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.
An Examination of China’s Political and Economic Changes after 1949 from the Historical Perspective (2007.12.03)
Professor R. Bin Wong (Director, Asia Institute, University of California, Los Angeles)
Creating Global History from Asian Perspectives (2007.11.4)
Professor Shigeru Akita (Osaka University)
Exploring Shenlong Belief Based on Archaeological Data (2007.07.23)
Professor Blinova Olga Mikhailovna (Institute of Oriental Studies, The Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Department of History (Designate), Sun Yat-sen University)
Some Reflections on Art and Art History (2007.05.26)
Professor Michael Sullivan (Professor Emeritus, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University)
-North Chinese Matchmaking (2007.04.11)
-The World Wide Web and the Practice of Anthropology (2007.04.13)
Professor David K. Jordan (Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego; Visiting Scholar, Division of Humanities, HKUST)
-Impression and Fact: New Inquiry into the Sino-British Controversy over Ritual Prostrations before the Emperor in Qing Dynasty (2007.03.27)
-Two-headed Snake: First Generation Catholics during Late Ming and Early Qing Period (2007.03.28)
-God, Artillery, Concubine: Cultural Clashes between China and Europe in Late Ming Dynasty (2007.03.29)
History of Medicine and the Issue of China "Modern" (2007.02.12)
Professor Leung Ki Che Angela (The Institute History and Philology, Academic Sinica)
Brilliance Re-emerged: Changes in Fujian's Social Atmosphere (2006.11.06)
Professor Hsu Hong (Department of History, Soochow University, Taiwan)
From Social History to New Cultural History: the Change of Cultural Direction in Contemporary Historiography in the West (2006.11.03)
Dr. Chiang Chu-Shan (Department of History, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan)
External intellectuals and Modern Chinese Society: The Cases of Gu Hongming, Li Denghui and Wu Liande (2006.09.28)
Professor Wong Sin Kiong (Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore)
An Analysis on the "Closure" of Southwestern China during Qing Dynasty (2006.08.24)
Professor Takeuchi Fusaji (Gakushuin University)
Sinicization of Guangdong and the Order of Rites in Ming Dynasty (2006.09.01)
Professor Inoue Toru (Department of History, Osaka City University)
The Issue of "Class" in Modern History of England (2006.05.19)
Professor Qian Chengdan (History Department, Peking University)
-The Desire for Revolution among the Chinese Literati in the Early 20 Century (2006.03.24)
-The Turning Point of Hope and Hopelessness: The Year before the May Fourth Movement (2006.03.27)
Professor Luo Zhitian (History Department, Peking University)
The Aesthetic Value of the Feebleness Virtue of Chinese Classical Poetry (2006.02.21)
Professor Ye Jiaying (Nankai University)
On the Track: The Tianjin-Pukou Line and Local Society of Modern Shandong(2005.04.28)
Professor Elisabeth Köll (Case Western Reserve University)
Capital in the Chinese Industrialization before the Anti-Japanese War (2005.03.21)
Professor Wang Yejian (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
The Outline of “Rethinking History”: Text and Context (2004.12.29)
Professor Wang Ming-ke (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)