Until 2019, LUCIS hosted one annual lecture, inviting an eminent scholar to give a large-scale lecture in one of the finer halls at Leiden University. Because of their success, we now organise four larger lectures every year, entitled LUCIS Keynotes.

Previous annual lectures

2019	Florence Bergeaud-Blackler	Halal Market: the Invention of a Tradition
2018	Ziauddin Sardar	From Islamisation to the Integration of Knowledge
2017	Matthew Erie	Sharia, Law, and China
2016	Driss Moussaoui	A Psychiatrist in a Muslim Country
2015	Lucette Valensi & Abraham Udovitch	Familiar Strangers: Muslims in Europe, 16-18th century (Valensi) Religious Law and Secular Documents and the Economic Realities of the Medieval Islamic World (Udovitch)
2012	Merové Gijsberts	SCP-rapport Moslim in Nederland 2012
2011	John Bowen	Sharia, Snouck, and Europe
2010	Robert Gleave	Justifications for Violence in Islamic Thought