Jack Williamson Lectureship

When Jack Williamson retired from his position as professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University in 1977, the University established a lectureship series in his honor – the Jack Williamson Lectureship.

#	Year	Guest(s) of Honor	Theme, Notes
1	1977	James Gunn, Frederik Pohl	Humanism, the Humanities, and the Future
2	1978		Golden Anniversary celebration of Jack Williamson's career as an author
3	1979	June Goodfield, Jack Williamson	Playing God: the New Biology Moral Issues and Genetic Engineering: Fiction into Fact!
4	1980	Ben Abruzzo	The Future of Balloon Flights
5	1981	Vartan Gregorian	Past and Future
6	1982	John Newport	America's Continuing Controversy over Humanism
7	1983	Gordon Greaves, Robert Silverberg	If... or, The Janus View and The Future of Humanism
8	1984	Ihab Hassan	Imaginary Cities
9	1985	William Eamon	Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905
10	1986	Edward Bryant	Ad Astra per Covered Wagon: When our President was Jack Williamson's Future
11	1987	Thelma Shinn	Worlds within Women: Programs for Social Change in Women's SF and Fantasy
12	1988	Thomas Clareson	Latitude: Portales; Dimension: Williamson
13	1989	Harlan Ellison	The Great, Lost, Ancient Secret of Fame and Success as a writer, Part I
14	1990	Julius Kargarlitski	SF and Perestroika
15	1991	Stephen R. Donaldson	Epic Fantasy and the Modern World
16	1992	Joe Haldeman	The Three Cultures
17	1993	Jerry Pournelle	The Future of Democracy
18	1994	Frederik Pohl, Connie Willis, Charles N. Brown	A Century of Science Fiction: 1926-2026
19	1995	Suzy McKee Charnas, Roger Zelazny, George R. R. Martin, Jane Lindskold	Humanities in the 21st Century
20	1996	C. J. Cherryh, Tim Powers	Worlds Enough and Time: Alternative Space in SF
21	1997	Melinda Snodgrass, Mike Resnick, Michael Cassutt	Images of the Future in Science Fiction Film and Television
22	1998	Nancy Kress, Terry Bisson	Designer Genes and Brave New Worlds
23	1999	Connie Willis, Greg Bear, Charles N. Brown	The Millennium Voyeur
24	2000	James R. Frenkel, Joan D. Vinge, Joe Haldeman	Forevers, Unlimited
25	2001	Scott Edelman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith	New Science for a New Century
26	2002	George R. R. Martin, Michael Swanwick	Dragons, Dinosaurs, and Darwin
27	2003	Joe Haldeman, Connie Willis	Celebrating 75
28	2004	Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg	Space Opera: Then and Now
29	2005	Walter Jon Williams, Gregory Benford	Posthumanity Evolving
30	2006	Kim Stanley Robinson, Frederik Pohl	Ecological Apocalypse
31	2007	Connie Willis, Richard A. Hauptmann, Eleanor Wood	Metal Man to Stonehenge Gate: Seventy-Nine Years of Science Fiction
32	2008	Steven Gould, Alberto Rojo	Translocation/Transformation: Conjuring the Future
33	2009	Nalo Hopkinson, Gardner Dozois	New Moon Rising: Telling Science Fiction
34	2010	Ian Tregillis	Science Fantasy: Into the Next Decade
35	2011	Melinda Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt	Six Minutes into the Future: SF in Film and TV
36	2012	Daniel Abraham, Carrie Vaughn	Urban Fantasy
37	2013	Joe Haldeman	-
38	2014	Darynda Jones	The Wide World of Speculative Fiction
39	2015	Paolo Bacigalupi	Windup Worlds
40	2016	Victor Milán	The Many Faces of Victor Milán
41	2017	Melinda Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt	Reimagining the Super Hero: Celebrating 30 Years of Wild Cards
42	2018	S. M. Stirling	Changes
43	2019	Alex Rivera	Trans-border Fantasies and Nightmares
44	2020	Rebecca Roanhorse, James Patrick Kelly	postponed to late 2020 April 22–23, 2021, and held online due to the Covid-19 epidemic

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