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Voice of IslamBreakfast Show Podcast 18-07-2025 Nelson Mandela Day/Economic progress depends on peaceTopic I: Nelson Mandela International Day.
Guests:
Professor Elleke Boehmer
Imam Anas Mahmood
Topic II: Economic progress depends on peace.
Guests:
Professor Simon Dalby
Professor Mehmet Asutay
Producer(s): Bareera Mansoor & Maleeha Abdullah
Lead Producer: Nergis Nasir
Researchers: Haala Naseer, Henna Ahmed, Dania Daud and Basma Latif
Presenter: Talat Syam Sahib and Hafiz Shahzaib Nayyar Sahib.2025-07-181h 53
PAGECASTPagecast takes Franschhoek Literary Festival 2025: “Across Borders, Between Lines: Fiction from Everywhere”Pagecast along with a host of book people take a seat in the vibrant courtyard of Smitten Cafe surrounded by a soirée of literary buzz. Maryam Adams engages in a compelling conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Mary Watson, exploring their latest works of fiction, the diverse settings that inspire their narratives, and the audiences they envision while writer.2025-05-1614 min
Voice of IslamDrive Time Show Podcast 06-03-2025: World Book Day and Video Games leading to children gamblingJoin Faheem Nasir, Usman Ali Anjum, Qamar Zafar and Zaafar Ahmad for Thursday’s show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘World Book Day' and 'Video Games leading to children gambling'.
World Book Day
Join us as we celebrate World Book Day and delve into the intriguing history of how books came about. We will discuss the origins of written language, the evolution of books through the centuries, and explore whether reading remains a cherished activity in today's digital age.
Video Games leading to children gambling
Video games may seem like harmless fun, but many of them now incl...2025-03-061h 48
Don’t Miss This Thrilling Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) by Elleke BoehmerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765272to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition)
Author: Elleke Boehmer
Narrator: Zoleka Vundla
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Release date: May 28, 2024
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and...2024-05-286h 14Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsNelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) by Elleke BoehmerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765272to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition)
Author: Elleke Boehmer
Narrator: Zoleka Vundla
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Release date: May 28, 2024
Genres: Law & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and...2024-05-286h 14
Explore the Latest Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsNelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) by Elleke BoehmerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) Author: Elleke Boehmer Narrator: Zoleka Vundla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa...2024-05-2830 min
New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureNelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) by Elleke BoehmerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition) Author: Elleke Boehmer Narrator: Zoleka Vundla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa...2024-05-2830 min
De Postkoloniale PodcastDe postkoloniale podcast #13 - Marijke Denger en Elleke BoehmerHet kolonialisme was niet uniek voor Nederland. Ook andere Europese landen koloniseerden gebieden buiten Europa. Dat leverde Franse, Duitse, Spaanse, Portugese, Italiaanse en Deense, maar vooral veel Engelstalige, koloniale literatuur op.
In De postkoloniale podcast gaan Rick Honings, Scaliger-hoogleraar, en Coen van ’t Veer, docent-onderzoeker, van de Universiteit Leiden in gesprek met prominente onderzoekers en schrijvers over hun werk in relatie tot het koloniale verleden. In de dertiende aflevering staan de internationale perspectieven op (post)koloniale literatuur centraal. Veel van de theoretische inzichten over koloniale en postkoloniale literatuur stammen uit de Angelsaksische wereld.2024-02-2338 min
The Very Short Introductions PodcastNelson Mandela - The Very Short Introductions PodcastIn this episode, Elleke Boehmer introduces the world-renowned figure of Nelson Mandela and looks critically at his legacy.
A PDF transcript for this episode can be found here: https://oxfordacademic.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/VSI-Ep-74-Nelson-Mandela-transcript.pdf
Learn more about Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nelson-mandela-a-very-short-introduction-9780192803016
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World English at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal...2023-11-0211 min
Die Buch. Der feministische BuchpodcastWie ein Buch die Geschichte Sierra Leones neu erzählt - “The Devil that Danced on the Water” von Aminatta Forna
Wie sind wir so weit gekommen? Diese Frage stellen sich viele Menschen nach dem Ende des Bürgerkriegs in Sierra Leone. 2002 erscheint Aminatta Fornas Buch und bietet damit eine neue Version der Geschichte ihres Landes.
Es ist 1975. Die 10-jährige Aminatta lebt mit ihrer Familie in Sierra Leone. Eines Tages wird ihr Vater, ehemaliger Arzt und Politiker, von zwei unbekannten Männern abgeholt und kehrt nie wieder nach Hause zurück. 25 Jahre später beginnt Aminatta, mittlerweile Juristin, Journalistin und Autorin, ihre Recherche: Sie will herausfinden, was mit ihrem Vater passiert ist und wer für sein...2022-02-1635 min
Get Hooked On The Most Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook Today!An Island by Karen JenningsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543794to listen full audiobooks.
Title: An Island
Author: Karen Jennings
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: October 14, 2021
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude… A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the ma...2021-10-145h 25
Step Inside This Riveting Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.An Island by Karen JenningsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543795to listen full audiobooks.
Title: An Island
Author: Karen Jennings
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: October 14, 2021
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude… An intense and powerful novel about guilt and fear, friendship and rejection; about the meaning of home. “A gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.” ELLEKE BOEHMER “...a moving, transfixing novel of loss, political upheaval, history, identity, all rendered in majes...2021-10-145h 25Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionAn Island by Karen JenningsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543794to listen full audiobooks.
Title: An Island
Author: Karen Jennings
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: October 14, 2021
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude… A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the ma...2021-10-145h 25Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary FictionAn Island by Karen JenningsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/543795to listen full audiobooks.
Title: An Island
Author: Karen Jennings
Narrator: Ben Onwukwe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Release date: October 14, 2021
Genres: Literary Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude… An intense and powerful novel about guilt and fear, friendship and rejection; about the meaning of home. “A gripping, terrifying and unforgettable story.” ELLEKE BOEHMER “...a moving, transfixing novel of loss, political upheaval, history, identity, all rendered in majes...2021-10-145h 25
Writing Lives: Biography and BeyondDevaki Jain & Gloria Steinem: Writing a Radical LifeNoted feminist economist Devaki Jain talks about writing her memoir, The Brass Notebook (2020), with her long-term friend, Gloria Steinem. They are hosted by Katherine Collins and Elleke Boehmer. Together, they discuss Jain and Steinem’s friendship (which spans many years as fellow activists), telling their mothers’ stories, and women becoming more radical as they get older.
Content warning: brief discussion of sexual assault.
Keywords: feminism, economics, India, motherhood, family history, activism, feminist economics.
Find out more about:
Devaki Jain:
Book: The Brass Notebook: A Memoir (2020)
Profile: ‘First Women at Oxford’
Gloria...2021-10-0841 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesArt and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in ConversationPart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. In his autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), award-winning poet, lyricist, musician, and activist Benjamin Zephaniah speaks out candidly about the writer’s responsibility to step outside the medium of literature and engage in political activism: “You can’t just be a poet or writer and say your activism is simply writing about these things; you have to do something as well, especially if your public profile can be put to good use.” In conversation with Elleke Boehmer...2021-08-311h 08TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesArt and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in ConversationPart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. In his autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), award-winning poet, lyricist, musician, and activist Benjamin Zephaniah speaks out candidly about the writer’s responsibility to step outside the medium of literature and engage in political activism: “You can’t just be a poet or writer and say your activism is simply writing about these things; you have to do something as well, especially if your public profile can be put to good use.” In conversation with Elleke Boehmer...2021-08-311h 08
Religion and Global ChallengesRevolutionary afterlives, promiscuous martyrs, and India’s haunted present – Dr Chris MoffatIn this third and last episode of our mini-series on the politics of martyrdom, we talk to historian Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University London) about the manifold afterlives of the early-twentieth-century Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Our conversation explores the political potency of self-sacrifice, interrogates the difficulty to stabilize the meaning of martyrdom, and reflects on the politics of commemoration in contemporary India. Music: Plaster Combo by Blue Dot Sessions; Punjab Shuffle by The Polish AmbassadorBioChris Moffat is Lecturer in South Asian History at Queen Mary University of London. In 2019 he...2021-08-2638 min
Writing Lives: Biography and BeyondTrailerA first look at the new podcast series by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Co-hosts Kate Kennedy and Katherine Collins introduce themselves and the podcast, indicating what listeners can expect to hear: interesting discussions with noted writers, biographers, and academics. Hermione Lee and Elleke Boehmer describe what we mean by life-writing as well as its importance as a vital cultural practice.
Find out more about OCLW: www.oclw.ox.ac.uk @OxLifeWriting.2021-04-2302 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTalking AfropeanTalking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion features the author Johny Pitts in conversation about his ground-breaking travelogue Afropean, his 2019 notes on a journey around contemporary Black Europe.
Johny Pitts will explore together with Oxford academics Simukai Chigudu and Elleke Boehmer questions of black history, hidden archives...2020-11-201h 02TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesTalking AfropeanTalking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion features the author Johny Pitts in conversation about his ground-breaking travelogue Afropean, his 2019 notes on a journey around contemporary Black Europe.
Johny Pitts will explore together with Oxford academics Simukai Chigudu and Elleke Boehmer questions of black history, hidden archives...2020-11-201h 02
African Studies CentreTo the Volcano and Other StoriesElleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)2020-10-1640 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLive Event: In Conversation with Maaza MengisteTORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
In conversation with Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King.
This event is also part of the North-east Africa Forum at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
Hosted by Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English (English Faculty, University of Oxford). Professor Boehmer is currently the Director for the Oxford Centre for Life Writing (OCLW) based at Wolfson College, and...2020-10-061h 01
Let Your Imagination Run Wild With Our Captivating Free AudiobookBelow Deck Audiobook by Sophie HardcastleListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 430684
Title: Below Deck
Author: Sophie Hardcastle
Narrator: Jessica Tovey
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Length: 6:55:32
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-20
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women
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When 21-year-old Oli sets sail from Australia she embarks on a trip that will open her eyes to life's possibilities. Some years later, fluent in the language of the ocean, she is the only female crew member on-board a yacht delivery to New Zealand. There, in the darkness below deck, she learns something new: at sea, no one can hear...2020-06-056h 55
Get Lost In A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Powerful.Below Deck by Sophie HardcastlePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430684to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Below Deck
Author: Sophie Hardcastle
Narrator: Jessica Tovey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Release date: June 4, 2020
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
When 21-year-old Oli sets sail from Australia she embarks on a trip that will open her eyes to life's possibilities. Some years later, fluent in the language of the ocean, she is the only female crew member on-board a yacht delivery to New Zealand. There, in the darkness below deck, she learns something new: at sea, no one can hear you scream. Below Deck is about the...2020-06-046h 55Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenBelow Deck by Sophie HardcastlePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430684to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Below Deck
Author: Sophie Hardcastle
Narrator: Jessica Tovey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Release date: June 4, 2020
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
When 21-year-old Oli sets sail from Australia she embarks on a trip that will open her eyes to life's possibilities. Some years later, fluent in the language of the ocean, she is the only female crew member on-board a yacht delivery to New Zealand. There, in the darkness below deck, she learns something new: at sea, no one can hear you scream. Below Deck is about the...2020-06-046h 55
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenBelow Deck by Sophie HardcastlePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Below Deck Author: Sophie Hardcastle Narrator: Jessica Tovey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 4, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When 21-year-old Oli sets sail from Australia she embarks on a trip that will open her eyes to life's possibilities. Some years later, fluent in the language of the ocean, she is the only female crew member on-board a yacht delivery to New Zealand. There, in the darkness below deck, she learns something new: at sea, no one can hear you scream. Below Deck is about...2020-06-0403 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesPatience Agbabi reading and conversation: podcastIn 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. After reading from both works Agbabi discusses with Professor Elleke Boehmer, Director of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, and medievalist Professor Marion Turner, the key themes that animate her work: her efforts to give voice to the marginalised, the influence of Chaucer upon her writing and practice, and her interests in grime music as well as poetic form, not least the sonnet. The recording was made on 5...2020-01-1457 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesSupriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South AsiaChaired by Elleke Boehmer.2019-11-1854 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesHow to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practicesEduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.2019-11-1851 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European LifeTORCH 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. More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life-yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his...2019-11-151h 02TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesWhat 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 2018.2019-02-1901 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesPostcolonial Poetics: A Book at LunchtimeA 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). Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from various 21st-century contexts, including southern and West Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where reading is taken as an in...2019-02-1452 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesReading Beyond the CodeA Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director). Is language a simple code, or is meaning conveyed as much by context, history, and speaker as by the arrangement of words and letters?
Relevance theory, described by Alastair Fowler in the LRB as 'nothing less than the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle's', takes the latter view and offers a comprehensive understanding of language and communication grounded in evidence about the ways humans think and behave.
...2018-12-1438 min
The Literature CornerLiterature Corner: Book Review with Andrea van WykJournalist and bookworm Andrea van Wyk reviewed Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark, Paul Crilley’s Clockwork City and Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2018-04-1924 min
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, ReconciliationElleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlinElleke 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.2017-12-0817 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesMe and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and SocietyMe and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 Bishop Libby Lane is Britain’s first woman bishop in the Church of England. In this talk - Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society - Bishop Libby explores the pathway that brought her to this position and addresses an area of identity not always covered in diversity debates. A panel of prominent speakers joins her in discussing what it means to be a person of faith in Britain today and impacts on diversity.
On the panel:
Jas' Elsner (Professor of Late Antique Art, Faculty of Class...2017-12-0658 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesMe and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and SocietyMe and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 Bishop Libby Lane is Britain’s first woman bishop in the Church of England. In this talk - Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society - Bishop Libby explores the pathway that brought her to this position and addresses an area of identity not always covered in diversity debates. A panel of prominent speakers joins her in discussing what it means to be a person of faith in Britain today and impacts on diversity.
On the panel:
Jas' Elsner (Professor of Late Antique Art, Faculty of Class...2017-12-0658 min
Great Writers Inspire at HomeM. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of historyM. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. In discussion with Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Marina Warner offers a response that emphasises the transformative power of story, and Matthew Reynolds discusses Philip’s linguistic innovations.2017-08-251h 41Great Writers Inspire at HomeM. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of historyM. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. In discussion with Prof. Elleke Boehmer, Prof. Marina Warner offers a response that emphasises the transformative power of story, and Matthew Reynolds discusses Philip’s linguistic innovations.2017-08-251h 41Great Writers Inspire at HomeKamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every StoneAuthor Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.2017-08-2559 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeKamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every StoneAuthor Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience. She speaks about the inspiration for the novel, who she writes for, and how she transforms historical facts into compelling narrative.2017-08-2559 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeReaders and ReadingsProf. 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.2017-08-2551 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeReaders and ReadingsProf. 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.2017-08-2551 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLiving BilingualProfessor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.2017-02-2214 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Prospect of Global HistoryHow can global history can be applied instead of advocated? The new volume The Prospect of Global History examines this question and explores the fast growing field of global history across a wide geographical and chronological range. One of the book's editors, James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Oxford) discusses this along with TORCH Director Professor Elleke Boehmer, Richard Drayton (Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London), and Hannah-Louise Clark (Departmental Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford).2016-07-2748 min
Asian Studies CentreOn the Colonisation of India: Public Meetings, Debates and Disputes (Calcutta 1829)Professor Chaudhuri speaks at the South Asia Seminar on a public meeting held in Calcutta, on December 15th, 1829. On December 15th , 1829, a large public meeting was held amidst much excitement at the Town Hall in Calcutta. The speakers, principally from the British mercantile community in Calcutta, but including, prominently, Dwarakanath Tagore and Rammohun Roy, spoke on behalf of a petition to be sent to the English Parliament arguing for what they called "The Colonization of India". The debate centred on the upcoming renewal of the Charter Act, and this community pressed for further abolishing remaining monopolies the East India Company...2016-06-161h 01
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of LettersCosmopolitanism and EmpireElleke Boehmer considers the cosmopolitan outlooks, experiences and values of Indian travellers to the west in the late 19th century. In the late 19th c a set of remarkable Indian ‘arrivants’ – scholars, poets, religious seekers, and political activists – began, as novelist Amitav Ghosh describes it, 'travelling in the west'. They included Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. In this paper I examine how their travel to and presence on British shores and involvement with various Britons had a shaping effect on how cosmopolitan life in the imperial capital was conceived, and, therefore, on how intercultural hospitality was expr...2016-04-0516 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesWharton in WartimeA 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). Panellists; Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford), Dr Shafquat Towheed (Open University), Dr Alice Kelly (TORCH, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director, TORCH).2016-02-111h 05TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesIndian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British EmpireElleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford) discusses her new book with Megan Robb (Lecturer of Hindi and Urdu, Oriental Institute, and Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford), Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford) and Santanu Das (Reader of English Literature, Kings College London). The discussion is introduced and chaired by Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Oxford).
Elleke Boehmer's book "Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British...2015-11-2343 min
Tolkien at OxfordThe Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian Libraries and TORCH hosted a panel discussion on reactions to Tolkien’s work, then and now. The discussion was introduced by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), and chaired by Stuart Lee (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford). In a series of three short talks, scholars considered Tolkien's legacy from a range of p...2015-11-1640 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian Libraries and TORCH hosted a panel discussion on reactions to Tolkien’s work, then and now.
The discussion was introduced by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), and chaired by Stuart Lee (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford). In a series of three short talks, scholars considered Tolkien's legacy from a range of p...2015-11-0940 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian Libraries and TORCH hosted a panel discussion on reactions to Tolkien’s work, then and now.
The discussion was introduced by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), and chaired by Stuart Lee (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford). In a series of three short talks, scholars considered Tolkien's legacy from a range of p...2015-11-0959 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldPeter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert Moore and Elleke Boehmer Peter Frankopan (Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, University of Oxford) discusses his book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World with Averil Cameron (Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, University of Oxford) and Robert Moore (Emeritus Professor of History, Newcastle University). The discussion is introduced and chaired by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, English)
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Peter Frankopan's book is a major reassessment of world history, and is an important account of the...2015-10-2758 min
The Human ZooThe Improvising MindThe Human Zoo is the programme that looks at current events through the lens of psychology. From scandals to markets, elections to traffic jams, discover the nuts and bolts of human behaviour that link public life to our most private thoughts and motivations. Are people led by the head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we perceive the world? The programme blends intriguing experiments that reveal our biases and judgements, explorations and examples taken from what's in the news and what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a large...2015-06-3027 min
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)Intercultural Literary Practices - Theorising InterculturalityDr. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht), Prof. Peter McDonald (English), and Prof. Elleke Boehmer (English) Here are the examples which Peter McDonald is referring to in the recording:
J. Hillis Miller, ‘The University of Dissensus’, Oxford Literary Review, 17:1-2 (1995), pp.-126-27
Xu Bing, ‘Nursery Rhymes 5’, 1994
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller (1991/2008), p. 4
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Songs of Kabir (2011), pp. 78-9
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939), p. 203
Alison Flood and Richard Adams, ‘American accent is removed from GCSE syllabus as British literature gets a leg-up’, The Guardian, 30 May 2014, p. 32014-09-201h 26
World War OneFree Thinking - The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August and September 1915 and depicts Europe on the edge of war in May and June 1914. It quickly became popular reading in the trenches and on the home front, and 100 years and three film adaptations later, its popularity is enduring.
Matthew Sweet talks to biographer Andrew Lownie and scholars Dr Michael Redley and Dr Kate Macdonald about the connections between Buchan's own war experience and The 39 Steps, and to Professors Elleke Boehmer and Terence Ranger about how ideas about empire and adventure play out in the novel.2014-07-0244 min
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and CambridgeHistories of the SelfA 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).2014-05-2946 min
Sage EducationJCL - Village in the Jungle podcastElleke Boehmer, Dominique Davies, Charne Lavery and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay discuss a special issue, due to publish in March 2015 and guest-edited by Elleke Boehmer, on Leonard Woolf’s novel “The Village in the Jungle”. Posted May 2014.2014-05-1534 min
SAGE MASTER LISTJCL - Village in the Jungle podcastElleke Boehmer, Dominique Davies, Charne Lavery and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay discuss a special issue, due to publish in March 2015 and guest-edited by Elleke Boehmer, on Leonard Woolf’s novel “The Village in the Jungle”. Posted May 2014.2014-05-1534 min
Sage EducationJCL - Village in the Jungle podcastElleke Boehmer, Dominique Davies, Charne Lavery and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay discuss a special issue, due to publish in March 2015 and guest-edited by Elleke Boehmer, on Leonard Woolf’s novel “The Village in the Jungle”. Posted May 2014.2014-05-1534 min
Challenging the CanonWhy 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.2013-07-3113 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesRace and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth CenturyElleke 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 and Imaobong Umoren explore the ways in which these activists understood their lives and their acts of resistance to racially oppressive hierarchies within a global context.2013-05-2406 min
Interviews on Great WritersKipling, 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. By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul McCartney, she offers insight into how Kipling's verse captured the popular imagination of the common people throughout the age of imperialism.2012-10-0810 minInterviews on Great WritersPostcolonial Women WritersProfessor 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. She draws attention to the phenomenon of double colonization and, taking Scottish/South African author Zoe Wicomb as an example, looks at the marketing and publishing industries to discuss why postcolonial women writers are less well-known than their male counterparts.2012-10-0819 min
Great Writers InspireOlive SchreinerProfessor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist. For Boehmer, Schreiner is not 'great' in the conventional sense (she did not possess the great literary brain of George Eliot, for example), but she is a great inspiration in many spheres: she influenced other writers (fellow South African J.M. Coetzee, in particular); other critical thinkers and activists (including John A. Hobson and Vladimir Lenin); and general trends in feminism, gender studies, and postcolonialism. As Boehmer explains, Schreiner's greatness is to be found in her flaws and failures. Under the...2012-02-0700 minGreat Writers InspireOlive SchreinerProfessor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist. For Boehmer, Schreiner is not 'great' in the conventional sense (she did not possess the great literary brain of George Eliot, for example), but she is a great inspiration in many spheres: she influenced other writers (fellow South African J.M. Coetzee, in particular); other critical thinkers and activists (including John A. Hobson and Vladimir Lenin); and general trends in feminism, gender studies, and postcolonialism. As Boehmer explains, Schreiner's greatness is to be found in her flaws and failures. Under the...2012-02-0711 min