The Panizzi Lectures 2024 – Black Bibliography, Here and Now

Tickets are now available for the 2024 Panizzi Lecture Series which will take place at the British Library and online in December.

This year’s series, Black Bibliography, Here and Now, will be delivered by Elizabeth McHenry, Professor of English at New York University. In the course of her three lectures, Professor McHenry will explore the stakes and challenges of studying the history of Black print, what defines Black bibliography, and how renewed attention to it might lead us to a better understanding of the ways Black writing has been produced, conceptualized and valued.

In-person and online bookings can be made via the following links. All tickets are free:

Lecture 1, Thursday 5 December 2024, 6.30pm In Search of Black Readers

Lecture 2, Tuesday 10 December, 6.30pm Thinking Bibliographically

Lecture 3, Thursday 12 December, 6.30pm Spaces of Black Study