On 3 September 2026, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University held a field reserarch experience-sharing session for the autumn semester of 2026. Professor Jiang Jingkui, Dean of IIAS, He Xuebing, Party Branch Secretary and Associate Dean, faculty representatives, student representatives, and doctoral students preparing to undertake field research overseas t...

On 31 August 2026, the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University held its 2026 New Student Opening Ceremony for doctoral students. Professor Jiang Jingkui, Dean of IIAS, He Xuebing, Party Branch Secretary and Associate Dean, all faculty members, and the 2026 cohort of new students attended the ceremony. The ceremony was chaired by Li Yuqing, Head of the Graduate...

At lunchtime on 22 and 26 June, IIAS at Tsinghua University held farewell discussion sessions for the Class of 2026 graduates. The first session, held on 22 June, was attended by students from the 2021 cohort, while the second, on 26 June, brought together students from the 2019 and 2020 cohorts. Professor Jiang Jingkui, Dean of IIAS, met with the graduating students to reflect on their years o...

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...