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Our final event of the term is this Thursday (March 7)

Philip Kaisary (Carleton University, Canada) will present a talk on ''The lost unity of social life: Law and Literature in the World-System'.

Join us at 5:15pm in the Okinaga Room at Wadham College.

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Next Wednesday, Dionne Brand will deliver the second annual 'Atlantic Slavery & Its Aftermaths' lecture at All Souls (6 March).

The following evening (Thursday, 7 March), she will be reading from her poetry at Trinity College. Book free tickets here: trinity.ox.ac.uk/node/1530

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Our next event is this Thursday (22 Feb).

Mohamed-Salah Omri (Oxford), Philippe Roussin (CNRS, Paris), and Anisa Daoudi (Birmingham) will discuss the book 'Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives'.

5:15 pm in the Okinaga Room at Wadham.

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Nasser Mufti at work and play! A brilliant paper on the curious north-south relationship of the age of Hazlitt and CLR James, and on the semantic proximity of sport and literature in the laboratories of anti-colonial thought. PostcolonialSeminarOx Elleke Boehmer Faculty of English Wadham College

Nasser Mufti at work and play! A brilliant paper on the curious north-south relationship of the age of Hazlitt and CLR James, and on the semantic proximity of sport and literature in the laboratories of anti-colonial thought. @PocoSeminarOx @ellekeboehmer @engfac @wadhamoxford
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We're back this week with another event.

On **WEDNESDAY** (Feb 7) Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois) will present a talk on ‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’.

Join us for 5:15 in the C. Day Lewis Room at Wadham.

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A reminder for our lunchtime seminar (with sandwiches!) this Thursday.

Rodwell Makombe (North-West University & British Academy Visiting Fellow) will present a talk 'On the Zimbabwean post-colony post Mugabe'.

At 1pm in the History of the Book Room in the English Faculty.

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Coming up this Thursday: our first event of Hilary Term.

Alex Tickell (Open University) Alex Tickell and Jennifer Wong Jennifer Wong will present on 'Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry'.

Join us at 5:15pm, 25 Jan in Wadham's Okinaga Room

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Our final event of Michaelmas Term is coming up this Thursday.

Join us for Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu's (St Anne's, Oxford) talk on 'Digital Marechera'.

As usual, we will meet at 5:15pm in the C Day-Lewis Room at Wadham College. See you there!

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Our next event is happening this Thursday (16 November)!

Join us for 'Arcadia in the Tropics: Indigenous Identities and the Palimpsest of Rome' by Professor Stefano Cracolici Stefano Cracolici (Durham)

We will be in our usual spot, the C-Day Lewis Room at Wadham College, at 5:15 pm.

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A reminder for our next event this Thursday, November 2!

We will be joined by Alison Donnell (UEA) Alison Donnell speaking on 'Broken Records: researching Caribbean Women Writers of the mid-twentieth century'.

Join us in the C Day-Lewis Room at Wadham College for 5:15pm.

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***Change of Venue***

The Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar this Thursday, October 19, has moved to the Okinaga room (Wadham) from our usual venue, the C Day-Lewis room. The timing remains the same (5:15pm). All welcome!

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Welcome to a new term and academic year at Oxford!

We are excited to host four seminars this Michaelmas. See our schedule below, and mark the dates in your calendars.

As usual, we'll be meeting every other Thursday evening at 5:15pm in the C Day-Lewis room in Wadham College.

Welcome to a new term and academic year at Oxford! We are excited to host four seminars this Michaelmas. See our schedule below, and mark the dates in your calendars. As usual, we'll be meeting every other Thursday evening at 5:15pm in the C Day-Lewis room in Wadham College.
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Tomorrow (15 June), we'll be finishing the term with a much anticipated talk from Yasmin on 'Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis'.

Join us at Wadham College in Seminar Rooms 4/5. Starting at 5:15pm.

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Our final seminar of term (June 15) is Yasmin Akther (RHUL) on 'Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis'.

We've been looking forward to this one for a long time, so do join us on Thursday at 5:15pm in Seminar Rooms 4/5 at Wadham. An excellent end to the academic year!

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