Professor Boehmer will speak about Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), first president of democratic South Africa, as a world life—a national leader whose life also had global dimensions. How did this passionately […]
Elleke will be a plenary speaker at the 27th International FILLM Congress in New Delhi from 15 to 17 March 2017. The theme of the congress is “The Familiar and the
On 2 March 2017, Elleke will participate in the Oxford Union’s Education and Racism Debate, where she will argue for the proposition: This House Believes British Education Perpetuates Racism. The Union’s
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
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
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
A new review for The Shouting in the Dark is in the latest issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (16.2). Writer Melissa de Villiers calls it a “fine coming-of-age
Tabish Khair has written as evocative review of The Shouting in the Dark in the September–November 2016 issue of Biblio: A Review of Books: A haunting evocation of a childhood,
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
With passion, intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South. —J. M. Coetzee