The Panizzi Lectures 2024 Focus on Black Bibliography
Kings Library tower and public areas in the British Library
The 2024 iteration of the annual Panizzi Lectures take place at the British Library and online this month on the subject of Black Bibliography, Here and Now.
Given by eminent scholars of the book, this year’s lectures will be delivered by Elizabeth McHenry, Professor of English at New York University and author of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies and To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. She will concentrated on studying the history of Black print, the definition of Black bibliography, and how this affects the ways Black writing and print culture has been produced, conceptualized and valued.
The three lectures are:
- Lecture 1: December 5, 6.30pm - In Search of Black Readers
- Lecture 2: Tuesday 10 December 10, 6.30pm - Thinking Bibliographically
- Lecture 3: December 12, 6.30pm - Spaces of Black Study
The lectures will be held in the British Library Knowledge Centre Pigott Theatre and simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform.
