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
- Historische, Literaire en Culturele Studies (HLCS)
- 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)
Ravenstein Winter School ‘New Perspectives on the Novel: Histories, Forms, Representations’
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliUtrecht, 18-20 January 2023
The Ravenstein Seminar 2023 will offer an exciting program of both Dutch and international scholars specialising in the study of the novel, including confirmed keynotes Richard Jean So (McGill University), Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo) and Caroline Levine (Cornell University). Besides plenary lectures and panel sessions on the history, form, and politics of novels from various language fields and cultural contexts, the program contains hands-on workshops about research methods tailored for the study of both individual cases and large collections of novels. Particular attention will be paid to digital humanities approaches to close and distant reading.
Call for Proposals: OSL Research Incubator
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliAt OSL, we know that traditional funding schemes do not always meet the current needs of researchers. In this regard, we have decided to create a new blue-sky science annual call that will foster and promote research that is not oriented toward immediate output nor driven toward creating a monetary return. The best example that illustrates why blue-sky science is important is found in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which was conceived as a project with no clear goal but established under the principles of free scientific inquiry. Likewise, scaled to our OSL community, we aim to provide a similar open space for exploration and experimentation within the boundaries of our institutional mission and actual capacities.
Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliThis course addresses the ways in which literature and art, in their generic capacity for multi-perspective representation, reimagine place and agency within the eternal present inaugurated by the end of the Cold War at the turn of the 1990s. This global discourse of contemporaneity was meant to deconstruct the linear progressive time of modernity that dominated the 20th century. However, arrested within such perceptions of new spatio-temporal fluidities of “the contemporary” were the heterogeneous temporalities of decolonization and democratization in societies that had been negotiating the impacts and afterlives of empire and ideological conflicts of the Cold War across the long 20th century.
Laughing Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humor and Society
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliWhat social functions can humor perform, from literary satire to stand-up comedy? How does a society negotiate the cultural, moral or legal boundaries of humor, i.e. what can and cannot be joked about? How is the production and circulation of humor changing, in the age of social media and viral memes? Questions like these can only be effectively tackled from an interdisciplinary perspective – i.e., by combining literary, cultural, sociological and linguistic approaches to the multifaceted nature of humor as a social phenomenon.
International Blended Seminar ‘War in European Memory’
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliOnline sessions + onsite workshop | October 2022 – April 2023
The international MA seminar with participants from Lucerne, Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Nijmegen and Warsaw focuses on the analysis of practices and narratives of memory in Europe with regard to war. The construction, public usage – politics of history – contestation and transformation of memory of wars over time will be approached by fusing concepts of memory studies and public history, focusing on different agents in the public sphere, especially museums, comme-moration sites, monuments, art, and the media (including social media) will be approached systematically. Against the background of approaches of memory studies (practices, narratives, affects of memory), the seminar aims at an in-depth analytical perspective on past and present constructions of European memories of war and their complex relation to national (and regional) memories. In this perspective, a focus on the present war in Ukraine will be integrated with an eye on how memory is used and produced in this war in Europe.
CfP Symposium ‘Lifting the Veil: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural’
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliAmsterdam | 2 February 2023, 9:30 – 17:00
OSL invites paper proposals for ‘Lifting the Veil: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural’: a one-day symposium on Gothic interpretations of science and the supernatural within fiction, that will take place in Amsterdam on 2 February 2023. The symposium will feature lectures by two keynote speakers, including Dr Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham), author of ‘Oscar Wilde, Photography, and Cultures of Spiritualism: “The most magical of mirrors”’ (2020) and Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt (2022); and another scholar yet to be confirmed. In addition, there will one or two panels with presentations by students and early career scholars.
OSL Academic Programme 2022-2023
/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliThe first overview of the OSL academic programme for 2022-2023 is now available! For most of the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open on August 31st, 2022 (please click on the respective links for more details). If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to osl@rug.nl.
OSL Skills Course: ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliGroningen | 29 September, 6 October, 13 October (Harmony Building, Collaboratory A, 15:00-17:00) + 27 October, 3 November and 10 November (Harmony Building, room 1315:0036, 14:00-16:00).
This course will introduce participants to the craft of fiction writing, enabling them to develop or to expand upon their own practice as creative writers. In the first half of the course, participants will study fiction in diachronic perspective from a variety of traditions, from the epistolary genre to semi-autobiographical writing. Over this series of seminars and creative writing workshops, participants will investigate how earlier forms of fiction-writing have been (and might be) adapted for the creation of contemporary fiction.
What Next? Life After Your ReMA/PhD
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli30 September 2022, 14:00-18:00 CET | Amsterdam, Roeterseilandcampus (REC) B2.01 and B2.11
What does life look like after a ReMA or PhD in literary studies / the humanities? How can you find out what professional path is most suitable for you? During this event, OSL ReMAs and PhDs will have an opportunity to discuss these questions with academics at various stages in their careers, as well as OSL alumni working in policy making and the cultural sector.
OSL Seminar: ‘Africa Beyond “Africa”‘
/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto GodioliAmsterdam | 4,11, and 18 October and 1 November 2022 (OMHP E2.01, 15:00-18:00) + 8 and 15 November 2022 (OMHP E0.13, 15:00-18:00)
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. The seminar is not meant to represent a general overview of African literature and film, but aims to explore a number of topical issues with regard to contemporary literary and cultural production from and about Africa. We will apply an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on the knowledge and expertise from different academic fields working on the topic of African literature and film.