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unusual facts about lecture series



Lauro De Bosis

In 1938, actress Ruth Draper made an endowment to maintain a lecture series on Italian culture, history and society, named after De Bosis in Harvard University.


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Adam Smith College

The Adam Smith Lecture series has attracted prestigious national and international speakers including: Alan Greenspan KBE, who spoke while Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the USA; and Sir Mervyn King, Governor of The Bank of England, both of whom were introduced by The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, former Prime Minister and last Chancellor of the College.

Andrew Fraknoi

Since 1999, Fraknoi has organized and moderated the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, where noted astronomers from around California and the nation give nontechnical public talks on new developments in our exploration of the universe in the large Smithwick Theater at Foothill College.

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.

Bloomsbury Theatre

Amongst the many other artists who have performed at the theatre are; UCL alumnus Ricky Gervais has performed two of his standup shows in the theatre, where they were also filmed for release on DVD and was the venue for Crusader Norman Housley come-back lecture series: Contesting the Crusades, which he developed into a popular history book.

Center for Quantum Studies

The Center was inaugurated on November 29, 2006, by Center Director Jeffrey Tollaksen in honor of the arrival of Yakir Aharonov, prior to the first of the Aharonov Lecture Series talks, which was given by William D. Phillips.

Dennis Monokroussos

His lecture series originally began as "Great Games in Chess History" on Chess.FM, which is now a part of the Internet Chess Club.

East–West University

The East-West Perspectives lecture series has attracted prominent speakers such as architect Jeanne Gang, journalist Salim Muwakkil, investment manager Louis Holland, author and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan, former Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Conklin, and Beyond the Beltway host Bruce DuMont.

F. Thomson Leighton

He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) and of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and he has participated in the Distinguished Lecture Series at CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI).

Globe Corner Bookstore

The Globe Corner Bookstore's Adventure Travel Lecture Series had hosted Jan Morris, Bradford Washburn, William Dalrymple, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Roger Tory Peterson, Rory Stewart, and David Allen Sibley, in addition to other well-known authors and travel writers.

Harold McGee

Along with Dave Arnold and Nils Norén, he also teaches a three-day class at The French Culinary Institute in New York City entitled the Harold McGee Lecture Series.

Harrell F. Beck

Beck’s contributions have been recognized with the establishment of an annual lecture series sponsored by the Massachusetts Bible Society.

Hiroki Azuma

Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at Hosei University which Azuma was auditing.

History of organic farming

This began with a lecture series Steiner presented at a farm in Koberwitz (Kobierzyce now in Poland) in 1924.

Jesse Helms Center

The Helms Center hosts a center-sponsored lecture series with such notable participants as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and the Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Leonard Steinhorn

Steinhorn has spoken as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Clinton School of Public Service, at Charles University in Prague, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Live electronic music

Robert Ashley - Wolfman (1964), Lecture Series (1965), Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1968)

Marjorie Barrick Museum

Speakers at the Barrick Lecture Series have included international figures and heads of state, such as Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Mikhail Gorbachev and F. W. de Klerk.

Philip Southern

He won $10,000.00 and tickets for two to a grand opening of a major collection showing at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and VIP access to the lecture series and workshops at the museum.

Quentin Skinner

Skinner has delivered many prestigious lecture-series, including the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton (1980), the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford (1980), the Messenger Lectures at Cornell (1983), the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Harvard (1984), the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Kent (1995), the Ford Lectures at Oxford (2003), the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford (2011) and the Clark Lectures at Cambridge (2012).

Robert Boyle Lecture

The Robert Boyle Lecture is a lecture series delivered to the Oxford University Scientific Club (formerly the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club) at the University of Oxford, England.

Stewart Russell

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

Strategy Safari

Strategy Safari (FT Prentice Hall, 2002), subtitled "A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management" by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel is an overview of the full field of academic and business studies of strategy, based on a previous lecture series by Mintzberg.

Tarner

Tarner Lectures, philosophy of science lecture series at Trinity College, Cambridge

Terreform ONE

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

The State News

In another controversy, when the local Congressman demanded in 1950 that Michigan State remove left-leaning economist Paul Douglas (later U.S. Senator from Illinois) from its lecture series, the paper fought back in a series of editorials that resulted in the Congressman turning tail.

University of Kansas School of Business

The Anderson W. Chandler Lecture Series began in 1997 and is made possible by alumnus Anderson Chandler, CEO, president and director of Fidelity State Bank and Trust Co. in Topeka, Kansas.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Ketterle serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), and participates in the Distinguished Lecture Series of CEE's flagship program for high school students, the Research Science Institute (RSI), which Ketterle's own son Jonas attended in 2003.