Numbers of public lectures have been oraganised by the Historic Anthropology Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University, as well as co-organized by Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Hong Kong University and South China Research Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 2002. Scholars from different disciplines in Humanities were invited to give lectures.
China's Economy: Past, Present, Future (2010.5.31)
Professor Thomas G. Rawski (University of Pittsburgh)
Migration and Culture: The Trends and Anthropological Studies (2010.5.25)
Tabunka-kyosei (多文化共生): Transnational Migrants and the Multiculturalism in the New Japan
Professor Shinji Yamashita (Department of Anthropology, Tokyo University)
Rethinking Imperial Art Collecting: The Case of the Northern Sung (2009.12.2)
Professor Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington)
Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective (2009.03.12)
Professor Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore)
The Encounter between Jesuit Mission, Islam, and Heterodox Popular Religion in Late Ming China: the Case of Longobardo (2008.12.15)
Professor Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Professor of History and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
“Wildmen,” Opium, Guerrila Soldiers, and “Manau”: The Kachin and Jingpo at the Borderland of China and Burma since the Late Nineteenth Century
Professor Ho Tsui-Ping (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica)
Minds and Machines: China's Gutenberg Revolution and China's Modernity (2008.09.18)
Professor Christopher A Reed (The Ohio State University in Columbus, USA)
全球金融危機和東盟 (2008.09.16)
Professor John Wong (Director, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)
