STAT (since 1960) and AmSAT (since 1993) have held annual F. Matthias Alexander Memorial Lectures. Below is a list of the lectures where known.
In STAT’s early days there were no STAT newsletters (it first appeared in 1983) and the Alexander Journal was published irregularly, meaning that for a number of years it is not known who gave the lecture (or indeed if a lecture was given).
STAT’s F. Matthias Alexander Memorial Lectures
1960: ‘Physiological gradients’ by A. Rugg-Gunn (1960?, no date, but the author says it is the first Memorial Lecture).[1]
1961: ‘Alexander’s meeting with Coghill’ by Edward H. Owen.[2]
1962: Eric de Peyer?
1963: ‘On giving directions, doing and non-doing’ by Patrick Macdonald.[3]
1964
1965: ‘The teaching of F. Matthias Alexander’ by Marjory Barlow.[4]
1966
1967
1968
1969: ‘Man’s future as an individual’ by Walter Carrington.[5]
1970
1971: Richard Walker? (‘Aims and values’)
1972: ‘The Alexander principle and some spiritual disciplines’ by Geoffrey Curtis.[6]
1973: ‘First of the second generation’ by Joyce Bird.[7]
1974
1975: Tony Buzan?
1976: ‘Use and misuse in evolutionary perspective’ by N. Tinbergen.[8]
1977
1978: Sheila Nelson?
1979: ‘The Alexander Technique and acting’ (?) by Michael McCallion.
1980: ‘Horsemanship and the Alexander experience’ by Daniel Pevsner.[9]
1981
1982: ‘John Dewey and F. M. Alexander: 36 years of friendship’ by Alexander Murray.[10]
1983: Dr Wilfred Barlow?
1984: ‘Thinking about thinking about ourselves’ by David Gorman.[11]
1985: ‘F. M. remembered’ by Erika Whittaker.[12]
1986: ‘The Alexander Technique in a larger context’ by John Nicholls.[13]
1987: ‘The Alexander Technique in the preparation and performance of music’ by Nelly Ben-Or.[14]
1988: ‘Scientific research and its role in teaching the Alexander Technique’ by Chris Stevens.[15]
1989: ‘On learning and teaching the F. M. Alexander Technique’ by Kathleen Ballard.[16]
1990: ‘A personal view of the Alexander Technique’ by Misha Magidov.[17]
1991: ‘The matter about words’ by Paul Burge.[18]
1992: ‘The vital significance of the Alexander Technique in the coming period of change’ (also published as ‘The true wholeness’) by Sir George Trevelyan.[19]
1993: ‘F. M. Alexander as I knew him’ by Walter Carrington.[20]
1994: ‘Alexander’s discoveries and what we have made of them’ by Adam Nott.[21]
1995: ‘The essence of F.M.’s Teaching’ by Marjory Barlow.[22]
1996: ‘Our journey to South Africa’ by Elisabeth Walker.[23]
1997: ‘F. M. Alexander’s training course: The last years’ by Tony Spawforth.[24]
1998: ‘A pupil’s perspective on the Alexander Technique’ by Bryan Niblett.
1999: ‘The care of the professional voice’ by D. Garfield Davies.
2000: ‘The Little School and beyond’ by Sue Merry and Judith Kleinman.
2001: ‘The adventures of leg and his companion, voice, and how they were led into debauchery and deprivation and of their redemption thence into proper function’ by Michael McCallion.[25]
2002: ‘Making the link – A slow-learner’s attempt to make sense of the first twenty-five years’ by John Hunter.[26]
2003: ‘Candles and onions – Layers of learning’ by Carolyn Nicholls.[27]
2004: ‘Letting it happen – Chance, choice and change’ by Mary Holland.[28]
2005: No memorial lecture was given in 2005.
2006: ‘Hope for chronic back pain sufferers – The MRC ATEAM trial’ by Paul Little.[29]
2007: ‘Some different viewpoints on an Alexander lesson’ by Elizabeth Atkinson.[30]
2008: ‘The first step’ by Anne Battye.[31]
2009: ‘Five decades: By your pupils you’ll be taught’ by Jean Clark.[32]
2010: ‘Doing only what is necessary and taking the time it takes’ by Vivien Mackie.[33]
2011: ‘The Alexander Memorial Lecture’ by Yehuda Kuperman.[34]
2012: ‘The Alexander Memorial Lecture’ by Alan Philps.[35]
2013: ‘Stimulus and response’ by Jean M. O. Fischer.
2014: ‘Alexander, music and education: Paths to self acceptance and to self development’ by Judith Kleinmann.[36]
2015: ‘Is there a subject?’ by Jamie McDowell.[37]
2016: ‘Beyond words’ by Malcolm Williamson.
2017: ‘The Alexander Technique’s contribution to well-being in pregnancy and natural childbirth’ by Ilana Machover.
2018: ‘The Alexander Technique: Looking backwards, forwards and sideways’ by Peter Ribeaux.
NASTAT, AmSAT’s F. M. Alexander Memorial Lectures
(sometimes also referred to as ‘F. M. Alexander Memorial Address’).
1993: ‘NASTAT’s 1st Annual F. M. Alexander Memorial Lecture’ by Frank Ottiwell.[38]
1994: ‘2nd Annual Memorial Lecture’ by Barbara Kent.[39]
1995: ‘F. M. Alexander’s teaching: Our supreme inheritance’ by Alexander Murray.[40]
1996: ‘Frank Pierce Jones’s life and work’ by Missy Vineyard.[41]
1997: ‘Life, death and learning’ by Michael D. Frederick.[42]
1998: ‘F. M. Alexander Memorial Lecture’ by Judith Stransky.[43]
1999: ‘Feathers of consciousness’ by Saura Bartner.[44]
2000: Giora Pinkas (not published).
2001: ‘The Alexander Technique: Discovering the link between mind and body’ by Ted Dimon.[45]
2002: ‘The role of women in the growth of the Alexander community’ by Alexander Murray.[46]
2003: Jackie Evans (not published).
2004: ‘Letting it happen – Chance, choice and change’ by Mary Holland.[47]
2005: ‘Where are we going?’ by John Nicholls.[48]
2006: ‘Alexander Technique in my life, past and present’ by Rome Earle.[49]
2007: ‘Discoveries on my Alexander journey’ by Ann Sickels Mathews.[50]
2008: ‘Forty years with the Alexander Technique’ by Jean Clark.[51]
2009: ‘The first step’ by Anne Battye.[52]
2010: ‘Dart, then (1967) and now (2010)’ by Joan Murray.[53]
2011: ‘“Lighten Up!’ by Robert Britton.[54]
2012: ‘The living memory’ by Pamela Blanc.[55]
2013: ‘What do we mean by the head in the Alexander Technique?’ by Galen Cranz.[56]
2014: ‘Expect the unexpected’ by John A. Baron.[57]
2015: ‘Confusion, courage, clarity’ by Sumi Komo.[58]
2016: ‘The Alexander Technique: On the brink of extinction and poised to break through to the mainstream’ by N. Brooke Lieb.[59]
2017: ‘Penetrating into the essence’ by Giora Pinkas.[60]
