Related Research Master Programmes
- Arts, Literature and Media (Leiden University)
- 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 (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)
Related Local Research Institutes
- 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)
Workshop ‘Stinking Philosophy’
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliWorkshop information Date: 3 december 2025, 13:00-17:00 Location: Leiden University (room TBA) Sign up: workshopsPOEM@hum.leidenuniv.nl (deadline: Friday 14 November 2025) Credits for OSL students: 1ECs. The assignment includes doing the required readings (2 articles + a book chapter), preparing two questions for the Q&A, and attending both the lecture and the workshop. More information will be […]
A meeting with Irene Solà
/in News and Events /by ChantalFriday 7 November 2025 | 16:00–17:00 | University of Amsterdam
On 7 November 2025, the award-winning Catalan writer Irene Solà will speak with students and staff about her work, including her latest novel I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness. With this work, she won this year’s European Literature Prize; according to the jury, this novel “celebrates and damns all of life … Solà’s language is wild, the composition measured, her women simply unforgettable.” I Gave You Eye and You Looked Toward Darkness tells the story of Bernedeta, but also of the place legends, folktales, and myths occupy in our society.
Ravenstein Winter School: Literature and human rights
/in News and Events /by Chantal21-23 January 2026 | The Hague (Leiden University Campus)
The confirmed keynote speakers are Prof. Jaco Barnard-Naudé (University of Cape Town), Dr. Brigitte Herremans (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University) and Prof. Peter Schneck (Osnabrück University).
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 For more information and registration details, see the announcement on the SPUI25 website here […]
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.