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 […]
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,
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.
A detailed new review of Indian Arrivals, written by Anshuman A. Mondal, has been published in Volume 19, Issue 5 of Interventions (May 2017). In particular, Mondal praises Boehmer’s ‘extraordinarily
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
Jeffrey N. Cox includes a short synopsis of Indian Arrivals in his article “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century” in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 56/4 (2016). He observes: Boehmer discovers in
Newly published in the Sydney Review of Books: This conversation between Elleke Boehmer and Meg Samuelson began in a book-talk seminar hosted by the Institute for Humanities in Africa at
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.
On Friday 24 February, Elleke Boehmer will read from The Shouting in the Dark as part of an English and Creative Writing Seminar at the University of Adelaide. All are welcome.
In this masterclass, Elleke Boehmer will examine how we conceptualise the relationship between writing and criticism in the works of writers who practice both. Are metaphors such as conversation, exchange