Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar - Oxford Talks

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

Thursday 17 October 2019

17:15 - Representing Philosophical Selfhood 1911-2014
Please note corrected time - 5.15pm start
Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Thursday 24 October 2019

17:15 - Timothy Mo’s fiction and witnessing injustice
Kelly Tse

Thursday 7 November 2019

17:15 - The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature
Peter Kalliney (University of Kentucky)

Thursday 28 November 2019

17:15 - POSTPONED - Placeless People
Postponed until Trinity Term
Lyndsey Stonebridge

Thursday 5 December 2019

17:15 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
Patience Agbabi

Thursday 30 January 2020

17:15 - The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2020

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

Thursday 27 February 2020

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

Thursday 5 March 2020

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

Thursday 12 March 2020

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

Thursday 11 June 2020

12:30 - A Lunchtime Online Seminar
Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 October 2020

17:00 - Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 November 2020

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

Tuesday 9 February 2021

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

Tuesday 9 March 2021

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)

Tuesday 4 May 2021

17:00 - The Times of Rights and Writing
Lyndsey Stonebridge

Tuesday 11 May 2021

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

Tuesday 1 June 2021

17:00 - "The Form and Function of Disaffection"
Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

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

Tuesday 2 November 2021

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)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

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

Tuesday 30 November 2021

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

Tuesday 18 January 2022

17:00 - ‘Imagining Manila’
Tom Sykes (University of Portsmouth), Ann Ang (Wadham College)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

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)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

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

Tuesday 3 May 2022

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

Thursday 12 May 2022

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

Wednesday 25 May 2022

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)

Thursday 2 June 2022

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

Thursday 16 June 2022

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)

Thursday 20 October 2022

17:15 - The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)

Thursday 3 November 2022

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

Thursday 17 November 2022

17:15 - Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)

Thursday 1 December 2022

17:15 - Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)

Thursday 26 January 2023

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

Thursday 9 February 2023

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

Thursday 23 February 2023

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

Thursday 9 March 2023

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

Thursday 4 May 2023

17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Teju Cole's Poetics of Secrecy and Revelation’
Kai Wiegandt (Said-Barenboim Academy, Berlin)

Thursday 11 May 2023

13:00 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Storytelling and identities in contemporary Namibia’
Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)

Thursday 25 May 2023

17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Victorian World Literature: Asian Classics Translated for the Popular Audience’
Alex Bubb (Roehampton)

Thursday 1 June 2023

Thursday 15 June 2023

17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
Yasmin Akther (RHU)

Thursday 19 October 2023

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

Thursday 2 November 2023

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

Thursday 16 November 2023

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

Thursday 30 November 2023

17:15 - ‘Digital Marechera’
Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2024

17:15 - Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
Alex Tickell (Open University), Jennifer Wong (independent)

Thursday 1 February 2024

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)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

17:15 - ‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’
Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Thursday 22 February 2024

17:15 - Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives: a book discussion
Mohamed-Salah Omri (St John’s, Oxford), Philippe Roussin (CNRS, Paris), Anisa Daoudi (Translation Studies, Birmingham)

Thursday 7 March 2024

17:15 - ‘“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.’
Philip Kaisary (Carleton University, Canada)

Thursday 2 May 2024

17:15 - Autofiction and/as World Literature’
Martha Swift (Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2024

17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)

Thursday 23 May 2024

13:00 - The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
***lunchtime seminar, English Faculty***
Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)

Thursday 13 June 2024

17:15 - How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Thursday 24 October 2024

17:15 - Re-envisioning Interculturality through Decolonial Options: A search for a new Ethics of Performance
Rustom Bharucha (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Kent)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

17:15 - Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 'Nervous Conditions' and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.
Alys Moody (Bard)

Thursday 21 November 2024

17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)

Friday 29 November 2024

12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)

Thursday 5 December 2024

17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Please note that this seminar has been postponed
Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)

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