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.
Chinese Historical Geography in the 21st Century (2003.02.18)
Professor Ge Jianxiong (Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University)
-Ambiguities of a Watershed Date: The 1949 Divide in Chinese History (2002.12.13)
-China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past (2002.12.14)
Professor Paul Cohen (Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University)
Chaste Woman and the Chinese State: The Cult of Wang Yulan and the Politics of Local Identity on Jinmen (Quemoy) (2002.11.23)
Professor Michael Szonyi (Department of History, University of Toronto)
Confucian Community Pact and People's Belief: Implications of Wei Xiao's Attack on Monasteries (2002.09.05)
Professor Inoue Toru (Department of History, Osaka City University)
-Sociology and Anthropology in History: On the Expansion of the History Discipline (2002.06.12)
-Re-positioning Chinese History Study in the United States: Responses to the Post-modern and Post-colonial Critique (2002.06.14)
-Philosophy of History without Toynbee? (2002.06.17)
Professor Q. Edward Wang (Department of History, Rowan University)
The Humanities and Modernity (2002.05.06)
Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)