On the afternoon of June 22, 2026, the fourth lecture of the Tsinghua Area Studies Lecture Series and the fourth South Asia Lecture Series were jointly organised by IIAS at Tsinghua University and the Centre for Indian Studies of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The lecture was held in Room 216, Wennan Building. Associate Professor Rakesh Kumar, Director of the Centre for Ch...

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...

From April 30 to May 2, a delegation led by Qiu Yong, Secretary of the CPC Tsinghua University Committee, visited Mongolia to advance educational and scientific cooperation as well as people-to-people exchange between Tsinghua University and Mongolia, contributing to the continued development of the China–Mongolia comprehensive strategic partnership. Shen Minjuan, Chinese Ambassador to Mongoli...

On April 24, IIAS held the second session of the Tsinghua Area Studies Academic Salon. The event, titled “Party Rhetorical Capacity: A Research Agenda for African Politics,” featured Dr Xiao Qijia, Assistant Professor at IIAS, as keynote speaker, and was moderated by Dr Yuan Mengqi, Assistant Professor. Dozens of faculty members and students from both within and outside the University partici...

On the afternoon of April 20, 2026, Long Guijie, Associate Professor at the China–ASEAN Research Institute of Guangxi University and Director of the Editorial Office of ASEAN Studies, visited IIAS and held a discussion session with faculty members.Participants from IIAS included He Yan and Yuan Mengqi, Assistant Professors, as well as Guan Hao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow.During the meeting, ...