On Thursday, February 18, Elleke Boehmer and David Attwell will participate in a discussion, with Prof. Carrol Clarkson of the University of Amsterdam, about their writing, and the influence of J. M. Coetzee on them. Read more
Elleke will be participating in the Oundle Festival of Literature on 29 February 2016. Her talk and reading will explore how we re-tell and interpret history - take a particular angle, look from an alternative viewpoint, or consider oppositions. Elleke will look both at the dominant and recently contentious history of relatively well-known (though poorly understood),...
Elleke will be reading from The Shouting in the Dark at Lancaster University on 14 March 2016, hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Writing & Research. The event will be chaired by Graham Mort. View the poster
Elleke will be interviewed by Nancy Jouwe at this year's Tong Tong Fair about Op de veranda. Buy tickets
Elleke Boehmer, Professor or World Literature in English at Oxford University and biographer of Nelson Mandela, will give the Writers' Centre at Norwich a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shouting in the Dark. This interactive World Literature masterclass is a must for anyone interested in life writing, and will offer practical advice on...
Elleke will be presenting a paper, entitled ‘Eavesdropping or Broadcasting – how to tell stories in the dark,’ at Telling Tales, Writing Stories, an interdisciplinary colloquium at TORCH in Oxford. Find out more and register
Elleke will be presenting a seminar entitled “Migration Impacts” at the House of Commons on 1 November 2016. Migration has been occurring from the Indian sub-continent into the UK for well over a hundred years. How far can our understanding of the impact on our culture help shape our future policy? The event is part...
Elleke will be participating in 'Coetzee's Other Worlds', a one-day workshop exploring the transnational dimensions of J. M. Coetzee’s writing, to be held at Western Sydney University. Details here
Elleke will be giving a reading from The Shouting in the Dark and speaking about 'Living Bilingual' for the Linguamania! event at the Ashmolean Museum on 27 January 2017. More details here
On 31 January 2017, Elleke will give a lecture entitled 'Nelson Mandela: A World Life' at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) as part of the 'Weinrebe Lecture Series: Writing World Lives 2'.