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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
• 2022  Sofie Laguna presents
• 2021  Tony Birch in conversation with ʯÁñÊÓƵ'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