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Professor Elleke Boehmer

University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 9 June 2015

16:00 - Humanities and Business
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Donald Drakeman (University of Notre Dame), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Professor Sally Maitlis (Saïd Business School), Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford)
Humanities and Business

Wednesday 23 November 2016

19:00 - Callaloo Conference
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Margo Crawford (Cornell University), Vievee Francis (Dartmouth College), LeRonn Brooks (City University of New York), Dagmawi Woubshet (Cornell University), John Akomfrah, Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths University of London), Nicole King (University of Reading), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University), Robert Reid-Pharr

Tuesday 9 May 2017

19:30 - The Island
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Humanities & Identities

Tuesday 28 November 2017

17:30 - Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society
Bishop Libby Lane (Church of England), Shaista Aziz, Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

13:30 - TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Santanu Das, India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Cambridge, 2018)
Yasmin Khan (Oxford), Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Professor Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 December 2019

17:30 - The Biographer and the Wife
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 March 2020

17:30 - Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Malachi McIntosh

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Tuesday 15 February 2022

17:00 - Postcolonial Criticism today--the state of the art
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)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 18 November 2022

10:30 - Life-Writing Workshops
Dr Kate Kennedy, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2023

17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool), Sarah Jilani (City, University of London), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 2 June 2023

10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop II: Making Things Up
Professor Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)

Saturday 26 October 2024

18:00 - Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Series in Writing

Friday 22 November 2024

10:30 - Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer, and Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Why Life-Writing?'
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops

Tuesday 14 January 2025

17:30 - Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Charne Lavery (University of Pretoria), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Professor Elizabeth Leane (College of Arts, Law and Education), Dr Joanna Price (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 23 January 2025

17:15 - Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: a book conversation
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Chant (Warwick), Dr Archie Davies (QMUL), Dr Emma Parker (Bristol), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

17:15 - Special Roundtable: To celebrate the publication of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire (2025) by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Chaired by Prof Santanu Das
Professors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur), Robert Young, Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

11:30 - ‘Life-writing and the far south: rhythm, disruption, and sensory extremes’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

Events this person is organising:

Monday 6 December 2021

09:00 - Southern Lives Workshop
Various Speakers

Thursday 20 October 2022

17:15 - The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 17 November 2022

17:15 - Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 1 December 2022

17:15 - Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2024

17:15 - Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
Alex Tickell (Open University), Jennifer Wong (independent)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 2 May 2024

17:15 - Autofiction and/as World Literature’
Martha Swift (Oxford)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 16 May 2024

17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024

13:00 - The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
***lunchtime seminar, English Faculty***
Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 13 June 2024

17:15 - How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2024

17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 8 May 2025

17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

17:15 - Emergency as Genre
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

12:30 - POSTPONED: Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Please note that this talk has been postponed and will now take place next year
Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 23 October 2025

Thursday 6 November 2025

15:00 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
TBA
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 20 November 2025

17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
TBA
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar