Related Research Master Programmes
- Arts, Media and Literary Studies (RuG)
- Comparative Literary Studies (UU)
- Critical Studies in Art and Culture (VU Amsterdam)
- Cultural Analysis (UvA)
- Cultural Leadership (RuG)
- Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology Research (UM)
- Gender Studies (UU)
- Geschiedenis (UvA)
- Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (RU Nijmegen)
- Literary Studies (Leiden University)
- Literary Studies (UvA)
- Literature & Contested Spaces (VU Amsterdam)
- Media, Art and Performance Studies (UU)
- Research Master European Studies (UM)
- Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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- Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS)
- Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
- Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
- Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht (CGD)
- Centre for the Humanities
- Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)
- Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS )
- NIAS-KNAW
- Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC)
- Radboud Institute of Culture and History (RICH)
Arts of Memory and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Masterclass and Lecture with Prof. Stef Craps
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliProfessor Stef Craps (Ghent University) will visit Radboud University Nijmegen on 4–5 November 2025 to give a masterclass for PhD and ReMA students and a public lecture followed by a roundtable. The events will explore how cultural works engage with ecological forgetting, grief, and guilt. Masterclass for PhD and ReMA Students ‘Confronting Amnesia, Practising […]
Fragments, Clues, and Surprises in Literary Biographies: Writing Cavafy’s Life
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliDate: 28 November 2025 Time: 17:00-18:30 Venue: SPUI25 Podium, Amsterdam (Spui 25, 1012 WX Amsterdam) Main organizer: Prof. Dr. Maria Boletsi (Leiden University & University of Amsterdam) Speakers: Prof. Dr. Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University), dr. Koen Hilberdink (biographer) ECTS: 1 EC Event description: Literary biographies have long fascinated the public, as they have offered […]
International Blended Seminar: The Shoah in European Memory
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliOctober – December 2025 | Radboud University
This international seminar offers a unique opportunity for students from multiple European countries to collaborate in an international and interdisciplinary environment. From October to December, the course will feature weekly online evening sessions, providing spaces for the exchange of ideas, reflection on texts, and analysis of primary sources in small international groups. Students will prepare two presentations throughout the semester, which will be shared and discussed in a plenary session. The online course will be followed by a two-day workshop in the spring semester, with participation optional.
CfP OSL Research Day 2025 ‘Feelings and Flesh: Affect, Health, and the Textual Body’
/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli27 October 2025 | Utrecht University
While serving as a meeting occasion for the entire OSL community, the 2025 OSL Research Day will take the shape of a symposium focusing on a specific theme – namely the intersections of Medical Humanities and Affect Theory, examining how literature and cultural narratives mediate experiences of illness, embodiment, and care. The symposium asks: how do literary and artistic representations of illness shape the way we suffer, heal, and endure? How does affect – pain, anxiety, hope, frustration – structure the experience of illness and medical intervention? How do different genres, from lyric poetry to the illness memoir, from fiction to medical case studies, construct or challenge dominant narratives of health and disability?
Spinoza lecture with María Dueñas
/in News and Events /by Chantal6 November 2025 | University of Groningen
More details will be announced in August/September.
OSL / NICA Masterclass: The Cultural Study of New Orleans
/in News and Events /by Chantal7 November 2025 | University of Groningen
This masterclass, organized by Bryan Wagner (UC Berkeley) and Danielle van den Brink (RUG), brings together scholars and artists from the US and Europe through the UC Berkeley and NEH-funded initiative titled ‘An Open Classroom on New Orleans Culture’. Using the materials from this collaborative project, we will bring an expansive and diverse study of the cultural narratives of New Orleans to Groningen.
OSL & NOG Public lecture by Achille Mbembe
/in News and Events /by Chantal25 November 2025 | Utrecht University
More details will be announced in August/September.
OSL Seminar: Moving Europe: Making a podcast series about narratives of Europe
/in News and Events /by ChantalOctober – December | Leiden University / University of Amsterdam
In this workshop, we will investigate how literature is able to reflect, talk back, deconstruct and challenge different narratives of Europe that circulate in the European public sphere. Narratives, for example, that teleologically construct Europe as having a clear historical origin; that rewrite European history to serve a specific political agenda; that function as bordering spaces of in- and exclusion; that imagine Europeans as a homogeneous group; or that conceive of Europe as a social constitution of overlapping and potentially conflicting identities.
OSL Seminar ‘Exploring economic history through literature: an interdisciplinary introduction’
/in News and Events /by ChantalOctober – December 2025 | Utrecht University
The course will range across global regions, cover historical periods from the pre-modern to the speculative future, and comprise a variety of literary genres from realism to science fiction via poetry, memoir and testimony. In each of these contexts we use economic theory and economic history to enhance understanding of the case studies but also use the case studies in their turn to test the applicability of the theory.
OSL Seminar: Queer Textual Politics
/in News and Events /by ChantalNovember 2025 – January 2026 | University of Amsterdam
This seminar explores literature across different cultures, times, and spaces, emphasising Sedgwick’s concept of ‘across-ness’. It introduces foundational texts and theories related to gender and sexuality and provides new and critical perspectives on queer scholarship and activism. We aim to shed light on diverse and complex perspectives, particularly of the Global South. The seminar seeks to promote more inclusive and equitable approaches to queer theory.