The 77th lecture in the Adventus Amicorum salon series was held on May 12, 2026, at the Institute of Country and Region Studies, Peking University (PKUICRS).

The 76th lecture in the “Adventus Amicorum” salon series was held on May 11, 2026, at the Institute of Country and Region Studies, Peking University (PKUICRS). Punchada Sirivunnabood, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and professor of Political Science at Mahidol University, Thailand, delivered a lecture titled “Constitutional Cycles and Political Reform in Thailand and Indonesia.”

On April 27, the Institute of Country and Region Studies at Peking University (ICRS-PKU) hosted a lecture, “Civilizational Theory and International Law,” which was delivered by Prof. David Lloyd Dusenbury, associate professor of Humanities at the University of Florida.

The 73rd "Adventus Amicorum" salon series hosted by the Institute of Country and Region Studies (ICRS) was held on April 21, 2026. The lecture, titled “East, West, and the Rest: How East–West Antagonism Reshapes North–South Relations,” was delivered by Jörg Friedrichs, an associate professor in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.

The 69th lecture of the “Adventus Amicorum” salon series was held on December 24, 2025 by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), during which Dimitar Bechev, director of the Dahrendorf Programme at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford; and Janka Oertel, distinguished policy fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), shared their thoughts on the topic,

The 17th session of the Master Salon series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), was held on December 23, 2025. The seminar was titled "The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order: Examining Trump's Strategic Adjustments Through the Lens of Historical Institutionalism."

The 16th session of the Master Salon series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) was held on December 15, 2025. The theme of the seminar was "Observations on Thailand's Political Maze."