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
Elleke Boehmer will give a master class and lecture on "Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy" at the University of Amsterdam in May. This event takes the form of, firstly, a 2-hour masterclass led by Elleke Boehmer, aimed mainly at graduate students, focusing on the issues raised in the introduction and first chapter of Postcolonial...
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.