The Rod Wallace Memorial Lectures
The Friends have established the Rod Wallace Memorial Lecture series to commemorate the pioneering achievements of Roderick Wallace AM, the ‘godfather’ of the NFSA. Each year a public figure will be invited to deliver a lecture of lasting import which will be recorded and be permanently accessible. While the choice of topic is left to the speaker, the lecture series aims to reflect aspects of the preservation and dissemination of the audiovisual heritage.
The 2024 lecture by Deb Verhoeven details are here.
The recording of the 2023 lecture by Jenny Hocking is here
Read about our inaugural lecturer Kim Williams
The 2022 lecture is titled Why bother? Reflections on the duty of care to Australians’ creativity. It is available to read as simple text or text with pictures. The event was captured live, and the video record was subsequently edited to include the film and audio clips that were presented to the audience as the talk proceeded. If you would like to download and keep your own copy, you can do so: Download the lecture video or you can simply Watch the lecture video on YouTube