List of public lecture series

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

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

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.

India

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

New Zealand

• Victoria University of Wellington public lecture series.

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
• 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

Social and political

United States

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

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

Greece

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

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:
  • 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, 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
• Mosse Lectures, given annually in Amsterdam

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
• 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

Science

Spain

• Program ConCiencia at the University of Santiago de Compostela