On September 20, 2019, Prof. Tansen Sen from New York University Shanghai as the keynote speaker, Prof. Arunabh Ghosh from Harvard University as the reviewer, and Prof. Cao Yin, Associate Professor from Tsinghua University as the host, brought the lecture of “Rethinking Area Studies within a Global Framework: The Case of Asian Studies” to the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS)...

On October 12, 2019, Prof. Shen Weirong from Tsinghua University and Prof. Willem van Schendel from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands as the main lecturers, and Prof. Cao Yin, Associate Professor from Tsinghua University as the host, brought the lecturer of “ Zomia in Motion: The Southeast Asian Highlands and their Tibetan Implications” to the Institute of International and Area ...

On October 21, 2019, Prof. Zan Tao from Peking University, Prof. She Gangzheng from Tsinghua University, Prof. Shi Yue from Peking University, Prof. Wen Shuang from Beijing Foreign Studies University and Prof. Yuan Jian from Central University for Nationalities as the presenters, and Prof. Cao Yin, Associate Professor from Tsinghua University as the host , brought the lecture of “Alternative M...

On November 6, 2019, Prof. Henk Schulte Nordholt from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asia and the Caribbean and Leiden University in the Netherlands, and Prof. Xie Kankan, Associate Professor from Peking University, carried out the lecture of “The Theatre State Revisited: Indonesia in the Short 20th Century”, the 4th session of the Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series at the Ins...

On November 18, 2019, Prof.r Sunil Amrith of Harvard University gave doctoral students and young scholars the 5thlsession of the Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) of Tsinghua University, with the topic of “Water and the Making of Modern India”.Professor Amrith introduced his findings on the environmental history of South Asia. He foc...

On November 23, 2019, Prof. Barbara Andaya from the University of Hawaii, Dr. Matthew Reeder from the National University of Singapore, and Associate Professor Chen Boyi from Xiamen University presented the lecuture of “Southeast Asia as Method: Fieldwork, Texts, and Perspectives”, the 6th session of the Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series in this semester.Professor Andaya and Dr. Reeder focu...

On December 7, 2019, Prof. Maitrii Aung-thwin from the National University of Singapore, Associate Professor Jonathan Saha from the University of Leeds and Ren Chao, doctoral candidate from the University of Michigan brought the 7th session of the seventh lecture of theGlocal Asian Studies Lecture Series, with the theme of “Shooting an Elephant: Order, Rebellion, and Animals in Colonial Burma...

On December 21, 2019, Prof. Mark Frazier, Professor of the New School of the United States, Associate Professor Selina Ho from the National University of Singapore, and Prof. He Chang from New York University in Shanghai, brought the last session of the Glocal Asian Studies Lecture Series in this semester. The theme was “A Dance of Dragon and Elephant? China and India in the Era of Post-global...