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...

On May 15, 2024, at 19:00 Beijing time, Professor Ghani-ur-Rahman, Director of the Taxila Institute for Asian Civilizations at Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan, delivered an online academic lecture titled "Gandharan Legacies: Exploring the Intersection of History, Art, and Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Pakistan." The lecture was hosted by Dr. Liu Bei, the Ph.D. candidate at Institute for...

On May 30, 2024, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the second lecture of the 20223-2024 spring semester “Staffing and the formation of an 'Pockets of Effectiveness': the case of institutional reform in the Uganda National Roads Authority”. The lecture was held both ...

The 25th session of the Liangxiang Forum of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University took place on the afternoon of April 30, 2024, in room 327 of the Central Main Building. The theme of the session was "Rwanda's Journey to Unity, Reconciliation, and Economic Development after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi." The lecture was delivered by H.E. James Kim...

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...

On the afternoon of April 26, 2024, the 26th lecture of the "Liangxiang Forum Lecture" of the Institute for International and Area Studies of Tsinghua University was held online, with the theme of "Catching Up in Value Chains: New Developments in the Textiles and Clothing Industry in Asia". The lecture was given by Rajah Rasiah, Executive Director of the Institute of Asia-Europe Studies of the ...

On April 19, 2024, from 14:00 to 17:00, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University hosted the first lecture of the 20223-2024 spring semester, with the theme of “China's Public Health Experience in Africa”. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Wang Duoquan, Researcher/Deputy Director of the National Institute of...