McKenzie Lectures explained

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),http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88676676/ upon his retirement as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford.^[3]

Lectures

• 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 : 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

• A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography
• E. A. Lowe Lectures
• Lyell Lectures
• Panizzi Lectures
• Sandars Lectures

References

• Donald Francis McKenzie

Oxford Index

Notes and References

1. https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/mckenzie-lectures McKenzie Lectures.
2. "McKenzie Lectures." The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press, 2010.
3. Web site: The Lyell and McKenzie Lectures . Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries . 2016 . 24 Dec 2016 .
4. Web site: Lectures and Seminars in Oxford . Bodleian Libraries . 2016 . 24 Dec 2016 .
5. Web site: The D F McKenzie Lecture - Learning to read: linking biology and culture via cognition . University of Oxford News & Events . 24 Nov 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211124105133/https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-learning-read-linking-biology-and-culture-cognition.
6. Web site: The D. F. McKenzie Lecture 2020: 'McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections' . Oxford Talks . 24 Nov 2021 . 24 Nov 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211124104453/https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/19c35071-3b37-4a5b-a97c-0a02e1279ce2/.
7. Web site: The D F McKenzie Lecture 2021: The magazine and world literature . 24 Nov 2021 . 24 Nov 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211124103635/https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-2021-magazine-and-world-literature.