Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
  Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Prison poetics - the poetry of Soyinka and Mapanje
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rachel Knighton
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
  Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
  Ann Ang (Wadham College), Achas Burin (Wadham College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - A Lunchtime Online Seminar
  Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
  Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
  Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
  Peter McDonald (Oxford), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Writing Empire Across the Indies: Literature and Colonial Identities in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930
  Marijke Denger (Bern)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Times of Rights and Writing
  Lyndsey Stonebridge
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
  Doro Wiese (Dusseldorf; WIRL research fellow, IAS, University of Warwick)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "The Form and Function of Disaffection"
  Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
  Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
  Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford), Chelsea Haith (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - POSTPONED - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Imagining Manila’
  Tom Sykes (University of Portsmouth), Ann Ang (Wadham College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Forms of Enclosure: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Kojo Laing'.
  Penny Cartwright (Queen's College)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
  Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - "Ishq Vishq, Pyar Vyar: Reading with a loving eye in the new India."
  Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Multilingual Perspectives on the Colonial Novel
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Marijke Denger (Bern), Richard Drayton (KCL), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Rick Honings (Leiden), Coen van ’t Veer (Leiden)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - POSTPONED: “Listening Through Walls: Towards an Aural Feminist Poetics of Asylum”
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anna Ball (NTU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - "I'm-possible": The Singlish Poetics of parsetreeforestfire by Hamid Roslan” & “Continuity over Rupture: Rewriting Caribbean Literary History"
  Ann Ang (Wadham College), Gavin Herbertson (St Catz)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Decolonising Debates: the case of Nelson Mandela (VSI)’, in discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: 'Restless Acoustics: Sonic Politics and Vocal Dissonance in the Soundscapes of Asylum-Seeker Detention'
  Anna Ball (NTU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
  Yasmin Akhtar (RHUL)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Expanding English literature in Africa: Exploring publisher James Currey’s Contribution’
  Onyeka Nwelue (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
  Alex Tadié (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘The Warwick Research Collective: Conversation and Reflections on World Literature’
  Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin), Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Broken records: researching Caribbean Women Writers of the mid-twentieth century’
  Professor Alison Donnell (University of East Anglia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Arcadia in the Tropics: Indigenous Identities and the Palimpsest of Rome’
  Stefano Cracolici (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Digital Marechera’
  Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - On the Zimbabwean post-colony post-Mugabe: the politics and poetics of social media comedy
  Rodwell Makombe (North West University, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar