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2 unusual facts about Public lecture


Public lecture

In the 19th century, the popularity of the public lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution was so great that the volume of carriage traffic in Albemarle Street caused it to become the first one-way street in London.

Public autoposies have sometimes verged on entertainment: American showman P. T. Barnum held a public autopsy of Joice Heth after her death.



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Aventis School of Management

On April 9, Aventis in collaboration with Zicklin School of Business hosted the Annual Public Lecture Series-Beyond The Financial Crisis: Ethics & Professional Responsibilities by Professor Larry Zicklin who endowed the Wharton's Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity (CCI) at Baruch College.

Bureau for Open Culture

It was accompanied a group reading of Jean-François Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy and a public lecture addressing the Women’s Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia and Silvio Berlusconi.

Coup de glotte

A very resounding condemnation of the coup de glotte as a singing technique was given by Victor Maurel, in a public lecture at the Lyceum Theatre in July 1892.

Frue Plads

In 1644, Simon Paulli took the initiative of converting one of the university's buildings overlooking Church of Our Lady's graveyard into an anatomical theatre, Domus Anatomica, although Paulli did not hold his first public lecture until3 March 1645.

Klaus Riedel

While in Berlin, he attended a public lecture on rocketry by Rudolf Nebel on behalf of Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") and joined the group straight away, becoming very active in its efforts to build a working rocket that resulted in the Mirak and Repulsor rockets, providing his family's farm as a testing ground.

LGBT rights in Iran

In 1972, Dr. Saviz Shafaii gave a public lecture on homosexuality at the Shiraz University and in 1976 would research sexual orientation and gender issues at the Syracuse University.

Philosophy For All

Its bi-annual Public Lecture is often attended by more than 100 people and its monthly Kant's Cave talks, which are often given by notable academics, regularly draw 70 or so people to a room above a pub in Euston.

Stewart Russell

Collaborating with the National Museum of Scotland Stewart developed the innovative "Understanding Technology" public lecture series.

Terreform ONE

A public lecture series occurs during the seminars that includes design luminaries such as; Vito Acconci, Dickson Despommier, Natalie Jeremijenko, Christian Hubert.