Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

The aim of the seminar is to foster a dynamic and interdisciplinary postcolonial research culture supportive of individual scholarship. Finalists, M.St. and D.Phil. students, lecturers, fellows, scholars from across the university community – all are welcome.
If you’d like to appear on the seminar mailing list, please email ann.ang@wadham.ox.ac.uk OR gavin.herbertson@st-catz.ox.ac.uk
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee, Pablo Mukherjee
Timing: Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8. Thursdays, 5.15pm

Talks:

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

Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu