Events

Time: June 11, 2026, 09:30—11:00 Venue: B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Theme: The Anthropocene and Global Environmental History: A Dialogue with Professor John R. McNeill Guest Speaker: Professor John R. McNeill (Georgetown Universit...

Time: June 12, 2026, 09:30—11:30 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: Sven Hedin, Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Rise of Chinese Archaeology Speaker: Associate Professor Wang Xinchun (College of History and Culture, Nort...

Time: June 11, 2026, 15:00—17:00 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: Joseph Needham and Medicine: The History of an Interdisciplinary Puzzle Speaker: Guo Wenhua (Yangming Chiao Tung University) Discussant: Liu Bing (...

Time: June 5, 2026, 15:00–17:00 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: Commerce and the Sublime: Popular Astronomy Lectures in 19th-Century Britain Speaker: Associate Professor Huang Xiangfu (School of History, Nankai Univ...

How did “early modernity” look and feel at the eastern edge of Eurasia? What counted as “science,” and how did knowledge travel, settle, and transform across languages, media, and environments? Focusing on a long early modern period (c. 1400–1800), thi...

Time: May 18, 2026, 15:00—17:00 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: Mathematics, History and Philosophy: A Unified Framework Speaker: Professor Ji Lizhen (Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA) Lec...

Time: 09:30—11:30, May 15, 2026 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: Reproduction and reproducibility in experimental and observational research Speaker: Hans Radder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Abstract: (a) I ske...

Time: April 27, 2026, 15:00—17:00 Venue: Room B206, Humanities Building, Tsinghua University Topic: "Is Climate Neglected?": How to Understand the Climate Chapters in Local Chronicles in the Early Qing Dynasty (1644-1722) Speaker: Youhua...

On the morning of November 4, 2025, the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University held the 102nd Tsinghua Lecture on History and Philosophy of Science in Room B206 of the Mengminwei Building of Humanities. Professor Victor Katz gave a lec...

On the afternoon of November 13, 2025, the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University held the 103rd Tsinghua Lecture on History and Philosophy of Science in Room B206 of the Meng Minwei Humanities Building. Li Yunyi, an associate research...