Elleke Boehmer
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2025, Southern Imagining 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
Thought you all would enjoy this pic of the shadow of Cape Town’s Table Mountain at sunset. Talk about Southern Imagining!
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thought you all would enjoy this pic of the shadow of Cape Town’s Table Mountain at sunset. Talk about Southern Imagining!
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Blackwell’s Oxford Events: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel
Blackwell’s, Broad Street Oxford
Dec 3 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm GMT
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Blackwell’s, Broad Street Oxford
Dec 3 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm GMT
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Elleke Boehmer ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel
Join us for a discussion chaired by Lara Feigel with Elleke Boehmer, author of the new book 'Ice Shock'
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Blackwell’s Oxford Events: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social ICE SHOCK with Lara Feigel
Blackwell’s, Broad Street Oxford
Dec 3 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boe...
Blackwell’s, Broad Street Oxford
Dec 3 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm GMT
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elleke-boe...
Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Talking about ICE SHOCK in Cape Town recently.
Excellent news! Congratulations Emma! 🌸
Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉
Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
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Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Excellent news! Congratulations Emma! 🌸
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Video recording of ICE SHOCK launch at Love Books
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Video recording of ICE SHOCK launch at Love Books
Last week, Elleke Boehmer launched her latest novel, Ice Shock, at Love Books. She was in conversation with Michele Magwood. You can watch this wonderful event on YouTube here: LOVE BOOKS LAUNCH OF…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Video recording of ICE SHOCK launch at Love Books
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Last night @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish: Karin Schimke in conversation with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social at the launch of ICE SHOCK. A huge thank you to Linda and the #ExclusiveBooks Cavendish Team for hosting and to all who attended!
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Last night @exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish: Karin Schimke in conversation with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social at the launch of ICE SHOCK. A huge thank you to Linda and the #ExclusiveBooks Cavendish Team for hosting and to all who attended!
What more can I say? Perfect convo with Karen Schimke today @karavanpress.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What more can I say? Perfect convo with Karen Schimke today @karavanpress.bsky.social
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Earlier tonight Love Books: the launch of ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social.
Thank you to Michele Magwood for leading the conversation, to Love Books for hosting and to all who attended. Special thanks to Michael Boyd for the photos! Wish I could have been there ...
Thank you to Michele Magwood for leading the conversation, to Love Books for hosting and to all who attended. Special thanks to Michael Boyd for the photos! Wish I could have been there ...
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Earlier tonight Love Books: the launch of ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social.
Thank you to Michele Magwood for leading the conversation, to Love Books for hosting and to all who attended. Special thanks to Michael Boyd for the photos! Wish I could have been there ...
Thank you to Michele Magwood for leading the conversation, to Love Books for hosting and to all who attended. Special thanks to Michael Boyd for the photos! Wish I could have been there ...
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That’s our Priyasha! 🎶 @engfac.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
That’s our Priyasha! 🎶 @engfac.bsky.social
Oh, what a night! Discussing willed telepathy, ice cracks and so much more about the two hemispheres and lovers flipping between them, with Michele Magwood and this brilliant LoveBooks audience. @karavanpress.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Oh, what a night! Discussing willed telepathy, ice cracks and so much more about the two hemispheres and lovers flipping between them, with Michele Magwood and this brilliant LoveBooks audience. @karavanpress.bsky.social
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So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry. Continue reading...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
So….southern imagining… what’s that? A book, it seems. @princetonupress.bsky.social
Research seminar: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social at the University of Pretoria
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: Graduate Centre 1-68, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
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Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: Graduate Centre 1-68, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
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Elleke Boehmer at the University of Pretoria
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October 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
LOVE BOOKS launch of ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 5.30 for 6PM
Elleke will be in conversation with Michele Magwood.
Not to be missed!
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Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 5.30 for 6PM
Elleke will be in conversation with Michele Magwood.
Not to be missed!
karavanpress.com/2025/10/20/l...
Love Books launch of ICE SHOCK by Elleke Boehmer
We are delighted that Elleke Boehmer is returning to South Africa for a few days and will be launching and discussing her novel Ice Shock at a few events at the end of October and beginning of Nove…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Research seminar: @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social at the University of Pretoria
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: Graduate Centre 1-68, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
karavanpress.com/2025/10/21/e...
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Time: 11:30 – 13:00
Venue: Graduate Centre 1-68, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria
karavanpress.com/2025/10/21/e...
Elleke Boehmer at the University of Pretoria
Visit the post for more.
karavanpress.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Please join us for the launch of ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social:
Elleke will be in conversation with Karin Schimke.
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
Monday, 3 November 2025
5.30 for 6PM
RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...
Elleke will be in conversation with Karin Schimke.
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
Monday, 3 November 2025
5.30 for 6PM
RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Please join us for the launch of ICE SHOCK by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social:
Elleke will be in conversation with Karin Schimke.
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
Monday, 3 November 2025
5.30 for 6PM
RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...
Elleke will be in conversation with Karin Schimke.
@exclusivebooks.bsky.social Cavendish
Monday, 3 November 2025
5.30 for 6PM
RSVP: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...
In beautiful Krakow to talk about JM Coetzee’s The Pole (2022). So many angles to this novella.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
In beautiful Krakow to talk about JM Coetzee’s The Pole (2022). So many angles to this novella.
@engfac.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
@engfac.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social
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This looks great! New novel?! Many, many congratulations Elleke
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This looks great! New novel?! Many, many congratulations Elleke
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‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
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Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
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Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
You are ‘staggering’ with style and cool!
Thanks to the conference organisers and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for facilitating this work, esp while I stagger through the first months of maternity leave.
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
You are ‘staggering’ with style and cool!