Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford

Welcome back! Join us for an exciting term of events. Note that seminars in Weeks 2,3,4,6 will take place in the Schwarzman Centre. Week 7 seminar will return to the Okinaga Room at Wadham College. We hope to see many of you there!

Join us this Thursday 5th March at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room at Wadham for our final event this term! Julia Hori (Cambridge) will be speaking on the ‘Planter's Pageantry and the Pedagogy of Gardening’. All welcome!

This week’s seminar will take place on Thursday 26th Feb 17:15 in Room 10.424 of the English Faculty at the Schwarzman centre. Caitlin Stobie (Leeds) will be speaking on ‘Collaborative creative practise in South African Fiction’. All welcome!

Join us this Thursday 12th Feb at 17:15 to hear our very own Hannah Fagan speaking on the ‘New Grandaughters of Africa’. Room 10.424 in the English Faculty at The Schwarzman Centre. All welcome!

Join us this Thursday 5th Feb at 12:30 in Room 10.424 in the Schwarzman Centre to hear Rana Dasgupta speak about his recent publication, After Nations. All welcome!

Join us this Thursday 29th January at 17:15 in Room 10.424 of the Schwarzman Centre for our first seminar of the term. William Ghosh will be speaking on Amit Chaudhuri and the Novel. All welcome.

Join us for our last event of term tomorrow at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room at Wadham. Dr Penny Cartwright will be discussing her upcoming book in a talk entitled 'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries'. All welcome!

Join us this Thursday 17:15 in the Okinaga Room to hear Dr Stephanie Volder speaking on ‘Gothic Slavery: Slave Revolt and the Gothic Imagination in British Caribbean Literature, 1789–1834’. All welcome!

Join us next week for Neelam Srivastava’s lecture on Thursday 6th November at 15:00. Please note the time change, we will still meet in the Okinaga Room at Wadham College. Prof Simon Gikandi will deliver his final Clarendon Lecture at 17:30 the same day.

Our first event of the term is this Thursday 23rd Oct. Jarad Zimbler (KCL) will be speaking in the Okinaga Room at Wadham College from 17:15. All welcome, we hope to see many of you there!

Welcome back. We are pleased to reveal our Michaelmas Term card, and hope to see many of you at our events!

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!

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!

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. @ellekeboehmer @PocoSeminarOx

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.

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!

@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. @PocoSeminarOx @engfac @ellekeboehmer

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!

@PocoSeminarOx 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.

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'.