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The Institute of Art and Ideas recently published an article by Elleke that uses the famous 1972 “blue marble” photograph of earth as its point of departure to discuss the […]

Elleke was in conversation with Lola Frost at the Artvark Gallery in Kalk Bay on 12 March 2026. They explored the overlaps between Southern Imagining and Ice Shock and Frost’s

Elleke was in conversation with Dilip Menon about Southern Imagining for the book’s launch at Love Books in Johannesburg on 10 March 2026. Watch the conversation here

Elleke was recently featured on The History of Literature podcast, where she discussed Southern Imagining with host Jacke Wilson.

Join Professor Elleke Boehmer, who will discuss her two new books, Ice Shock (2026) and Southern Imagining (2026), in conversation with Professor Dame Hermione Lee on 26 May 2026 at

An art/literature conversation, with images, between Elleke Boehmer and Lola Frost at the Artvark Gallery in Kalk Bay, to explore the synergies between Boehmer’s Southern Imagining book and Frost’s At

If you’re in Lisbon on the 20th of February, please join Elleke and the great Alberto Manguel at Gondwana bookshop to talk about all things southern and Elleke’s two new

Elleke will be in conversation with Karina Szczurek about Ice Shock at the Books on the Bay festival in Simon’s Town on 14 March 2026.

In a review for the Johannesburg Review of Books entitled ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’, Barbara Boswell discusses Ice Shock as: [A]