Name: Ankhi Mukherjee
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 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
Date: 20 October 2022, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
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 (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 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
Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
‘“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 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
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
