The 2025-2026 J.K. Eddy Memorial Lecture took place on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. in the Benes Rooms in Hamilton-Williams Campus Center.
Past Speakers and Background on Eddy Lecture
Human rights researcher Muetter Tohti will deliver the 2026 Corinne Lyman Lecture in International Studies, presenting "Silencing Voices Across Borders: China's Repression of the Uyghur Diaspora." The event takes place on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. in the Benes Room of the Hamilton Williams Campus Center (40 Rowland St., Delaware, Ohio). Admission is free and open to the public.
Her lecture will examine how Beijing extends repression beyond China's borders through surveillance, threats, and pressure on relatives, and how these practices reshape everyday life, family relationships, and political participation within the Uyghur diaspora. Connecting individual experiences with broader questions of state power, sovereignty, and human rights, it will explore both the personal costs of speaking out and the ways Uyghurs continue to resist. It will also ask what meaningful protection requires from host governments and institutions when crossing a border does not put repression out of reach.
Past Speakers and Background on Lyman Lecture