The phrase "seminal lecture" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a lecture or presentation that was especially important, influential, or groundbreaking. For example, "The professor's seminal lecture about the future of artificial intelligence caused a lot of discussion in the field."
So, below you will find both Justice Sonia Sotomayor's seminal lecture "A Latina Judge's Voice" and a video about what it means to be Garifuna in the United States.
These include a mock-medieval story, Farmer Giles of Ham (1949); The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962), poetry related to The Lord of the Rings; Tree and Leaf (1964), with the seminal lecture "On Fairy-Stories" and the tale "Leaf by Niggle"; and the fantasy Smith of Wootton Major (1967).
In 1856, Trendelenburg delivered a seminal lecture entitled "Über Leibnizens Entwurf einer allgemeinen Charakteristik" at the Leibniz ceremony of the Academy at Berlin (Trendelenburg 1857).
In his seminal lecture "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" Alasdair MacIntyre contrasts patriotism with the liberal commitment to certain universal values and principles.
Building upon a body of scholarship stretching back to Erwin Ackerknecht's seminal 1948 lecture, published in this journal, in this article, I examine the transformation of "anticontagionist" epidemiology from the neo-Hippocratic traditions of eighteenth-century climatic medicine to the filth-centered sanitarianism of the mid-nineteenth century.
Fenollosa's own obsession with Japan had been inspired by Edward Sylvester Morse, a principal Western figure at Tokyo Imperial University, who in 1881 delivered a seminal set of lectures in Boston on Japanese folkways.
I have taken courses from industry experts - the scholars who wrote the seminal texts are often lecturing in my class.
A respected academic, he was the author and co-author of several seminal books in international banking and lectured widely.
The principal example of these is the scheme of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a seminal German philosopher, in his famous Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1832).
In the sequence of courses, the 'Prolegomena' were followed by lectures on Porphyry's seminal 'Introduction to Aristotle's Categories'.
Nurse credited her numerous contributions to his science in his Nobel lecture, as well as the seminal work of Kathy Gould, who helped define the regulatory events triggering cell division.
