On the afternoon of November 19, 2024, the independent lecture "European Competitiveness in Turbulent Times: Focus on Innovation" organized by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS), Tsinghua University was held online. The lecture was given by Marzenna Anna Weresa, Professor at the Institute of World Economy, Warsaw School of Economics. It attracted the participation of docto...

On the morning of November 6, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted a hybrid online and offline lecture titled "Evolutionary Paradigms and Modeling Approaches in Transboundary River Basin Management." The lecture was delivered by Professor Zhao Jianshi at the School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, and moderated by PhD student Tan ...

On October 28, 2024, from 14:00 am to 16:00, Center for Sub-Saharan African Studies of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the second lecture of the 2024-2025 autumn semester “The Transformation of China's Foreign aid to International Development Cooperation”. The lecture was held both online and offline and was delivered by Wang Luo, Director...

On October 22th, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (hereinafter referred to as IIAS) at Tsinghua University invited Andy Baker, Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, to give a lecture on the topic “Does Trade Improve a Country’s Image Abroad? Experimental Evidence for the Gentle Commerce Hypothesis”. The lecture was hosted by Zhou Yan, Assistant Professor ...

On the afternoon of October 14, 2024, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted an online lecture titled "Relational Area Studies: Russia and the Geographies of Knowledge". The speaker was Dr. Ammon Cheskin, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. The event drew participation from IIAS doctoral students a...

On October 11, 2024, from 15:00 pm to 17:00 pm, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the first lecture of the 2024-2025 autumn semester “Ahmadiyya in West Africa: Global Islam and African Local Motility”. The lecture was held both online and offline and was delivered by Dr. Deng Zheyuan, Lectur...

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...