Name: Professor Elleke Boehmer
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Humanities and Business
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 June 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Organiser:
Dr John Miles (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Callaloo Conference
Date: 23 November 2016, 19:00 - 12:00
Speaker
s:
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
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organiser:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 9 May 2017
The Island
Date: 9 May 2017, 19:30 - 22:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Pegasus Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Bishop Libby Lane (Church of England),
Shaista Aziz,
Professor Jas Elsner (Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 20 November 2019
TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Santanu Das, India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Cambridge, 2018)
Date: 20 November 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: TORCH Seminar Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 2 December 2019
The Biographer and the Wife
Date: 2 December 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford),
Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Haldane Room
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 20 March 2020
Benjamin Zephaniah
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 March 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Benjamin Zephaniah,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Malachi McIntosh
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Wednesday 10 March 2021
Oxford Minds Lecture - Belonging: What the social sciences can learn from the humanities
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom Webinar
Organisers:
Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford),
Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford),
Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Oxford Minds Lecture - Belonging: What the social sciences can learn from the humanities
Date: 10 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom Webinar - registration required
Organisers:
Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford),
Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford),
Dr Susan James Relly (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Postcolonial Criticism today--the state of the art
Date: 15 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
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
Friday 18 November 2022
Life-Writing Workshops
Date: 18 November 2022, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Kate Kennedy,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: White & Case Room,
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 June 2023
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 4/5
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 2 June 2023
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop II: Making Things Up
Date: 2 June 2023, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Hermione Lee,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Saturday 26 October 2024
Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy
Date: 26 October 2024, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford),
Alice Little (Music Faculty)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 22 November 2024
Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer, and Dr Kate Kennedy, 'Why Life-Writing?'
Date: 22 November 2024, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford),
Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford),
Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: English Faculty - History of the Book Room,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/st-cross-building
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere
Date: 14 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium,
Venue Details: Accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college#panel1
Organisers:
Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford),
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Thursday 23 January 2025
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: a book conversation
Date: 23 January 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
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)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee,
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Monday 6 December 2021
Southern Lives Workshop
Date: 6 December 2021, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: (hybrid event with online attendance option, TBA)
Organiser:
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 October 2022
The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
Date: 20 October 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)
Venue Details: Seminar Room K, English Faculty, St Cross Building
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 17 November 2022
Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
Date: 17 November 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers:
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 December 2022
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
Date: 1 December 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers:
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 January 2024
Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
Date: 25 January 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Alex Tickell (Open University),
Jennifer Wong (independent)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 2 May 2024
Autofiction and/as World Literature’
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Martha Swift (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 16 May 2024
Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 May 2024
The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
Date: 23 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 June 2024
How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 21 November 2024
A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Derek Attridge (University of York),
Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 May 2025
World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson),
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 May 2025
Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson),
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 May 2025
Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson),
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 19 June 2025
Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson),
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
