Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Elleke Boehmer is part of the 2020 1st Semester, and 2025 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
Projects
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Southern imaginaries, or, thinking across the South
At a time when the focus of economic development is often the so-called Global South, yet when countries of the north continue to grow in geopolitical dominance, this interdisciplinary project offers a series of cultural, historical, and literary reflections on southness. -
J.M. Coetzee, Connection, Cognition: Perspectives from the South
The project is a comparative study of the South African-born, now Australian writer J.
Related to Elleke Boehmer
Event
Southern Imagining: how and why to see the world upside down - STIAS Public lecture by Elleke Boehmer
Register here by 14 March 2025 Abstract: For many, a northern viewpoint is the default and the south is faraway and ignorable.
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Southern Imagining: A cultural and literary history of the far southern hemisphere - Fellows' seminar by Elleke Boehmer
The talk gives an overview of my current research project Southern Imagining, a literary and cultural history of responses to far southern hemisphere worlds, 1798 to the present.
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Southern Imagining: how and why to see the world upside down - STIAS Public lecture by Elleke Boehmer
I must admit I have recently thought, what’s the point of this work in the light of the crisis in the US, but perhaps we need southern imagining more than ever before, said Elleke Boehmer.