The 18th lecture of the Adventus Amicorum series was held on March 8, 2024 at Peking University (PKU). Co-hosted by PKU’s Institute of Area Studies, the Office of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Institute of Social Science Surveys, the event featured Destry Damayanti, Senior Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia, as the distinguished speaker. Her address, titled "Synergy and Innovation for Indonesia's Economic Resilience and Revival," was warmly received by the audience.

The 11th lecture of the seminar series on “Autonomous Knowledge System Construction and New Perspectives in Area Studies,” themed “Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and China’s Central and Eastern European Studies,” was held on December 29, 2023.

The 17th lecture of the "Adventus Amicorum" series, hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), was held online on December 28, 2023.

The 7th lecture of the Youth Salon of the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), entitled “Historical Imprints of Soviet Industrialization: Field Evidence Based on Kazakhstan and Armenia,” was held on December 22, 2023.

The 16th lecture of the "Adventus Amicorum" salon series was held on December 21, 2023, by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) in the form of online conference.

The 15th lecture of the “Adventus Amicorum” salon series, “Sino-Burmese People-to-People Exchange,” was held by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) on December 19, 2023.

The 10th lecture of the seminar series “Autonomous Knowledge System Construction and New Perspectives in Area Studies" was held at Peking University (PKU) on December 13. Entitled “Questions on developing an Autonomous Knowledge System for Area Studies: Research and Reflection on the Modern History of the Central Asian Steppe,”

The ninth lecture in the seminar series “Autonomous Knowledge System Construction and New Perspectives in Area Studies,” themed “Orientalism, Nationalism and Post-colonialism: Ideology and Discourse Shift in Indian Studies,” co-hosted by the Institute of Areas Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) and the Chen Hansheng Center for the Study of World Political Economy (CCPE), kicked off on December 7.

The 8th lecture of the seminar series “Autonomous Knowledge System Construction and New Perspectives of Area Studies” of the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), entitled “Post-War Politics and the Depoliticization of Regional Studies in Japan,” was held on December 5, 2023.

The sixth lecture of the Youth Salon series of the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), “The Entanglement of Concepts, Crowds, and Myths: Taking Turk and Turkic-speaking Crowds as an Example” was held on November 29, 2023.