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Rustom Bharucha starts us off with a rousing talk on decoloniality in theory and practice at the intersections of performance art and public protest. Full house, the Q&A testifying to the calibre and engagement of our scholars Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford Elleke Boehmer Faculty of English Wadham College

Our next seminar is this Wednesday 6th November. Alys Moody (Bard) will be speaking about ‘Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.’ We will meeting in the Okinaga Room in Wadham at 17:15.

Oxford Life-Writing Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford

alys moody delivers a gorgeous, sinuous paper on Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, feminist presses and the dream of syncing nation and world in shared anti-colonial solidarity, and solidarity-splintering hunger. Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford Faculty of English Wadham College

Join us this Thursday 21st Nov in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College at 17:15 for a panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee). See you there!

JM Coetzee’s DISGRACE at 25. A powerful discussion led by Derek Attridge and Urmila Seshagiri on the book’s genesis, its runaway success, and a twenty-first-century reckoning with its politics - and the discomfiture of reading it then and now. With Elleke Boehmer Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford

Join us this week for two very exciting events. The first will be on Wed 27th Nov at 17:15 @ Okinaga Room with Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur). The second is a lunchtime seminar @ English Faculty on Fri 29th Nov at 12:30 with Eugenia Flynn (RMIT University).

Supriya Chaudhuri delivers a rich and intense talk on allegory, dystopia, and literature in our time. From Fred Jameson to Devika Rege, via De Man, Benjamin, Hemchandra Bandipadhyay and other mythologists of the allegory. Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford Faculty of English Wadham College

Counting down to this Wadham alumni event on DECOLONIZING THE ENGLISH LITERARY CURRICULUM, featuring the editors, Ato Quayson and yours truly, contributors William Ghosh and Sloan_Mahone, and Wadham alumna Natalya Din-Kariuki. Weds JANUARY 22. Wadham College Faculty of English wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/wadham-…

Join us on the 22nd January at Wadham for a panel discussion on Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (2023), co-edited by Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson. All welcome! Tickets are free, but please do book a place in advance. wadham.ox.ac.uk/events/wadham-…

Welcome back! Here is our Hilary 2025 term card. We have three events this term in Weeks 1,4, and 7. We hope to see as many of you there, all welcome.

Our first event of term is this Thursday 23rd January at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College. Join us for 'Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: A Book Conversation'.

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford started this term with a panel on LIFE WRITING AND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, edited by Elleke Boehmer and Katie Collins. Superb papers by Emma Parker, Elizabeth Chant, and Archie Davis. Huge congrats to the team for defining and curating this topic so innovatively.

Join us this Thursday 13th Feb @ 17:15 in the Okinaga Room, Wadham to hear Ruvani Ranasinha speak about writing Hanif Kureishi’s biography. All welcome!

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

Join us this Thursday (6th March) for our final event of Hilary Term. Robert Young will be speaking on Frantz Fanon, presenting a paper entitled ‘Fanon Questions’. 17:15, Okinaga Room, Wadham College. All welcome!

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!

Our next event is this Thursday 22nd May at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College. Ayelet Ben-Yishai will be speaking on ‘Emergency as Genre’. All welcome!