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...

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...