List of public lecture series

Michael Faraday delivering one of the British Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1856.

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

## General

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### Australia

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* 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.

### Canada

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* 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

### Denmark

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* 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]

### India

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* 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]

### New Zealand

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* Victoria University of Wellington public lecture series.[5]

### United Kingdom

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* 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.

### United States

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* 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]

## Social and political

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### United States

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* 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]

## Aeronautics and astronautics

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### United States

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

## Computer science

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### Canada

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* UBC CS Distinguished Lecture Series[10]

### Greece

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

### United States

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* 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.

## History and humanities

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### United Kingdom

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* 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.

### United States

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* 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

### Hungary

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* Eötvös József Lecture

### The Netherlands

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

## Journalism and media studies

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### United States

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

## Law

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### United Kingdom

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* Hamlyn Lectures

## Mathematics and mathematical sciences

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### United Kingdom

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* Sir David Wallace Lecture Series at Loughborough University

### United States

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* Spring Lecture Series at University of Arkansas

## Neurosciences and mind/brain sciences

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### Australia

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

### Canada

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* Treva Glazebrook Lecture Series at University of Western Ontario

### United States

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* 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

## Physics

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### Australia

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* Public lectures in physics at University of Melbourne

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* Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture Series at Perimeter Institute

### United Kingdom

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* Sir Nevill Mott Lecture Series at Loughborough University

### United States

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* 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

## Medical sciences

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### Italy

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* Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Lecture Series, Milan[17]

## Science

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### Spain

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* Program ConCiencia at the University of Santiago de Compostela

## References

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1. ^ "Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab, Aarhus Universitet - Livestream og live". scitech.au.dk.
2. ^ "Vasant Vyakhyanmala to start from April 21". No. 19 April 2011. sakal news papers. sakaltimes. 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
3. ^ "Month-long spring lecture series that has been a tradition for centuries in Pune will be held till May 20". dna. dna. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
4. ^ "Lecture 3: Competitiveness Of Nations & States - New Insights - NITI Aayog, (National Institution for Transforming India), Government of India". niti.gov.in.
5. ^ "Victoria University of Wellington public lecture series". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
6. ^ "Distinctive Voices Home". Nasonline.org. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
7. ^ "The Watson Lecture Series". caltech.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
8. ^ "Landon Lecture Series - Home Page - KSU-OME". Ome.ksu.edu. 2004-07-31. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
9. ^ "2OO9 PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES - WHIZIN CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION ( WCCE ) American Jewish University ( AJULA ) formerly University of Judaism ( Form )". 28 December 2008. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008.
10. ^ "UBC CPSC - Events and Seminars". 8 August 2006. Archived from the original on 8 August 2006.
11. ^ "Leon the Mathematician". Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – School of Informatics. 28 March 2017.
12. ^ Seminar series: recently added lectures, Multi-University/Research Laboratory, March 31, 2004.
13. ^ "Information about the British Academy's Lecture series - British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2008-06-25. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
14. ^ "Activities".
15. ^ Grevelink, Maaike (2010). Lof van de lezing. Gids voor de 154 meest prestigieuze lezingen [Praise of the lecture. Guide to the 154 most prestigious lectures] (in Dutch). Elsevier. pp. 191–192\. ISBN 978-90-6882-798-9.
16. ^ "Neuroscience". HHMI BioInteractive.
17. ^ "Associazione Giuseppe Bigi - Associazione Giuseppe Bigi". www.giuseppebigi.it.