List of public lecture series

Recurrent series of notable public lectures are presented in various countries.

• The Boyer Lectures delivered by prominent Australians, broadcast annually by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
• The Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture, held annually at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
• The George Ernest Morrison Lecture in Ethnology, held annually at the Australian National University in Canberra.

• The Massey Lectures are held at and sponsored by Massey College at the University of Toronto annually
• The Watts Lectures are held several times each year at the University of Toronto Scarborough

• The H.C. Ørsted Lectureship held at and sponsored by The Technical University of Denmark, annually
• Public Lectures in Science (In Danish: Offentlige Foredrag i Naturvidenskab) sponsored by Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, and held in Vejle, Horsens, Herning and Aarhus.^[1]

• Vasant Vyakhyanmala is a traditional annual spring lecture series held in Pune, India, for the last 140 years and hosted by Vaktruttvottejak Sabha.^[2][3]
• NITI (National Institute for Transforming India), India lectures series: Transforming India^[4]

• Victoria University of Wellington public lecture series.^[5]

• The Dingwall Beloe Lecture Series, held at the British Museum annually, intended to make new contributions to the history of horology, with a particular international focus.
• Gresham College gives free public lectures since it was founded in 1597
• The Reith Lectures, broadcast annually on the BBC, founded in honour of Lord Reith
• The Romanes Lectures, on "any topic in the Arts, Science, or Literature", given annually at the University of Oxford founded by George Romanes
• The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have presented scientific ideas to young people in an entertaining manner since 1825.

• The Art, Technology, and Culture (ATC) Lecture Series, at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA
• The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA
• Distinctive Voices, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, presents lectures on a wide range of scientific and technical topics at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA and the Jonsson Center in Woods Hole, MA^[6]
• The Morgenthau Lectures, at the Carnegie Council in New York
• The Watson Lecture Series, at the California Institute of Technology, which began in 1922, presents lectures on science and engineering from the institute's researchers^[7]

• The Irving E. Carlyle Lecture Series at Wake Forest University
• Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University^[8]
• Whizin Center Public Lecture Series at the American Jewish University^[9]

• Evolution of Flight Lecture Series from American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• UBC CS Distinguished Lecture Series^[10]

• Distinguished Lecturer Series - Leon The Mathematician] at School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki^[11]

• CDS Lecture Series at Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory, Institute for Systems Research at University of Maryland, College Park
• MURL Lecture Series at Multi-University/Research Laboratory (MURL) as a group of institutions:^[12]
  • School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University;
  • Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
  • Microsoft Research;
  • School of Engineering, Stanford University;
  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Washington; and
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

• Caird Medal lecture series at the National Maritime Museum
• E. A. Lowe Lectures, given triennially at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, on palaeography
• Ford Lectures, given annually at Oxford University on British history
• Lyell Lectures, given annually at Oxford University on the history of the book or bibliography
• McKenzie Lectures, given annually at Oxford University on the history of the book, scholarly editing, textual criticism, or bibliography
• Panizzi Lectures, given annually at the British Library on a topic in bibliography or book history
• Sandars Lectures, given annually at Cambridge University on a topic in bibliography or book history
• Lees Knowles Lectures, given annually military history at Trinity College, Cambridge
• Raleigh Lectures on History at the British Academy,^[13] London, England,
• Black History for Action at Lambeth Town Hall, London, England.
• Keynes Lectures in Economics at the British Academy, London, England.

• A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Alice G. Smith Lecture, University of South Florida
• Chicago Humanities Festival
• Columbia Lectures in International Studies
• James Ford Bell Lecture
• Jefferson Lecture
• Massey Lectures
• Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities

• Eötvös József Lecture

• Nexus Lectures since 1994 ^[14]
• Mosse Lectures, given annually in Amsterdam^[15]

• Robert C. Vance Distinguished Lecture Series at Central Connecticut State University

• Hamlyn Lectures

• Sir David Wallace Lecture Series at Loughborough University

• Spring Lecture Series at University of Arkansas

• The Melbourne Neuroscience Public Lecture Series at The Melbourne Neuroscience Institute, University of Melbourne

• Treva Glazebrook Lecture Series at University of Western Ontario

• CSHL Adult Lectures at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Contemporary Neurology and Neuroscience Evening Lecture Series at Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine
• Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture Series at Center for Neural Science|the Center for Neural Science, New York University
• Duke Neurobiology Lecture Series at Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center
• Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture Series by the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Emory University
• Gardner Murphy Memorial Lecture Series by the American Society for Psychical Research
• HHMI's Neuroscience Lecture Series at Howard Hughes Medical Institute^[16]
• IHF Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning and Memory at Irvine Health Foundation
• Interdisciplinary Seminar at Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience (OCNS)
• Distinguished Lecturer Series at UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
• Mind, Brain and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series at Center for Cognitive Neurosciences, Duke University
• Mind/Brain Lecture Series at Swartz Foundation
• MNIF Public Lecture Series at Montana Neuroscience Institute Foundation
• Neuroscience Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• NRC Lecture Series at Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• NUIN Lecture Series at the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience
• Pinkel Endowed Lecture Series at Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
• Wyeth Distinguished Lecture Series in Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University
• Yerkes Neuroscience Lecture Series by Neuroscience Division, Yerkes National Primate Research Center

• Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture Series at Perimeter Institute

• Sir Nevill Mott Lecture Series at Loughborough University

• Fermilab Lecture Series at Fermilab
• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship before the American Astronomical Society
• Jansky Lectureship before the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Leon Pape Memorial Lecture Series at California State University at Los Angeles
• Lyman Parratt Lecture Series at Cornell University
• Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• Richtmyer Memorial Award Lectureship, by the American Association of Physics Teachers

• Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Lecture Series, Milan^[17]

• Program ConCiencia at the University of Santiago de Compostela