Name: Ankhi Mukherjee

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
Date: 30 January 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Prison poetics - the poetry of Soyinka and Mapanje
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 13 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Rachel Knighton
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
Date: 27 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
Date: 5 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker s: Ann Ang (Wadham College), Achas Burin (Wadham College)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
Date: 12 March 2020, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker : Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: C Day-Lewis Room
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

A Lunchtime Online Seminar
Date: 11 June 2020, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker s: Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Onlinve via Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
Date: 27 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
Date: 10 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker s: Peter McDonald (Oxford), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Writing Empire Across the Indies: Literature and Colonial Identities in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930
Date: 9 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2021)
Speaker : Marijke Denger (Bern)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

The Times of Rights and Writing
Date: 4 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Lyndsey Stonebridge
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

“Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
Date: 11 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Doro Wiese (Dusseldorf; WIRL research fellow, IAS, University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

"The Form and Function of Disaffection"
Date: 1 June 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2021)
Speaker : Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
Date: 19 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
Date: 2 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker s: Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford), Chelsea Haith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
Date: 16 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC
Date: 30 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: Elleke Boehmer, Ankhi Mukherjee
Hosts: TBA