Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford
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News, events, and updates from the Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar at the University of Oxford.
Oxford, England
Joined October 2018
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.
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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!
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: @PocoSeminarOx started this term with a panel on LIFE WRITING AND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, edited by Elleke Boehmer an…
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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'.
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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.
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: Counting down to this Wadham alumni event on DECOLONIZING THE ENGLISH LITERARY CURRICULUM, featuring the editors, Ato…
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: Supriya Chaudhuri delivers a rich and intense talk on allegory, dystopia, and literature in our time. From Fred Jameso…
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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).
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: JM Coetzee’s DISGRACE at 25. A powerful discussion led by Derek Attridge and Urmila Seshagiri on the book’s genesis, i…
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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!
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: @alysmoody delivers a gorgeous, sinuous paper on Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, feminist presses and the dream of s…
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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.
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RT @AnkhiMukherjee9: Rustom Bharucha starts us off with a rousing talk on decoloniality in theory and practice at the intersections of perf…
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Join us this Thursday 24th Oct at 17:15 in the Okinaga Room in Wadham College for our first seminar of the term. Rustom Bharucha will be speaking. All welcome and see you there!
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Hello and welcome back to a new academic year! We have an exciting range of speakers this term. Please see the term card below. Note that in Weeks 4 and 7 seminars will be held on a Wednesday. There is an additional Friday lunchtime seminar in Week 7. All welcome!
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** Change of venue for Thursday's seminar ** For our upcoming event with Madhumita Lahiri on 'How We Hate Now', we will be meeting in Seminar Rooms 4 and 5 at Wadham College (on the main quad) instead of the Okinaga Room. The 5:15 start time is unchanged.
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@mmlahiri ** Change of Venue ** This seminar will now be in Seminar Rooms 4 and 5 at Wadham College (on the main quad) instead of the Okinaga Room.
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A reminder for our next lunchtime seminar on Thursday (23 May) at 1pm in the English Faculty Kaori Nagai (Kent) will present 'The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables' History of the Book Room, St Cross Building
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