On June 8, IIAS held the fourth session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Academic Salon. The event, titled “Distributional Politics in Türkiye from a Global South Perspective,” featured Hu Shulei, a doctoral student at IIAS, as the keynote speaker, and was moderated by Yuan Mengqi, Assistant Professor at IIAS. More than a dozen faculty members and students from within and outside the University p...

On the evening of May 28, 2026, Session 3 of the Tsinghua Area Studies Lecture Series was held at Room 902, Building C, TusPark. Professor Gao Bai of the Department of Sociology at Duke University delivered a lecture entitled "Tensions Everywhere: Reflections on Building an Independent Knowledge System through Area Studies." Professor Zhang Yongle, Tenured Associate Professor at Peking Universi...

On May 23, the First Tsinghua Doctoral Forum on Area Studies and the 824th Tsinghua University Doctoral Academic Forum were held at the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University. Centred on the theme "Area Studies: Experience, Theory, and Method," the forum brought together more than one hundred faculty members and students from universities in China and abroad ...

On May 18, IIAS held the third session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Academic Salon. The event, titled "Global Political-Economic Transformations and Industrial Development in Southeast Asia," was delivered by Qin Beichen, a doctoral student at IIAS, and moderated by Dr Wang Tao, Assistant Professor. More than a dozen faculty members and students from within and outside the University participat...

On May 15, 2026, Professor Ole Wæver of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and founding director of the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, together with Professor Charlotte Epstein, Visiting Professor at Tokyo College of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo, visited IIAS for academic exchange activities. The visit deepened facu...

On the morning of April 17, 2026, the second session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Lecture Series, jointly hosted by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University and the India Studies Center of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was successfully held in Room 116 of Wennan Building. The event also formed the third session of the South Asia Lectu...

On April 10, IIAS held the inaugural session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Academic Salon. The event, titled “The Limits of Spear and Shield: Observations on the U.S.–Israel–Iran Full-Spectrum Conflict,” was delivered by Dr Yang Guang, Assistant Professor at IIAS, and moderated by Dr Wang Tao, Assistant Professor. Dozens of faculty members and students from both within and outside the Univer...

On March 27, the Institute for International and Area Studies at Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as the “Institute”) hosted the inaugural session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Lecture Series, titled “Area Studies and the Construction of China’s Autonomous Knowledge System.” The lecture was delivered by Professor Jiang Jingkui, Dean of the Institute. Professor Meng Tianguang, Pa...

From July 2 to 4, 2025, the 4th Tsinghua Area Studies Forum was held, hosted by the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS), Tsinghua University. With the theme of “Beyond Regions: Emerging Issues and New Visions for the Global South”, the forum brought together more than 200 scholars from over 40 countries to engage in in-depth discussions on the latest transformations, cooperati...