List of public lecture series
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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;
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