The Panizzi Lectures 2025 delivered by Professor Isabel Hofmeyr | British Library and ONLINE

Books in their Elements: Print Culture in the Age of Climate Change
The Panizzi Lectures 2025, delivered by Professor Isabel Hofmeyr.

The Panizzi Lectures are a series of annual lectures based on original research by an eminent scholar of the book. The lecture series is named after Anthony Panizzi, former Principal Librarian of the British Museum. They have been delivered annually since 1985.

 This year the series consists of three lectures given by Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

 Monday 27 October, 18.30: Lecture 1 – Plants, politics and print in South Africa: Botany and buried books – Smuts, Gandhi and Mandela

Thursday 30 October, 18.30: Lecture 2 – Insects, colonial archives and postcolonial book history

Monday 3 November, 18.30: Lecture 3 – Dried plants and print: Herbaria and African herbalists

Full details here : https://events.bl.uk/events/books-in-their-elements

This event will take place in the British Library Knowledge Centre and is also available to watch online

Tickets may be booked to attend in person, or to watch online. Due to venue capacity, in person tickets are restricted to a maximum of two per booking.