Elleke is at the 2019 ACLALS conference in Auckland, where she will give a keynote address and launch her new book of short stories, To The Volcano. The keynote, entitled "On Decolonization: the radical power of literary thinking", will take place at 9am on Tuesday, 16 July 2019, with the book launch following over lunch the...
Elleke will launch her new book of short stories, To the Volcano and Other Stories, with Myriad Editions in London on 3 October 2019. Pre-publication copies will be available for signing by the author. All are warmly invited.
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing will host a wine reception to celebrate To the Volcano on 2 December at Wolfson College, Oxford. All are warmly invited.
Elleke's short stories will be featured in the 14 January 2020 edition of Blackwell's Short Stories Aloud - The most fun you can have in a bookshop on a Tuesday night. Listen to actors read short stories read by our guest authors. This month we are joined by Julie Mayhew, author of 'Impossible Causes', and...
The Cape Town launch of To the Volcano and Other Stories will take place at the Book Lounge on 25 February 2020. Elleke will be in conversation with Dr Barbara Boswell. Please RSVP to booklounge@gmail.com.
The Stellenbosch launch of To the Volcano and Other Stories will take place at the Protea Boekwinkel on 4 March 2020. Elleke will be in conversation with Dr Wamuwi Mbao. Please RSVP to akruger@proteaboekwinkel.com.
On 13 March, Elleke will be participating in Blown Away by Books 2020, the festival organised by the Friends of Fish Hoek Library. Wordsworth Books from Longbeach Mall will be selling books. Find out more about the festival.
Oxford's African Studies Centre Seminar will be held online this term, at 3:30 pm on Thursdays. All are welcome. For our first seminar on Thursday, October 15, at 3:30 pm, we will be hosting Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford). Professor Boehmer will be speaking about her book,...
In this public online event, acclaimed authors Petina Gappah and Elleke Boehmer engage in a dialogue around the theme 'the politics of the past', with a special focus on Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. Drawing on their professional, personal and literary perspectives, they will address questions related to the role played by various versions of the past in diverse political discourses and projects. In addition to their reflections and conversations,...
On 13 September 2021, Elleke will read from To the Volcano and be in conversation with Kai Wiegandt at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. The reading will be accompanied by musical performances featuring students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie. Read more and buy tickets