2025: Zen Cho, author and lawyer
‘The Uses of Fantasy‘

2024: Neil Gaiman, author, comic book creator, screenwriter
‘Hand Grenade Pins: On Libraries and the Fantastic’

2023: Maria Dahvana Headley, author, editor, and translator
‘Tell Me a Story’

2022: Rebecca F. Kuang, author and academic
‘Goodness, Beauty, and Truth: The Value of Art in Times of Crisis’

2021: Guy Gavriel Kay, author
‘Just Enough Light: Some Thoughts on Fantasy and Literature’

2020: Panel Discussion with Rebecca F. Kuang, Victoria E. Schwab, Terri Windling, Lev Grossman, Adam Roberts, Kij Johnson
‘Fantasy in Times of Crisis’

2019: Marlon James, author and academic
‘Our Myths, Our Selves‘

2018: Victoria Schwab, author
‘In Search of Doors‘

2017: Susan Cooper, author
‘A Catch of the Breath‘

2016: Terri Windling, author, editor, and artist
‘Tolkien’s Long Shadow: Reflections on Fantasy Literature in the Post-Tolkien Era‘

2015: Lev Grossman, author and journalist
‘Fear and Loathing in Aslan’s Land’

2014: Adam Roberts, author and academic
‘Tolkien and Women’

2013: Kij Johnson, author and academic
‘Inaugural Pembroke Lecture on Fantasy Literature in Honour of J.R.R. Tolkien’

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Photos of our past speakers, standing in the spot where Tolkien once stood