# List of public lecture series

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.

### 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