On the afternoon of 8 December 2023, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University hosted the third lecture of the Autumn Semester 2023-2024 on "Beyond the Method of Belief: Ethical Affinity and the Cultivation of Chinese Buddhist Spirituality in Tanzania". The lecture was delivered by Dr. Qiu Yu, a researcher at ...

On 24 November 2023, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University hosted the second lecture of the Fall Semester 20223-2024 on "An Explorative Study of Primary Health Care Interventions in East Africa". The lecture was delivered by Dr. Kun Tang, Associate Professor, Vanguard School o...

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.

Jointly founded by the IIAS and the Institute of East Asian Studies of Thammasat University, the Bangkok Field Station will provide Tsinghua University and its partner institutions a platform for field studies, promote academic exchanges and cooperation across countries, and explore the development direction and path for area studies.