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27Oct/21
C. J. Griffin - 'On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay'

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

C. J. Griffin – ‘On Neoliberal Society: The Aesthetic of the Secret in the Fiction of Jackie Kay’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened byRead More…

27Oct/21
Ana García-Soriano - 'Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)'

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Ana García-Soriano – ‘Liminality and Intimacy in Jackie Kay’s Wish I Was Here (2006)’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (AberystwythRead More…

27Oct/21
Nancy Gish - '"Opening Out": Jackie Kay’s Many Voices'

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”’: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Nancy Gish – ‘“Opening Out”: Jackie Kay’s Many Voices’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona TolanRead More…

27Oct/21
Jackie Kay reads 'Darling'

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’

27 October 2021VideosJackie KayErica Lombard

Jackie Kay reads ‘Darling’ ‘Jackie Kay: An International Conference’ was hosted online, 3 June 2021, and convened by Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Dr Fiona Tolan (Liverpool John Moores University). TheRead More…

15Aug/21
Split screen view of poet Kayo Chingonyi on the left, and interviewer Chelsea Haith on the right.

Kayo Chingonyi on Nation, Blood, and Poetic Form

15 August 2021VideosKayo ChingonyiErica Lombard

Kayo Chingonyi on Nation, Blood, and Poetic Form Interview by Chelsea Haith In his second collection, A Blood Condition (2021), Kayo Chingonyi presents a voice wise and weary beyond his years. NominatedRead More…

29Jun/21
benjamin zephaniah

Art & Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation

29 June 2021VideosBenjamin ZephaniahErica Lombard

On 24 June 2021, Benjamin Zephaniah was in conversation with the writer and editor Malachi McIntosh at the Story Museum in Oxford.

17May/21
Title card for Lyndsey Stonebridge's talk "The Times of Rights and Writing"

Lyndsey Stonebridge: ‘The Times of Rights and Writing’

17 May 2021VideosLyndsey StonebridgeErica Lombard

Lyndsey Stonebridge, ‘The Times of Rights and Writing’, a talk given at the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar on 4 May 2021.

16Mar/21
Screengrab of Amit Chaudhuri's face during the interview

A video interview with Amit Chaudhuri about ‘Literary Activism’

16 March 2021VideosAmit Chaudhuri, Literary ActivismErica Lombard

A video interview with Amit Chaudhuri about Literary Activism, recorded on 26 February 2021.

01Nov/20
The cover of Johny Pitts's Afropean

Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu

1 November 2020VideosJohny PittsErica Lombard

Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion was streamed live on 22 October 2020. It featured the author JohnyRead More…

17Jan/20
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Great Writers Inspire at Home: Patience Agbabi reading and conversation

17 January 2020VideosPatience AgbabiErica Lombard

Great Writers Inspire at Home: Patience Agbabi reading and conversation In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebelliousRead More…

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Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds (Principal Investigator: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dr Erica Lombard) is an initiative of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature, supported by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund.

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