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This week we welcome Ruvani Ranasinha, speaking on her acclaimed biography of Hanif Kureishi. ALL WELCOME! Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford Elleke Boehmer Faculty of English Wadham College

RuvaniRanasinha speaks eloquently on her biography, which is also the biography of modern, multicultural Britain, focalised through the life and lens of the inimitable Hanif Kureishi. Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford Faculty of English Elleke Boehmer

‘Reading this recovered text helps us to illuminate the creative process behind works of art, but also to restore valuable parts of the world’s cultural heritage’: read full article at doi.org/10.1093/res/hg… St Catz, Oxford Faculty of English

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications from postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Learn more: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Our Trinity Term events are here! All are welcome. Our first seminar is next Thursday 1st May at 17:15 (Week 1) in the Okinaga Room at Wadham College.

Looking forward very much to this conversation with Lisa Appignanesi. Please register in advance, tickets are free! eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversat…

Bruce Robbins on his new book, ATROCITY: A LITERARY HISTORY. A maverick bringing together of antiquity and modernity around spectacles of mass violence against non-combatants - and the changing reckonings and definitions of the same. Elleke Boehmer Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford

Our next event is this Thursday 8th May at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College. Janet Wilson will be speaking about ‘Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?’ We hope to see many of you there!

Happy Birthday, Sigmund Freud 🎂 Today marks the birthday of Freud, remembered as the founder of psychoanalysis. To celebrate Freud, we’re sharing resources from our archives and beyond that shed a new light on the life and work of Freud. bpc.org.uk/happy-birthday…

Don’t miss the vibrant Oxford Medical Humanities booth at the Weston Library today, we have been shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Culture Award. TORCH Oxford hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancello…

Should beauty be at the forefront of our values, and if so, what would this mean for the way we make judgments and run our lives? | iai.tv/video/the-good… Join Babette Babich, Ankhi Mukherjee, Paul Ernest, and Sarah Wilson for a fascinating debate on the good, the bad, and

A celebration of scholarship and camaraderie at the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards yesterday. The TORCH Medical Humanities Research Hub Oxford Medical Humanities led by the dynamic and inspiring Erica Charters, went home with the Research Culture Award. TORCH Oxford

We're thrilled to announce that we've won the 2025 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Culture! 🎉 The award recognises our commitment to collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation across disciplines torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medica…

“This is not just my victory, but a chorus of voices often left unheard. A thousand fireflies lighting a single sky, brief, brilliant and utterly collective.” ~ Banu Mushtaq in her acceptance speech. #InternationalBooker2025 #internationalbooker

Lisa Appignanesi and I talked memoir: remembering and unremembering; the psychic properties of space (geography, landscape, back garden); and experiencing time through space. We spoke of “madness,” ordinary and diagnosed, and how, for us both, literature was the transversal line

A short and sharp conference, “Canon and Canonicity,” organised by Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social and others at Cambridge. The format - reading short papers beforehand - allowed us to engage with various debates, perspectives, and prognostications attentively. We ended with tributes to Ngugi.

Spivak, sassy, funny, profound, and sibylline in her Holberg week talks and especially the acceptance speech today. It was deeply moving to see her ushered in with fanfare by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. বাংলার মেয়ে winning a Nobel equivalent! The Holberg Prize