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...

On June 17, 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 third lecture of the 2023-2024 spring semester. The lecture, titled “Behind the Development Miracle: Consociational Democracy in Mauritius,” was delivered by Sheena Sookrajowa Sheetal, Senior Lecturer in Political Sc...

On May 30, 2024, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, the Sub-Saharan African Studies Research Group of the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University hosted the second lecture of the 20223-2024 spring semester “Staffing and the formation of an 'Pockets of Effectiveness': the case of institutional reform in the Uganda National Roads Authority”. The lecture was held both ...