of Tsinghua University planned and carried out a series of lectures entitled “Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series”.
The Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series hosted by IIAS of Tsinghua University aims to provide scholars participating in the events with a platform of dialogue and learning with top scholars studying Asia history and culture from all over the world. China’s area studies have been vigorously developed in the context of the “Belt and Road” Initiative in recent years. However, the current area studies are often a rigid superposition of country studies and lack intra-regional and inter-regional connections and comparative studies. The root cause is the missing of a long-term historical/cultural perspective in current area studies in China.
The lecture series plans to organize eight lectures, inviting top scholars and young researchers in the field of Asian studies at home and abroad (the research direction covers Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and North Africa) to give special lectures and sharing on their latest research findings, and interact with graduate students at IIAS. Taking this opportunity, the organizers hope to cultivate the transnational and global perspectives of graduate students, and rethink the traditional research paradigm based on country.
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 1 | Rethinking Area Studies within a Global Framework: The Case of Asian Studies
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 2 | Zomia in Motion: The Southeast Asian Highlands and their Tibetan Implications
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 3 | Alternative Modernities: The Russian Empire and the Muslim World in the Long 19th Century
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 4 | The Theatre State Revisited: Indonesia in the Short 20th Century
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 5 | Water and the Making of Modern India
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 6 | Southeast Asia as Method: Fieldwork, Texts, and Perspectives
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 7 | Shooting an Elephant: Order, Rebellion, and Animals in Colonial Burma
Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series: Lecture 8 | A Dance of Dragon and Elephant? China and India in the Era of Post-global Capitalism
Zone Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series
Associate professor WANG Yong of Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, carried out a series of lectures entitled “Zone Economy and Economic Development” in the fall semester of 2019.
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 1| Zeng Zhihua: Park Economy in the Eyes of the World Bank
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 2 | Development of China’s Park Economy
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 3 | The Development of Special Economic Zones in Bangladesh
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 4 | Models and Strategies of Overseas Parks
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 5 | Exploration and Practice of Overseas Industrial Park Development
Park Economy and Economic Development Lecture Series: Lecture 6 | Research Methodology of Park Economy
Anthropology Lecture Series
Professor Jing Jun in the Department of sociology, Tsinghua University, planned and carried out a series of lectures entitled “Anthropology lecture series”.
In view of the clear requirements of the Doctoral Program in Developing Country Studies (DCS) at Tsinghua University that the students must engage in long-term overseas fieldwork, the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University plans to hold a series of anthropological lectures in the fall of 2019, aiming to use anthropological perspectives, methodology and empirical research cases to provide academic guidance on fieldwork for doctoral candidates in research projects in developing countries. This lecture series will be hosted by Prof. Jing Jun from the Department of Sociology of Tsinghua University as the keynote lecturer. In addition, three professors, including Xu Wei from Zhejiang University, Gao Bingzhong from Peking University and He Ming from Yunnan University, were invited as guest speakers. The events will be held at the Conference Room 205 at the Center Building of Tsinghua University. The topics and schedule of the lectures are as follows:
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 1 | History of Anthropology | Prof. Jing Jun
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 2 | Anthropological Fieldwork | Prof. Jing Jun
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 3 | Anthropological Theoretical Concern | Prof. Jing Jun
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 4 | Anthropological Reflection | Prof. Jing Jun
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 5 | Exploring the Ethnographic Studies of World Society | Prof. Gao Bingzhong
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 6 | Exploring the Ethnographic Studies of World Society | Prof. Xu Wei
Anthropology Lecture Series: Lecture 7 | Southeast Asian Anthropological Study from the Perspective of Overseas Ethnography | Prof. He Ming
Speakers
Jing Jun, Professor of Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Harvard University, Changjiang Scholars Distinguished Professor, State Council Government Special Allowance Expert. His research areas include historical memory, reservoir immigration, ecological struggle, children’s diet and nurturing, suicide, and AIDS. The research focus is on the aging of society. Academic and social organization positions include Director of the Public Health Research Center at Tsinghua University, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Research Center of AIDS at Tsinghua University, Vice Chairman of the International Federation of Anthropology and Ethnology, and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology, Vice President of the Chinese Anthropological Society and Director of China Population Welfare Foundation.
Xu Wei, Ph.D. in Anthropology and Deputy Dean of the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. Mainly engage in African studies, focusing on Southern Africa and East Africa. In 2012, she was funded by the China Scholarship Council and went to the University of Botswana for a one-year visit, and visited South Africa and Zambia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Djibouti, Zimbabwe and other countries many times. She has published more than 20 papers in world-class journals and two monographs. She has hosted the National Social Science Fund Youth Project in 2014, the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund Project in 2011 and the African Studies Center, a key research base for philosophy and social sciences in Zhejiang.
Gao Bingzhong received master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral certificates from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University, and Peking University. In 1999, he was hired as Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Peking University. He engages in folklore and intangible cultural heritage research and has published “Intangible Cultural Heritage as Public Culture” and other papers. He also engages in social organization research and has published “Social Organization Legitimacy Issues” and other articles. He has worked hard to promote overseas field survey and research on Chinese social sciences in the past 17 years, published papers such as “Overseas Ethnography and Global Society”, and led the implementation of 30 ethnographic fieldworks in more than 20 countries and regions. His team uses 15 working languages, and promoted the formation of a new direction of multidisciplinary overseas Chinese ethnography.
He Ming, Distinguished Professor of Yunnan University, Leader of the Ethnology Discipline of Yunnan University, Special Allowance Expert of the State Council, Director of the Southwest Frontier Minority Research Center of Yunnan University, Member of the Ethnology Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Anthropology President and Vice President of the Chinese Society for Ethnology. He mainly engages in research in the fields of ethnology, anthropology, and artistic anthropology, and published more than 180 papers in “Philosophical Studies”, “Ethnic Studies”, “Literature History and Philosophy”, “Development Times”, “Academic Monthly ” and other academic journals , nearly 20 of which were reprinted by “Xinhua Digest”, “Chinese Social Science Digest” and “University Liberal Arts Academic Digest”. He has published 8 academic publications and won more than 10 prizes of the Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award and the Teaching Achievement Award .
The Changing World Order and Its Significance for the Global South Lecture Series
Tim Niblock, Member of THU-IIAS Academic Committee and Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter UK, gave a series of lectures entitled “The Changing World Order and Its Significance for the Global South”.
Global South Lecture Series: Lecture 1 | The Changing World Order and Its Significance for the Global South Part 1 | Tim Niblock
Global South Lecture Series: Lecture 1 | The Changing World Order and Its Significance for the Global South Part 2 | Tim Niblock
Individual Lectures
The Middle East Seminar: The Economic Cooperation between China and Arab Countries
Egypt and Middle East: The Perspective of a Senior Diplomat | Mohamed Badri, Egyptian Ambassador
