McKenzie Lectures

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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."<ref>[https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/mckenzie-lectures McKenzie Lectures.] University of Oxford.</ref> The lectures are held in Oxford at the Centre for the Study of the Book (Bodleian Libraries).<ref>"McKenzie Lectures." ''The Oxford Companion to the Book.'' Oxford University Press, 2010.</ref> 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.<ref name=Lyell>{{cite web |title=The Lyell and McKenzie Lectures |publisher=Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Libraries |date=2016 |accessdate=24 Dec 2016 |url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/lyell}}</ref>

== 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 Gisèle Sapiro: ''Authorship in Transnational Perspective'' * 2017 Peter Kornicki: ''Publish and Perish in Japan: Why manuscripts continued to circulate in the age of print'' <ref name=Lectures>{{cite web |title=Lectures and Seminars in Oxford |publisher=Bodleian Libraries |date=2016 |accessdate=24 Dec 2016 |url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/events}}</ref> * 2019 Kate Nation: ''Learning to Read: linking biology and culture via cognition'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-learning-read-linking-biology-and-culture-cognition |title=The D F McKenzie Lecture - Learning to read: linking biology and culture via cognition |website=University of Oxford News & Events |archivedate=24 Nov 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124105133/https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-learning-read-linking-biology-and-culture-cognition}}</ref> * 2020 Kathryn Sutherland, Dirk van Hulle, Peter D. McDonald; Richard Ovenden (Chair): ''McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/19c35071-3b37-4a5b-a97c-0a02e1279ce2/ |title= The D. F. McKenzie Lecture 2020: 'McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections' |website=Oxford Talks |accessdate=24 Nov 2021 |archivedate=24 Nov 2021 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20211124104453/https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/19c35071-3b37-4a5b-a97c-0a02e1279ce2/}}</ref> * 2021 Francesca Orsini: ''The magazine and world literature''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-2021-magazine-and-world-literature |title=The D F McKenzie Lecture 2021: The magazine and world literature |accessdate=24 Nov 2021 |archivedate=24 Nov 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124103635/https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie-lecture-2021-magazine-and-world-literature}}</ref> *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''

==References== {{reflist}}

*[https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100144644 Donald Francis McKenzie]; Oxford Index

* Category:History of books Category:History of literature Category:Lecture series at the University of Oxford Category:Textual criticism Category:1996 establishments in England Category:Recurring events established in 1996

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