In this talk, Elleke Boehmer explores how we might turn to literature and art to find ways of describing ourselves, and what kinds of art encourage such identification.
Elleke will be in conversation with Diya Gupta and Barbara Gallego Larrarte about her creative writing work at the ‘English: Shared Futures’ conference in Newcastle in July 2017, organised by The English Association, University English (the body for HE Departments of English) and the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), with support from the Institute...
Aminatta Forna, OBE (novelist and memoirist, Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetics at Georgetown University) will be in conversation with Elleke Boehmer in the first event of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series 2017-18 ‘Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation’. In this conversation, award-winning novelist and memoirist Aminatta Forna and Elleke Boehmer will discuss the ways in which Forna’s work...
On Friday 22 September 2017, Elleke Boehmer will give the very first ‘Indische Letterenlezing’ in Leiden. She will be speaking on the future of the postcolonial past.
Elleke Boehmer will participate in the Further South roundtable at the University of Adelaide with Prof. Stephen Muecke, Dr Emma McEwin, Dr Meg Samuelson, and Prof. Anthony Uhlmann, chaired by Prof. Nicholas Jose. Hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Further South Roundtable is an opportunity to follow up issues raised at...
Elleke Boehmer is one of the Festival Guests for the "Space, Resistance, Feminism" BIGSAS African & Diasporic Literature Festival, which is happening in Bayreuth 25–27 June 2018. Elleke will be participating on Day 2 and 3 of the Festival. Find out more
Elleke Boehmer and acclaimed author Ali Smith will be the keynote speakers at the 'Katherine Mansfield: New Directions' international conference, which will take place on 28-29 June 2018 at Birkbeck, University of London. Find out more
Elleke Boehmer will launch her latest book of criticism, Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings, on 29 October 2018 at St John's College Auditorium in Oxford. Terence Cave, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, J. C. Niala and Marina Warner will offer brief comments, chaired by Lloyd Pratt.
Postcolonial Poetics will be featured as the Book at Lunchtime at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) on 30 January 2019. Elleke will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes, the panel will include: Professor Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford) Professor Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford) Professor Richard Drayton (King's College London) Dr Malachi...
Elleke will be at the Perth Writers' Festival on 24 February 2019, promoting the Australian edition of The Shouting in the Dark, and other southern writing. She will talk to Jane Cornes Maclean about the legacies of colonialism and how an individual can find their place in the world. All welcome. Book tickets