List of public lecture series explained

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

General

Australia

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

United Kingdom

• 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

• 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

United States

• 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

United States

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

Computer science

Canada

• UBC CS Distinguished Lecture Series^[10]

Greece

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

United States

• 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

United Kingdom

• 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

• 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

• Eötvös József Lecture

The Netherlands

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

Journalism and media studies

United States

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

Law

United Kingdom

• Hamlyn Lectures

Mathematics and mathematical sciences

United Kingdom

• Sir David Wallace Lecture Series at Loughborough University

United States

• Spring Lecture Series at University of Arkansas

Neurosciences and mind/brain sciences

Australia

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

Canada

• Treva Glazebrook Lecture Series at University of Western Ontario

United States

• 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

Canada

• Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture Series at Perimeter Institute

United Kingdom

• Sir Nevill Mott Lecture Series at Loughborough University

United States

• 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

Italy

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

Science

Spain

• Program ConCiencia at the University of Santiago de Compostela

References

1. Web site: Offentlige foredrag i Naturvidenskab, Aarhus Universitet - Livestream og live. scitech.au.dk.
2. News: Vasant Vyakhyanmala to start from April 21. 9 December 2014. sakaltimes. 19 April 2011. sakal news papers. 19 April 2011.
3. News: Month-long spring lecture series that has been a tradition for centuries in Pune will be held till May 20.. 9 December 2014. dna. dna.
4. Web site: Lecture 3: Competitiveness Of Nations & States - New Insights - NITI Aayog, (National Institution for Transforming India), Government of India. niti.gov.in.
5. Web site: Victoria University of Wellington public lecture series . . 18 March 2023.
6. Web site: Distinctive Voices Home . Nasonline.org . 2013-06-17.
7. Web site: The Watson Lecture Series. caltech.edu . 2023-12-01.
8. Web site: Landon Lecture Series - Home Page - KSU-OME . Ome.ksu.edu . 2004-07-31 . 2013-06-17.
9. Web site: 2OO9 PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES - WHIZIN CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION (WCCE) American Jewish University (AJULA) formerly University of Judaism (Form). https://web.archive.org/web/20081228063147/http://wcce.ajula.edu/Content/forms/pls2009.asp?CID=1137&t=0. dead. 28 December 2008. 28 December 2008.
10. Web site: UBC CPSC - Events and Seminars. https://web.archive.org/web/20060808213204/http://www.cs.ubc.ca/events/seminars/. dead. 8 August 2006. 8 August 2006.
11. Web site: Leon the Mathematician. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – School of Informatics. 28 March 2017.
12. https://web.archive.org/web/20040331171652/http://murl.microsoft.com/ Seminar series: recently added lectures
13. Web site: Information about the British Academy's Lecture series - British Academy . Britac.ac.uk . 2013-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080625095054/http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/series.html . 2008-06-25 . dead .
14. Web site: Activities.
15. Book: Grevelink, Maaike. 2010. Lof van de lezing. Gids voor de 154 meest prestigieuze lezingen. Elsevier. 191–192. 978-90-6882-798-9. Dutch. Praise of the lecture. Guide to the 154 most prestigious lectures.
16. Web site: Neuroscience. HHMI BioInteractive.
17. Web site: Associazione Giuseppe Bigi - Associazione Giuseppe Bigi. www.giuseppebigi.it.