List of public lecture series

General

Australia

• The prestigious Errol Solomon Meyers Memorial Lecture, held annually at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.

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 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. See more at http://scitech.au.dk/foredrag/

India

• Vasant Vyakhyanmala is a traditional annual spring lecture series held in Pune, India, for the last 140 years and hosted by Vaktruttvottejak Sabha.^[1][2]

United Kingdom

• 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^[3]
• The Morgenthau Lectures, at the Carnegie Council in New York

Social and Political

• USA
  • Landon Lecture Series at Kansas State University^[4]
  • Whizin Center Public Lecture Series at the American Jewish University

Aeronautics and Astronautics

• USA
  • 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
• USA
  • 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

• UK
  • Caird Medal lecture series at the National Maritime Museum
  • Ford Lectures, given annually at Oxford University on British history
  • Lees Knowles Lectures, given annually military history at Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Raleigh Lectures on History at the British Academy,^[5] London, England,
  • Black History for Action at Lambeth Town Hall, London, England.
  • Keynes Lectures in Economics at the British Academy, London, England.
• USA
  • Annual History Lecture series from University of Washington Alumni Association (UWAA).
  • Chicago Humanities Festival
  • James Ford Bell Lecture series at the University of Minnesota
  • Jefferson Lecture, annual honorary lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Massey Lectures (Harvard University)
  • W. A. Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition, Miami University since 1962

Journalism and Media Studies

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

Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences

• USA
  • 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
• USA
  • 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
• USA
  • 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

References

1. "Vasant Vyakhyanmala to start from April 21" (19 April 2011). sakal news papers. sakaltimes. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
2. "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.
3. "Distinctive Voices Home". Nasonline.org. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
4. "Landon Lecture Series - Home Page - KSU-OME". Ome.ksu.edu. 2004-07-31. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
5. "Information about the British Academy's Lecture series - British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-06-17.