• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Elleke Boehmer , Ankhi Mukherjee
• Timing: Weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. Thursdays, 5.15pm (Week 4 at 5pm)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Representing Philosophical Selfhood 1911-2014
  Please note corrected time - 5.15pm start
  Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Timothy Mo’s fiction and witnessing injustice
  Kelly Tse

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature
  Peter Kalliney (University of Kentucky)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - POSTPONED - Placeless People
  Postponed until Trinity Term
  Lyndsey Stonebridge

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
  Patience Agbabi

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

• 17:15 - The Visibility of the Writer as Prisoner
  Dr Michelle Kelly (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:15 - Prison poetics - the poetry of Soyinka and Mapanje
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rachel Knighton

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

• 17:15 - West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
  Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)

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

• 17:15 - Presentation by Teacher Alexandra Brown on critical pedagogy and the classroom
  Ann Ang (Wadham College), Achas Burin (Wadham College)

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

• 17:15 - Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)

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

• 12:30 - A Lunchtime Online Seminar
  Bhagya Casaba-Somashekar (University of Oxford), Tom McLean (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, a Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
  Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Literary Activism in Contemporary Africa: Notes on Form and Social Production
  Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol)

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

• 17:00 - PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial/Postcolonial/World
  Peter McDonald (Oxford), Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS, Paris)

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

• 17:00 - Writing Empire Across the Indies: Literature and Colonial Identities in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930
  Marijke Denger (Bern)

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

• 17:00 - The Times of Rights and Writing
  Lyndsey Stonebridge

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

• 17:00 - “Reading Indigeneity across Cultures and Epistemologies: Problems, Methods, Solutions”
  Doro Wiese (Dusseldorf; WIRL research fellow, IAS, University of Warwick)

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

• 17:00 - "The Form and Function of Disaffection"
  Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College, CUNY)

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

• 17:00 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - ‘The politics of extinction in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion’
  Filippo Menozzi (Liverpool John Moores)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Acts of Resistance: Writing Reproductive Dystopia’ and ‘States of exception and narrative humanity in detention narratives’
  Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford), Chelsea Haith (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - ‘Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature’
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar - Title TBC
  Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)