The 46th lecture of the “Adventus Amicorum” salon series was held on March 4, 2025, by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS). During the salon, Prof. Thomas Duve, director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and professor for Comparative Legal History at the Faculty of Law, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, shared his thoughts on the topic, "Global Legal History and Comparative Law."

On February 27, the first lecture of Governance in Border Areas: A Lecture Series from the Perspective of Area Studies organized by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), took place in No. 66, Yannanyuan.

The 45th seminar in the "Adventus Amicorum" seminar series, hosted by the Institute of Area Studies at Peking University (PKUIAS), was held on January 5, 2025.

On December 12, 2024, the 44th session of the "Adventus Amicorum" seminar series, organized by the Institute of Area Studies Peking University, took place online.

On December 11, 2024, the 43rd session of the "Adventus Amicorum" seminar series organized by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) took place at No. 66, Yannanyuan.

The 41st lecture of the "Adventus Amicorum" seminar series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), was held on December 7, 2024. This forum, themed “2025 Frontier and Interdisciplinary Area Studies: Building Smart City in a Changing World,” was part of the framework of the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS). The lecture featured the following speakers: Prof. Wang Dong, director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (iGCU); Prof. Zhai Kun, deputy director of PKUIAS; Prof. Chen Xi, dean of the Institute for Urban Internationalization Studies at Zhejiang International Studies University; and Nurul Amillin Hussain, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

The 40th lecture of the "Adventus Amicorum" salon series hosted by the Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), which also served as the 360th lecture of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Peking University, was held on December 6, 2024.