thumb|right|upright=1.25|[[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

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

Australia

  • Public lectures in physics at University of Melbourne

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

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