Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)

Muslim Worlds / World Literatures

October 20, 2020/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Online workshop (NISIS/OSL) | 12 February 2021, 12:00-18:00

This workshop is the first collaboration between the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) and the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). As suggested by the plurals in the title, the event aims to question univocal views of both Muslim culture and world literature. On the one hand, we will consider Muslim worlds in their diversity, as opposed to representations of Islam as a dominant, stable essence. On the other, we will problematize the notion of world literature by way of interrogating its multiple definitions and socio-political implications. From One Thousand and One Nights to the latest novel by Jokha Alharthi, we will explore the different ways in which Muslim cultures have shaped (and have been shaped by) the world’s literary landscape.

Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation

September 29, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli

International Online Seminar | October 2020 – May 2021
The Universities of Groningen and Antioquia (Medellín) are happy to announce the first edition of the international online seminar Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation. The seminar is co-sponsored by OSL, and will feature six sessions delivered by leading experts in conflict narratives from an interdisciplinary perspective.

De kunst van het boekomslag

September 28, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli

Amsterdam | 2 December 2020 Woensdag 2 december, 14:00-17:00, inloop vanaf 13:30 Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam Ontwerpers, uitgevers en schrijvers stoppen veel tijd in het creëren van aantrekkelijke omslagen. Een geslaagde omslag kan een boek maken of breken, lezers verleiden tot een aankoop of ze juist afstoten. Tegelijkertijd wordt ook op andere […]

OSL Masterclass with Philipp Blom

September 3, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli

Online event | 18 September 2020, 16:00-17:00 CEST

On Friday 18th of September, OSL will host an online masterclass by novelist and historian Philipp Blom, titled Need for a New Story: The Role of Academics and Artists in Narrating a Sustainable World. Philipp Blom (Hamburg, 1970) is a historian, novelist, journalist, and translator. He studied in Vienna and Oxford and writes for several British, German and Dutch newspapers and journals, such as The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, Die Zeit, and Vrij Nederland.

Book Presentation: Christel N. Temple, Black Cultural Mythology

August 24, 2020/1 Comment/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli

Online event | 19 February 2021
Time: 16:00-17:30 (Amsterdam time)
Credits: 1 (attendance + short assignments; details to be announced)
Christel Temple is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her latest book, Black Cultural Mythology (SUNY, 2020), provides a highly innovative conceptual framework for exploring the complex relations between cultural memory, heroic narratives, activism and creative production within and beyond the African diaspora.

OSL Academic Programme 2020-2021

July 8, 2020/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

The first complete overview of our academic programme for 2020-2021 is now available! For the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open in September (more details will follow soon); if you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to osl@rug.nl.

NB1: The programme below is not complete; more events may be added in the coming months. NB2: Due to the uncertain situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we do not know to what extent it will be possible to hold in-person gatherings during the next academic year, especially (but not exclusively) during Semester 1. As indicated below, most of our forthcoming activities are already designed as online events; in the remaining cases, we are keeping in contact with the organizers with a view to minimizing any possible disruption to our training activities.

OSL Research Day Seed Money and OSL Awards

July 8, 2020/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

OSL regrets to announce that the Research Day will not take place in 2020. The OSL Research Day normally serves as the official opening of our academic programme, and provides a valuable platform for dialogue and research collaborations between literary scholars within and beyond the Netherlands. However, the situation of uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has made it quite difficult to plan physical events in Fall 2020; and since an online Research Day would defeat the very purpose of the event, this seemed like the safest decision at this stage. On a brighter note, both our seed money grant and the OSL Awards will be normally assigned this year; please find more information below.

OSL Seminar: Africa beyond “Africa”: Literary explorations

July 8, 2020/1 Comment/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli

Online seminar | 6 October, 20 October, 27 October, 3 November, 17 November, 24 November 2020 (15:00 – 17:00)
Although political, sociological, ethnographical or anthropological perspectives from, on and about Africa are frequently examined and discussed, African artistic domains remain relatively underexposed in the Netherlands. This is remarkable, especially when taking into account that African artistic practices are booming – both at home and around the world. In this course, we will problematize a number of assumptions about Africa and explore how contemporary African literature and film invite us to imagine and rethink Africa as part of the world and the location of the future.

OSL PhD Workshop: Literature and the Social

July 8, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Chantal

Online PhD workshop | 4 December 2020
Towards the end of the twentieth century, the study of literature became decidedly more sociological. Under the influence of thinkers such as Pierre Bourdieu and disciplines such as gender and postcolonial studies, scholars started paying attention to the context of literary production. This move has sometimes seen literature reduced to a status subordinated to other disciplines – merely the offshoot of other, ‘real’ processes in society and culture. In this seminar, we counter this view and aim to rethink how literature relates to the social, in particular regarding the ways in which literature can make our social world legible and visible in new ways.

OSL Workshop: Generalizations, Hypotheses, Evidence in Literary Studies

July 8, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Chantal

Online workshop | Friday 23 October 2020
How do we move from particular examples to more general statements about the literary world? This is what I will be calling the practice of generalization, and it effects all knowledge domains. While other fields have long grappled with this problem, literary studies has yet to engage in sustained discussion surrounding the principles and procedures through which we produce generalized knowledge about the world.

PROPOSE A COURSE / ACTIVITY

OSL welcomes you to submit proposals for courses and activities at any time of the year. However, please bear in mind the following:

Proposals for longer activities (courses and seminars) should be submitted before November 15th of the previous year. For instance, course/seminar proposals for 2020-2021 should be submitted by 15 November 2019.

Proposals for shorter activities (workshops, conferences, masterclasses) should be submitted at least 8 months before the planned date.

NB: The academic programme for 2020-2021 is now full. You are very welcome to submit proposals for 2021-2022.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please fill in this Google Form.

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Muslim Worlds / World Literatures

Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation

De kunst van het boekomslag

OSL Masterclass with Philipp Blom

Book Presentation: Christel N. Temple, Black Cultural Mythology

Muslim Worlds / World Literatures

Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation

De kunst van het boekomslag

OSL Masterclass with Philipp Blom

Book Presentation: Christel N. Temple, Black Cultural Mythology

OSL Academic Programme 2020-2021

OSL Research Day Seed Money and OSL Awards

OSL Seminar: Africa beyond “Africa”: Literary explorations

OSL PhD Workshop: Literature and the Social

OSL Workshop: Generalizations, Hypotheses, Evidence in Literary Studies

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