The 12th lecture in the Youth Salon series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), was held on June 19, 2025. The lecture, titled “Oceans, Lands, and the World’s Ultimate Extremity: The Kunlun Theory from the Ming Dynasty to the Modern Era”, was delivered by Associate Professor Gao Bo from the School of History at Renmin University of China, and moderated by Prof. Zhang Yongle, deputy director of PKUIAS and tenured associate professor at the School of Law.

The 8th session of the Youth Salon series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) was held on November 22, 2024 under the theme “Fukuyama, Trump, and the Uses of Classical Studies.”

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.

Since its establishment in April 2018, the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), under the support of the leadership of the university, has made remarkable achievements in platform construction, talent cultivation and foreign exchanges.

Since its establishment in April 2018, the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) has achieved remarkable results in platform construction, talent development and international exchanges under the support of the university administration.