The McKenzie Lectures are a series of annual public lectures delivered by "a distinguished scholar on the history of the book, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts."[1] The lectures are held in Oxford at the Centre for the Study of the Book (Bodleian Libraries).[2] The series was inaugurated in 1996, in honour of Donald Francis McKenzie (1931–1999),[1] upon his retirement as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford.[3]

Lectures

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  • 1996 David McKitterick: Printers in the Marketplace
  • 1997 Roger Chartier: Foucault’s Chiasmus: Authorship between Science and Literature
  • 1998 Joseph Viscomi: Blake’s Graphic Imagination: the Technical and Aesthetic Origins of Blake’s Illuminated Books
  • 1999 Lawrence Rainey: The Cultural Economy of Modernism
  • 2000 Harold Love: The Intellectual Heritage of Donald Francis McKenzie
  • 2001 Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: Women’s Literary History by Electronic Means. the creation and communication of meaning in the Orlando Project
  • 2002 Paul Needham: The Discovery and Invention of the Gutenberg Bible
  • 2003 Laurel Brake: 'Daily Calendars of Roguery and Woe’. The Politics of Print in 19th-century Britain
  • 2004 Graham Shaw: In or Out? — South Asia and a Global History of the Book
  • 2005 John Barnard: Keats and Posterity: Manuscript, Print, and Readers
  • 2006 Gary Taylor: The Man Who Made Shakespeare. England’s First Literary Publisher
  • 2007 Robert Darnton: Bohemians before Bohemianism: Grub Street Libertines in Paris and London 1770–1789 — Keats and Posterity; Manuscript, Print, and Readers
  • 2008 Isabel Hofmeyr: Gandhi’s Printing Press: Print Cultures in the Indian Ocean
  • 2009 Jerome McGann: Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture
  • 2010 Henry Woudhuysen: A. W. Pollard (1859–1944): Friends and Fine Printing
  • 2011 Paul Eggert: Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature
  • 2012 John B. Thompson: Merchants of Culture
  • 2013 Xu Bing: The Sort of Artist I Am
  • 2014 William Noel: Bibliography in Bits: the study of books in the twenty-first century
  • 2015 Sheldon Pollock: Editing in India: the First 1500 years
  • 2016 Gisèle Sapiro: Authorship in Transnational Perspective
  • 2017 Peter Kornicki: Publish and Perish in Japan: Why manuscripts continued to circulate in the age of print [4]
  • 2019 Kate Nation: Learning to Read: linking biology and culture via cognition [5]
  • 2020 Kathryn Sutherland, Dirk van Hulle, Peter D. McDonald; Richard Ovenden (Chair): McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections[6]
  • 2021 Francesca Orsini: The magazine and world literature[7]
  • 2022 Richard Ovenden: Photography and the Book
  • 2023 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: The New Nature of the Book: Publishing and Printing in the Post-Digital Era
  • 2024: Mary Mount and Peter Straus: Editing and publishing in the 21st century

See also

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References

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  1. ^ McKenzie Lectures. University of Oxford.
  2. ^ "McKenzie Lectures." The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  3. ^ "The Lyell and McKenzie Lectures". Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries. 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Lectures and Seminars in Oxford". Bodleian Libraries. 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  5. ^ "The D F McKenzie Lecture - Learning to read: linking biology and culture via cognition". University of Oxford News & Events. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021.
  6. ^ "The D. F. McKenzie Lecture 2020: 'McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections'". Oxford Talks. Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  7. ^ "The D F McKenzie Lecture 2021: The magazine and world literature". Archived from the original on 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.