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Name: Professor Peter Boxall
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Friday 28 November 2025
A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
professor Daniel Waklein (University of Oxford),
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge),
Juliette Atkinson (UCL),
Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford),
Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge),
Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Wednesday 22 January 2025
‘Decolonising the Curriculum’
Date: 22 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Holywell Music Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 24 January 2025
‘Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in Toni Morrison’
Date: 24 January 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: LR6
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 26 February 2025
"World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman" / ‘The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster),
Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 March 2025
The Absent Cause: Postcolonial Thought and the Atlantic Archive
Date: 13 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 7 May 2025
“Migrant Hospitalities: Scenes of Arrival in the Windrush era and after”
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Jo McDonagh,
Julia Hori
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 21 May 2025
"'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 May 2025
Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 28 May 2025
The Art of the Protest Novel
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Sarah Cole
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 4 June 2025
“The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Marina McKay,
Adam Guy
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 18 June 2025
, “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Julian Murphet
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 October 2025
‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives at Sea’
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 October 2025
'Billy Budd' roundtable discussion
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford),
Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London),
Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University),
Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford),
Michael Jonik (University of Sussex),
Edouard Marosin (Université Paris Cité)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 October 2025
"Utopia across Disciplines”: A conversation between Douglas Mao and Duncan Bell
Date: 29 October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University and 2025 Astor Visiting Lecturer, Oxford),
Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Garden Room, Levine Building
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 October 2025
“Utopia and the End of the World”: a lecture (Hosted by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages)
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Doug Mao (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Auditorium, Levine Building
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Leverhulme Early Career Researcher roundtable discussion
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Mae Losasso (University of Warwick),
Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford),
Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Wharton Room
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 November 2025
A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
professor Daniel Waklein (University of Oxford),
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge),
Juliette Atkinson (UCL),
Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford),
Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge),
Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers:
Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford),
Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford),
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
