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The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies runs an annual public lecture in memory of Professor Colin Roderick. The lecture is typically held in Winter each year and the public are encouraged to attend.
Previous speakers include:
- 2023 Jock Serong presents Historical Crime is Our One True Genre ( | )
- 2022 Sofie Laguna presents
- 2021 Tony Birch in conversation with JCU's Dr Roger Osborne, .
- 2020 Professor Henry Reynolds, Seeing Australian History from the North Down
- 2019 Bri Lee, How we keep pens mighty: Writing against power
- 2018 Alexis Wright, In Conversation with the author of Tracker
- 2017 Gail Jones, Bewilderment and Sticky Fingerprints: Our Other History
- 2016 Anna Goldsworthy, The Lost Art of Listening: an evening of music and conversation
- 2015 Joanna Murray-Smith, The Autobiographical Imagination: How whimsy, flights of fancy and fantasy are ignited by life
- 2014 Drusilla Modjeska, The Informed Imagination – Writing PNG: Land of Unlikeness
- 2012 Frank Moorhouse, Stories from the Archives:Creating the Edith Trilogy
- 2011 David Williamson, Dead White Males Revisited
- 2010 Peter Goldsworthy, The Film of the Book: Stories and their Mutations (included screening of a film of Goldsworthy’s short story,“The Kiss”)
- 2009 Peter Steele, Past, Present and Future: Poetryas the Mind in Love
- 2008 John Clanchy, Consolations of an Australian Writing Life
- 2007 Nicolas Rothwell, The language of nature and the language of man
- 2006 Graeme Blundell, Graeme on Graham (Kennedy)
- 2005 Robert Manne, The Strange Case of Cornelia Rau
- 2004 Alex Miller, Prophets of the Imagination, or,The Journey’s not over yet, old mate
- 2003 Don Watson, Death Sentence: the decay of public language
- 2002 Peter Rose, The Consolations of Biography
- 2001 Gabrielle Lord and Roger Johnson, Psychological Thrillers
- 2000 Raimond Gaita, Politics and Morality
- 1999 Peter Conrad, The Second Discovery of Australia
- 1998 Morag Fraser, Australia: Shadows and Substances
- 1997 Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question
- 1996 Robert Jordan, Australia’s Early Convict Theatres
- 1995 Graeme Turner,
- 1994 Dennis Haskell,
- 1993 Helen Thomson,
- 1992 Michael Wilding,
- 1991 Dr Shirley Walker,
- 1990 W H (Bill) Wilde,
- 1989 Jennifer Strauss,
- 1988 Julian Croft,
- 1987 Dr Val Vallis,
- 1986 Dr Brian Matthews,
- 1985 Dorothy Green,
- 1984 Bruce Bennett,
- 1983 Professor A D Hope,
- 1982 Les A Murray, Reflections of an Australian Poet
- 1981 Mark O'Connor,
- 1980 Chris Wallace-Crabbe,
- 1979 Dr Stephen Murray-Smith, Books and the Man—A Literary Biography
- 1978 Thea Astley,
- 1977 Dr Elizabeth Perkins, Australian Drama Alive
- 1976 Dr Clement Semmler, Four Modern Writers
- 1975 Professor H P Heseltine, Acquainted with the Night
- 1974 M Xavier Pons, The Australian Short Story
- 1973 Dr L T Hergenhan, Australian Convict Literature
- 1972 Dr N Macainsh, The New Australian Poetry
- 1971 H G Kippax, Drama in Australia
- 1970 Professor Leonie Kramer, The Modern Australian Novel
- 1969 Doris Fitton, The Independent Theatre
- 1968 Professor J McAuley,
- 1967 Professor G A Wilkes, Novelists of Australia
- 1966 Rohan Rivett, Writing About Australia