November – December 2019 | University of Amsterdam
In this seminar we will explore different narratives of/on/about Europe. For this, we will depart from a number of questions. Firstly, how are ideas about the past utilized, for example by constructing Europe as a teleological narrative with clear historical origins, or by rewriting history in order to serve a contemporary political agenda?
The fourth OSL Research Day will take place on October 11, 2019 at the University Library in Groningen. We invite scholars from all Dutch universities to explore affinities in their research interests and possibilities for future collaboration around a number of research topics (mentioned below). The Research Day hopes to stimulate more collaboration between literary […]
University of Amsterdam | 17-18 October 2019
This 2-day workshop will probe contemporary crisis-scapes in order to explore the ways ‘crisis narratives’ structure experiences and representations of time and space, i.e., the ways ‘crisis’ as a framework, concept, rhetoric, affective or discursive structure forms or taps into specific chronotopes.
November-December 2019 | University of Groningen
This course will introduce participants to poetic genres, forms and metres, enabling them to develop, or to expand upon their own practice as creative writers. Participants will study poetry from a variety of traditions, in order to understand how poetic form is determined by its original context in performance, and by the information, musical and theatrical technologies necessary to that original performative context.
Leiden | 5 oktober 2019 | met onder andere als gastspreker Tom Lanoye
De carrière van de in Sint-Niklaas geboren Tom Lanoye omspant zo’n veertig jaar. Hij schrijft poëzie, romans, columns, kritieken, essays en toneelstukken. Zijn werk is veelvuldig bekroond, en met name de roman Sprakeloos was een publieksfavoriet. Behalve oorspronkelijke theaterstukken maakt hij ook toneelbewerkingen van o.a. Tsjechov, Marlowe, Shakespeare. Zijn Ten oorlog (1997) werd verkozen tot meest belangwekkende stuk uit de Nederlandstalige theaterliteratuur. Hamlet versus Hamlet (2014) zal centraal staan in een gesprek met Peter Verstraten, opleidingsvoorzitter van Film- en Literatuurwetenschap aan de Universiteit Leiden.
Friday 25 October | Utrecht University
This workshop will provide analytical tools to study the branding of literature. Drawing on the work of – amongst others – Clayton Childress, Philippe Mihailovich and Karl Moore, literary branding is defined as an interactive process in which producers (e.g. authors, publishers, literary agents), distributors (e.g. book traders, librarians) and consumers (e.g. critics, teachers, readers) construe a set of regimented associations with an author, oeuvre or literary text.
23-25 January 2020 | Leiden University
In this OSL winter school we aim to focus on current and historical instances of warfare, from the contemporary to the distant past, and on a wide range of violent conflicts such as the ones named above. All of them has been thematised in literature – and ‘literature’ is also a synecdoche here for all forms of art, like cinema, comics, paintings, songs, plays, and so forth.
Januari 2020 | Universiteit Utrecht
12-13 December | Amsterdam, NIAS
The notion of defamiliarization is strikingly undertheorized; in order to find a systematic reflection on the topic, we need to go back to the Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky’s work on ostranenie in literature in the early 20th century or to German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theorization of Verfremdungseffekt in the 1930s to describe theatrical devices that break audiences’ passive absorption in theatrical illusion.
April – May 2020 | Utrecht University
In 2015, the American magazine The Atlantic proclaimed ‘the death of the artist – and the birth of the creative entrepeneur’. The discourse on literary authorship has indeed changed over the past fifty years: the representation of the author as a solitary genius seems more outdated than ever, now that writers are often presented as competitors in a literary market.