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.
-On the Research of Guizhou Nationalities based on the "One Hundred Pictures of Miao Nationality" (2004.11.21)
-On the Cultural Development of Miao Nationality by Examining the Names of Various Miao Branches (2004.11.21)
-The Relationship between Garrison Establishment and Minority Nationalities(2004.11.22)
Macro-View of South China during 17th and 20th Centuries: Globalization, Regionalization, and Localization (2004.10.08)
Professor Hamashita Takeshi (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Multi-national Social Sphere, Institutional Network and Imagined State: The Case of Singapore (1945 - 2004) (2004.09.22)
Professor Liu Hong (Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore)
Culture and History: My View on Historical Anthropology (2004.09.17)
Professor Huang Ying-Kuei (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica)
The Recent Development of Hakka Studies in Taiwan (2004.07.04)
Professor Chang Wei-An (College for Hakka Studies, National Central University)
Stylized Living of Ming and Qing Scholars and Dialectic Relation between Refined and Popular Taste (2004.04.04)
Professor Wang Hung-tai (Department of History, National Chi Nan University)
Settlement and Sacrificial Offer in Yangtze Delta: Textual Research and Field Work (2004.03.12)
Professor Atsutoshi Hamashima (Arts Faculty, University of Osaka)
On the Issue of "Historic Aspect" in History Research (2004.01.07)
Professor Sun Ge (Institute of Literature, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
-Debates over the Roots and Formation of Chinese Civilization (2003.12.01)
-A Pattern of the Evolution of Archaeological Culture: The Case of Jincun Culture (2003.12.02)
-Two Patterns of Dispersion of Archaeological Culture: The Vessels of Gui, Jia, Li and Two-Handle Li (2003.12.03)
-Ethnology and Archaeology (2003.12.06)
Ancestor Worship and Local Organizations: A Comparison between South China and North China (2003.08.29)
Professor David Faure (Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford)
Imperial Institutions at the Grassroots: Reading Local Documents (2003.08.29)
Professor Liu Zhiwei (Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University)
Multiple Implications of Borders: The Transnational Linkages of the Jing Ethnic Group and the Reconstruction of Miao Ethnic Identity (2003.08.29)
Professor Cheung Siu-woo (Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Local Society and Nation as Seen from Folk Cults (2003.08.29)
Professor Liu Tik-sang (Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Collecting and Making Use of Steles in Regional Research (2003.08.28)
Professor Zheng Zhenman (Department of History, Xiamen University)
Regional Studies and Global Perspectives: Chaozhou, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (2003.08.28)
Professor Choi Chi-cheung, (Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
From Local History to Regional History: Topic and Methodology of Research on Chaozhou (2003.08.28)
Professor Chen Chunsheng (Center for History and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University)
Some Reflections on Modern Chinese Intellectual History Research(2003.05.03)
Professor Chu Hung-lam (Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Local Despots in Guangdong during the Republican Period: An Issue of Social History or History of Administration? (2003.03.22)
Professor John Fitzgerald (School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University)
Chinese Dialects and Migration (2003.03.07)
Professor Zhou Zhenghe (Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University)