Name: Elleke Boehmer

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
Date: 30 January 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Prison poetics - the poetry of Soyinka and Mapanje
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Rachel Knighton
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
Date: 27 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
Date: 5 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker s: Ann Ang (Wadham College), Achas Burin (Wadham College)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
Date: 12 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

A Lunchtime Online Seminar
Date: 11 June 2020, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker s: Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Onlinve via Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
Date: 27 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
Date: 10 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker s: Peter McDonald (Oxford), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Writing Empire Across the Indies: Literature and Colonial Identities in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930
Date: 9 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Marijke Denger (Bern)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

The Times of Rights and Writing
Date: 4 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Lyndsey Stonebridge
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

“Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
Date: 11 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Doro Wiese (Dusseldorf; WIRL research fellow, IAS, University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

"The Form and Function of Disaffection"
Date: 1 June 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
Date: 19 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
Date: 2 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker s: Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford), Chelsea Haith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
Date: 16 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

POSTPONED - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 30 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

‘Imagining Manila’
Date: 18 January 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Tom Sykes (University of Portsmouth), Ann Ang (Wadham College)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Criticism today--the state of the art
Date: 15 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rob Nixon (Princeton), Ato Quayson (Stanford), Poulomi Saha (Berkeley), Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Robert Young (NYU)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

‘Forms of Enclosure: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kojo Laing'.
Date: 8 March 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Penny Cartwright (Queen's College)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
Date: 3 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

"Ishq Vishq, Pyar Vyar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India."
Date: 12 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, Wadham College
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Multilingual Perspectives on the Colonial Novel
Date: 25 May 2022, 16:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker s: Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Marijke Denger (Bern), Richard Drayton (KCL), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rick Honings (Leiden), Coen van ’t Veer (Leiden)
Venue Details: TORCH Seminar Room
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

POSTPONED: “Listening Through Walls: Towards an Aural Feminist Poetics of Asylum”
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 June 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker : Anna Ball (NTU)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, Wadham College
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

"I'm-possible": The Singlish Poetics of parsetreeforestfire by Hamid Roslan” & “Continuity over Rupture: Rewriting Caribbean Literary History"
Date: 16 June 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker s: Ann Ang (Wadham College), Gavin Herbertson (St Catz)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, Wadham College
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Decolonising Debates: the case of Nelson Mandela (VSI)’, in discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee
Date: 3 November 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker : Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: 'Restless Acoustics: Sonic Politics and Vocal Dissonance in the Soundscapes of Asylum-Seeker Detention'
Date: 26 January 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Anna Ball (NTU)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
Date: 9 February 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Yasmin Akhtar (RHUL)
Venue Details: Day-Lewis room,
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Expanding English literature in Africa: Exploring publisher James Currey’s Contribution’
Date: 23 February 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Onyeka Nwelue (African Studies, Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Day-Lewis room,
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
Date: 9 March 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Alex Tadié (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘The Warwick Research Collective: Conversation and Reflections on World Literature’
Date: 19 October 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin), Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Broken records: researching Caribbean Women Writers of the mid-twentieth century’
Date: 2 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Professor Alison Donnell (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Arcadia in the Tropics: Indigenous Identities and the Palimpsest of Rome’
Date: 16 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Stefano Cracolici (Durham)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Digital Marechera’
Date: 30 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

On the Zimbabwean post-colony post-Mugabe: the politics and poetics of social media comedy
Date: 1 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Rodwell Makombe (North West University, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee, Ankhi Mukherjee, Elleke Boehmer
Hosts: TBA