25 June 2025 | Amsterdam
Gilmore’s recent work, in short, charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. As part of her visit to the Netherlands, OSL, in collaboration with Open University and the Netherlands Research School for Gender Studies, will host Professor Leigh Gilmore a masterclass in the afternoon of June 25th.

2 & 11 June 2025 | University of Amsterdam
In this workshop, after a theoretical and methodological introduction, some exemplary voices from various historical periods and geographical areas will be presented: from Sappho to Catullus, from Abū Nuwās to Hafez, from Michelangelo to Shakespeare, from Lorca to Cavafy. We will then work on specific case studies – Frank O’hara, Morrissey and Patrizia Cavalli – to examine through close readings their poetics and reception.

We are proud to announce the publication of the first two episodes of Moving Europe: Literary Interventions, a podcast series hosted by Astrid Van Weyenberg (Leiden University) and Margriet van der Waal (RUG/UvA) for the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). In each episode, students explore how literature reflects, challenges, and responds to the narratives of Europe that circulate in the public sphere. Episode 1, […]

The OSL seed money grant aims to foster collaboration within and beyond the OSL community. The OSL Board will make € 1000,- available as seed money for the most promising initiative, including for instance: Planning of symposia, workshops and conferences in 2026 or 2027 Publications (e.g. contribution to publishing fees, editing services, etc.) Assistance for […]

Àpril – May 2025 | University of Groningen

This course will introduce students to a range of very contemporary flash fiction and short stories while inviting students to develop their own fiction writing practice. Participants will read recent short fiction from the small-press literary scene that does urgently important activist work using a variety of formal strategies and genre engagements, from stories that use epistolary structures, employ translanguaging, or borrow from the conventions of scientific or social media writing to pieces that present fresh takes on speculative, dystopian, and gothic narrative.