| J. M. Coetzee and Kafka |
Nobel-prize winning author J. M. Coetzee has continued to reflect on and respond to Kafka in different ways throughout his life and work. |
Elleke Boehmer, Karen Leeder |
3 June, 2024 |
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| S2E3: Thinking Futures |
This episode’s discussion with three African writers and cultural practitioners asks how we imagine the future in situations where we may lack resources or feel cut off from opportunities. |
Aleya Kassam, Mako Muzenda, Jonny Steinberg, Elleke Boehmer |
1 February, 2022 |
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| S2E2: Employment as Accelerator |
This episode’s conversation explores the practical ways in which jobs can be created as an intervention for young people on the African continent. |
Lukas Hensel, Kebba-Omar Jagne, Iyeyinka Kusi-Mensah, Elleke Boehmer |
1 February, 2022 |
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| S2E1: Narrative, intervention, motivation |
This episode is a conversation about how storytelling works in empowering ways in in situations of intervention in African contexts. |
Alude Mahali, Robert Muponde, Tamsen Rochat, Elleke Boehmer |
1 February, 2022 |
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| Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Benjamin Zephaniah, Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Wes Williams |
31 August, 2021 |
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| Talking Afropean |
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. |
Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu |
20 November, 2020 |
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| To the Volcano and Other Stories |
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford) |
Wale Adebanwi, Elleke Boehmer |
16 October, 2020 |
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| Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! |
Elleke Boehmer, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Reid, Birhanu T. Gessese, Tsehai Berhane-Selassie |
6 October, 2020 |
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| S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling |
This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence. |
Elleke Boehmer, Oluwafemi Oyebode, Caroline Adjimi, Hermann Wittenberg |
6 February, 2020 |
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| S1E3: Performance and Adolescence |
This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives. |
Elleke Boehmer, Alude Mahali, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kopano Ratele |
6 February, 2020 |
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| S1E1: Violence and Adolescence |
This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond. |
Elleke Boehmer, Diana Walters, Patricia Daley, Heidi Stöckl |
6 February, 2020 |
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| Patience Agbabi reading and conversation: podcast |
In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebellious reworking of Chaucer, and her contribution to the 2016 Refugee Tales project. |
Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner |
14 January, 2020 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019. |
Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter, Elleke Boehmer |
20 November, 2019 |
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| How to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices |
Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. |
Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg, Premilla Nadasen |
18 November, 2019 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. |
Marion Turner, Bart van Es, Helen Swift, John Watts, Elleke Boehmer |
15 November, 2019 |
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| Veteran Poetics |
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 |
Suzan Kalayci, Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das, Elleke Boehmer |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion |
This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion. |
Derek Attridge, Helen Cooper, Cathy Shrank, Stephen Harrison, Mohamed Salah-Omri, Elleke Boehmer |
29 May, 2019 |
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| What is a decolonial curriculum soapbox? |
Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elleke Boehmer |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton and Professor Robert Young (chair). |
Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Ben Morgan, Richard Drayton, Robert Young |
14 February, 2019 |
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| Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism. |
Elleke Boehmer, Kate McLoughlin |
8 December, 2017 |
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| Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society |
Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 |
Libby Lane, Jas' Elsner, Shaista Aziz, Elleke Boehmer |
6 December, 2017 |
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| Conflict and Community: Panel-led Workshop 2 |
Mobilising the wide-ranging expertise of the speakers, this workshop explored questions of narrative, community and the special commemorative needs that arise in the wake of civil war and terrorism. |
Rachel Seiffert, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Harvey Whitehouse, Helen Small, Elleke Boehmer |
24 November, 2017 |
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| Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1 |
Bringing together experts working at the intersection of literature, human rights, foreign policy and peace initiatives, this workshop explored the role of poetry and life-writing in post-war healing. |
Dunya Mikhail, Philippe Sands, Lord John Alderdice, Jeremy Treglown, Elleke Boehmer |
21 November, 2017 |
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| Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer |
Launch event for the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series. Aminatta Forna, OBE (novelist and memoirist, Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetics at Georgetown University) in conversation with Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, Oxford). |
Aminatta Forna, Elleke Boehmer |
20 November, 2017 |
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| M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
25 August, 2017 |
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| Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone |
Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. |
Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer |
25 August, 2017 |
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| Readers and Readings |
Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself. |
Elleke Boehmer, Erica Lombard |
25 August, 2017 |
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| Migration, Memory and Identity |
Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Seminar Series |
Laura van Broekhoven, Elleke Boehmer, Karma Nabulsi, Gayle Lonergan |
7 July, 2017 |
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| Disability Narratives and Histories |
Launch event for the TORCH Disability and Curriculum Diversity series. |
Marie Tidball, Helen Hillman, Richard Sandell, Elleke Boehmer |
4 July, 2017 |
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| Images of Mithra |
Book at Lunchtime discussion |
Dominic Dalglish, Josephine Quinn, Elleke Boehmer, Robert Bracey, Peter Stewart, Richard Gordon |
3 July, 2017 |
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| Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone |
Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series |
Elleke Boehmer, Fatou Wurie |
27 June, 2017 |
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| Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics |
Book at Lunchtime discussion |
Anna Marmodoro, Elleke Boehmer, Naoya Iwata, Simona Aimar |
6 June, 2017 |
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| Volcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature |
A panel discussion |
Elleke Boehmer, Imaobong Umoren, Richard Scholar, Anne Castro, Jemima Paine, Vanessa Lee |
5 June, 2017 |
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| InHabit: People, Places and Possessions |
Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017. |
Antony Buxton, Linda Hulin, Jane Anderson, Cathy Oakes, Oliver Cox, Elleke Boehmer |
10 May, 2017 |
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| Living Bilingual |
Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. |
Elleke Boehmer |
22 February, 2017 |
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| Session 6 |
Sixth session in the Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, held in Oxford in June 2016. |
Elleke Boehmer, Roger Crisp, Ashwini Deshpande, Devaki Jain |
9 August, 2016 |
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| Session 5 |
Fifth session in the Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, held in Oxford in June 2016. |
Elleke Boehmer, Francesca Rhodes, Lloyd Pratt, Tarunabh Khaitan |
9 August, 2016 |
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| Session 4 |
Fourth session in the Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, held in Oxford in June 2016. |
Diane Elson, Elleke Boehmer, Linda McDowell, Roger Crisp |
9 August, 2016 |
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| Session 2 |
Second session in the Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, held in Oxford in June 2016. |
Elleke Boehmer, Roger Crisp, Lloyd Pratt, Ashwini Deshpande |
9 August, 2016 |
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| The Prospect of Global History |
How can global history can be applied instead of advocated? |
James Belich, Elleke Boehmer, Richard Drayton, Hannah-Louise Clark |
27 July, 2016 |
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| Cosmopolitanism and Empire |
Elleke Boehmer considers the cosmopolitan outlooks, experiences and values of Indian travellers to the west in the late 19th century. |
Elleke Boehmer |
5 April, 2016 |
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| Authorship, Politics, Celebrity: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives |
In this roundtable discussion, Caroline Davis, Olivier Driessens, and Peter D McDonald reflect on literature as a mode of public intervention. |
Elleke Boehmer, Caroline Davis, Olivier Driessens, Peter D McDonald |
2 April, 2016 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Arcadia |
A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia |
Elleke Boehmer, Alex Butterworth, Emily Short, Iain Pears, Richard Beard, Sophie Ratcliffe |
7 March, 2016 |
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| Wharton in Wartime |
A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). |
Alice Kelly, Shafquat Towheed, Dame Hermione Lee, Elleke Boehmer |
11 February, 2016 |
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| Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire |
Elleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das |
Elleke Boehmer, Faisal Devji, Megan Robb, Santanu Das, James Belich |
23 November, 2015 |
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| Comparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi |
Part of "Book at Lunchtime", a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Xiaofan Amy Li discusses her new book "Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi." |
Xiofan Amy Li, Elleke Boehmer, Wang Xing, Matthew Reynolds, Marina Warner |
20 November, 2015 |
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| The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy |
60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy. |
Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi, Andy Orchard |
16 November, 2015 |
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| The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy |
60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy |
Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi, Andy Orchard |
9 November, 2015 |
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| The Silk Roads: A New History of the World |
Peter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert Moore and Elleke Boehmer |
Peter Frankopan, Averil Cameron, Robert Moore, Elleke Boehmer |
27 October, 2015 |
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| Narrative and Proof: Two Sides of the Same Equation |
One of the UK's leading scientists, Marcus du Sautoy, argues that mathematical proofs are not just number-based, but also a form of narrative. |
Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose, Laura Marcus, Ben Okri, Elleke Boehmer |
22 January, 2015 |
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| OCCT event - The Point of Comparison |
The Point of Comparison |
Mohamed-Salah Omri, Elleke Boehmer, Ben Morgan, Nicola Gardini, Nick Halmi. |
20 September, 2014 |
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| Intercultural Literary Practices - Theorising Interculturality |
Dr. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht), Prof. Peter McDonald (English), and Prof. Elleke Boehmer (English) |
Birgit Kaiser, Peter McDonald, Elleke Boehmer |
20 September, 2014 |
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| Histories of the Self |
A roundtable discussion with Lynn Hunt (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography), Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History) and Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English). |
Lynn Hunt, Lyndal Roper, Elleke Boehmer |
29 May, 2014 |
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| Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should study Postcolonial writers such as Achebe. |
Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin |
31 July, 2013 |
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| The Village in the Jungle Roundtable |
A discussion of key passages from Leonard (and possibly Virginia) Woolf, led by Hermione Lee (Oxford), Anna Snaith (KCL), Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), David Trotter (Cambridge), Susheila Nasta (OU), Nisha Manocha (Wolfson). |
Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, David Trotter, Susheila Nasta, Nisha Manocha |
24 June, 2013 |
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| 'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion |
This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. |
Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, Nisha Manocha, David Trotter, Susheila Nasta |
18 June, 2013 |
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| Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century |
Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren talk about their research network which is investigating how twentieth-century activists, artists and intellectuals challenged racially oppressive hierarchies and sought to achieve equality. |
Elleke Boehmer, Imaobong Umoren |
24 May, 2013 |
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| Kipling, the Elton John of his age? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire. |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
8 October, 2012 |
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| Postcolonial Women Writers |
Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page of the Great Writers website, and explores why this is the case. |
Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
8 October, 2012 |
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| Olive Schreiner |
Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist. |
Elleke Boehmer |
7 February, 2012 |
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| Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub |
Professor Elleke Boehmer (Oxford) - 'Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub'. |
Elleke Boehmer |
2 March, 2010 |
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| Literature and State Censorship: A literary perspective |
Peter McDonald and Elleke Bohemer discuss state censorship from a literary perspective; also discussing the issues of nationalism, modernism and Apartheid. |
Peter McDonald, Elleke Boehmer |
17 November, 2009 |
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| Introduction to Indian Literature in translation |
Professor Boehmer gives a short talk on her current research on Indian Literature in English, looking at the Post-Colonial world of literature and gives an introduction to studying World Literature in the Humanities Division. |
Elleke Boehmer |
30 April, 2009 |
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