The\u00a02026 Corinne Lyman Lecture in International Studies\u00a0<\/b>will take place on\u00a0Tuesday, October 27, 2026\u00a0<\/b>at\u00a06:30 pm\u00a0<\/b>in the\u00a0Benes Room<\/b>\u00a0of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Street, Delaware, Ohio 43015. Admission is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Muetter Tohti<\/a>, a human rights researcher specializing in documenting and analyzing the Chinese government’s actions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, will present: \u201cSilencing Voices Across Borders: China\u2019s Repression of the Uyghur Diaspora.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Her lecture\u00a0examines how Beijing extends repression beyond China\u2019s 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 explores both the personal costs of speaking out and the ways Uyghurs continue to resist. It also asks what meaningful protection requires from host governments and institutions when crossing a border does not put repression out of reach.<\/p>\n