On April 28, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University invited Professor Ricardo Javier Gamboa, the Deputy Director of the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile, to deliver a lecture on "Chile's Political System and Current Challenges". The event was moderated by Peiyuan Xu, Assistant Professor at IIAS. More than 50 attendees pa...

From March 19th to March 29th, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University hosted a series of lectures titled “Inequality and Social Policies in Latin America in Turbulent Times”, delivered by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Professor of the Political Economy of Development from the University of Oxford. The lecture series comprised four lectures, each explori...

On the afternoon of December 15, 2023, the Lecture on Eurasia Studies of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University, "The 'Second Middle Ground' and the 1964 Sino-German Berne Talks", was held online via the Tencent Conference Platform. The speaker of this lecture is Ge Jun, associate professor of the Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism, East Ch...

On the evening of November 8, 2023, the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University held the third lecture in the series of “Frontier Issues in Latin American Political Research”, titled “Colombia Facing its International and Domestic Challenges: historical precedents and expectations”. The lecture was delivered by Professor Eduardo Pastrana of the Pontifical X...

On the afternoon of July 10, 2023, Dr. Sophie Chao, Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s Department of Anthropology, delivered an online lecture titled “Plantation Expansion, Food Sovereignty, and the Cultural Meanings of Hunger in West Papua” to the faculty and students within and outside of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS), Tsinghua University, and later, communica...

From May 17 to June 20, 2023, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University hosted the “Critical Approaches to the Studies of Eurasia” lecture series, which was delivered by Dr. Catherine Owen, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, University of Exeter's Penryn Campus. The lecture series consisted of six lectures, namely, “Pers...

On the morning of June 13, 2023, Mr. Sudheendra Kulkarni, renowned Indian scholar, founder of the Forum for a New South Asia in Mumbai and erstwhile aide to former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, delivered a lecture titled India-China Relations and Mutual Civilisational Learning to the faculty and students within and outside of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIA...

On the afternoon of June 7, 2023, the Institute for International and Area Studies of Tsinghua University (IIAS-THU) held Lecture 23 of Liangxiang Forum in Room 205 of the Central Main Building. The lecture, titled "Negotiation and Conciliation in West Asia: the Case of Iraq", featured Mr. Gareth Stansfield, Professor of Middle East Politics and Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean (HASS) of ...

The lecture was delivered by Dr. Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh. Yin Zhiguang, Professor at the School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University and Dr. Catherine Owen, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus, were the disscussants.