Name: Ankhi Mukherjee
Events this person is organising:
Thursday 30 January 2020
The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
Date: 30 January 2020, 17:15 - 18:15
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
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
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
West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
Date: 27 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15
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
Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
Date: 5 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15
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
Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
Date: 12 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15
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
A Lunchtime Online Seminar
Date: 11 June 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
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
Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
Date: 27 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
Date: 10 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 9 February 2021
PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
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
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
Speaker
:
Marijke Denger (Bern)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 May 2021
The Times of Rights and Writing
Date: 4 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 May 2021
“Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
Date: 11 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
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
"The Form and Function of Disaffection"
Date: 1 June 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
Date: 19 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 2 November 2021
‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
Date: 2 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
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
‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
Date: 16 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 November 2021
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
Speaker
:
Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 January 2022
‘Imagining Manila’
Date: 18 January 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
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
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
Tuesday 8 March 2022
‘Forms of Enclosure: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kojo Laing'.
Date: 8 March 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Penny Cartwright (Queen's College)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 May 2022
‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
Date: 3 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
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
"Ishq Vishq, Pyar Vyar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India."
Date: 12 May 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
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
Multilingual Perspectives on the Colonial Novel
Date: 25 May 2022, 16:00 - 19:00
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
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
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
"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
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 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 3 November 2022
‘Decolonising Debates: the case of Nelson Mandela (VSI)’, in discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee
Date: 3 November 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers:
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 19 October 2023
‘The Warwick Research Collective: Conversation and Reflections on World Literature’
Date: 19 October 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
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
‘Broken records: researching Caribbean Women Writers of the mid-twentieth century’
Date: 2 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
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
‘Arcadia in the Tropics: Indigenous Identities and the Palimpsest of Rome’
Date: 16 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
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
‘Digital Marechera’
Date: 30 November 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
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
On the Zimbabwean post-colony post-Mugabe: the politics and poetics of social media comedy
Date: 1 February 2024, 13:00 - 14:00
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
Thursday 7 March 2024
‘“The lost unity of social life”: Law and Literature in the World-System’ This paper begins the theoretical work of developing a materialist and worldly approach to ‘Law and Literature.’
Date: 7 March 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Philip Kaisary (Carleton University, Canada)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
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
Thursday 13 February 2025
Writing the Life of Author and Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi: Race, Class, and Multiculturalism
Date: 13 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Professor Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee,
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 March 2025
Fanon Questions
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Robert Young (New York University)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers:
Pablo Mukherjee,
Ankhi Mukherjee,
Elleke Boehmer
Hosts:
TBA
