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A meeting with Andrei Kurkov – State of European Literature

April 23, 2025/by Chantal

[Call for Papers] Feminist life writing today: A masterclass with Leigh Gilmore

April 9, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Workshop: Translational Poetics with Erín Moure

April 7, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Workshop on Queer Poetry

March 27, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Awards: The results are in!

March 14, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

A meeting with Andrei Kurkov – State of European Literature

April 23, 2025/in News and Events /by Chantal

21 May 2025 | University of Amsterdam
On 21 May, Ukrainian author Andrei Kurkov will give the seventh State of European Literature. He is the celebrated author of many books, such as the bestselling novels Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees. In recent non-fiction books as Diary of an Invasion and Our Daily War, he documents from up close the war in Ukraine. He continues to write for media across Europe and the United States on the history, culture, and current situation in Ukraine.

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[Call for Papers] Feminist life writing today: A masterclass with Leigh Gilmore

April 9, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

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.

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OSL Workshop: Translational Poetics with Erín Moure

April 7, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

1 May 2025 | Utrecht University
For this workshop, Montreal-based “transborder poet and translator of poetry and poetics” Erín Moure will lead participants in a discussion on creative and collaborative translation, as well as how her own work develops a ‘biopoetics.’ Participants will also be invited to participate in translation exercises, as well as share their translations for collective feedback. Following the workshop, participants are asked to attend a public reading in the same location (BAK), featuring Moure alongside Dutch poet/translator/editor Frank Keizer.

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OSL Workshop on Queer Poetry

March 27, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

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.

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OSL Awards: The results are in!

March 14, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

14 March 2025   We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 edition of the OSL Awards! The Awards are intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of literary studies and to highlight the work of talented OSL students and scholars. Please find the full list below: ReMA Thesis First […]

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Podcast Moving Europe: Literary Interventions

March 13, 2025/in News and Events /by Chantal

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, […]

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ASCA Workshop 2025: Re-Imagining Universality in the Pluriverse

February 24, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Organizers: Laila Bouziane & Serra Hughes. Call for Papers ASCA International Workshop 26-28 May 2025 Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2025 Contact: ascaworkshop2025@gmail.com   Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. dr Markus Messling, Saarland University, Professor of Romance literatures and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Prof. dr Barnita Bagchi, University of Amsterdam, Professor of World Literatures Dr […]

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OSL Seed Money Grant 2025

February 12, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

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 […]

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Call for Papers: OSL PhD Day

February 12, 2025/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Registration for the OSL PhD Day opens on April 2nd, 9am VIA THIS LINK Dear OSL PhDs, We are excited to announce that the upcoming OSL PhD day will take place in Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit, NU 5A57) on Friday, 13 June 2025.  The day’s theme will be “Crossing Borders.” The program will consist of a […]

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OSL Course: Creative Writing – Activist Approaches to Fiction Writing

February 6, 2025/in News and Events /by Chantal

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.

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The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) is the national research network for literary theory, comparative and (trans)national literatures, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature in the Netherlands.
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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 2024-2025 should be submitted by 15 November 2023.

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

NB: The academic programme for 2024-2025 is now full. You are very welcome to submit proposals for 2025-2026.

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HARVARD INSTITUTE FOR WORLD LITERATURE

OSL has become a member of the Institute for World Literature (IWL). IWL is directed by David Damrosch (Harvard), and has several affiliated institutions all over the world; OSL is the only member institution for the Netherlands.
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The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) provides temporary fellowships for talented scholars – renowned and up-and-coming researchers alike. It stimulates curiosity-driven advanced research in a collaborative and constructive environment. Mission statement | More information

KNIR

The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) is the oldest and largest of the Dutch academic institutes abroad. For more than a century, the KNIR has been committed to high-quality research and interdisciplinary education in the humanities, and served as a bridge between Dutch universities and the academic world in Italy.

The KNIR offers courses for students in every subject area and at every level, and provides scholarships and accommodation in Rome for outstanding students and researchers in a range of disciplines. More information

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)

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)

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  • Huizinga Instituut (Utrecht)
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  • NICA (Amsterdam)
  • OIKOS (Groningen)
  • Onderzoekschool Mediastudies (RMeS) (Groningen)
  • Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek (Groningen)

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  • Harvard Institute of World Literature
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  • KNIR
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  • About OSLOSL Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) is the national research network for literary theory, comparative literature, Dutch literature, and the literatures of the major modern languages in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1995, and has flourished as a forum for debate and exchange of scholarly views in the field, also functioning as the principal Dutch provider of excellent, cutting-edge coursework and education for research students and PhD candidates in this field. The OSL framework brings together a group of approximately 100 scholars from seven Dutch universities. Literary Studies is a dynamic discipline. The OSL encourages the study of literature (understood as both the printed or digitized word as well as literary culture and the question of literariness) in its historical manifestations and dynamics, and from a variety of mutually complementary perspectives. The research of OSL members focuses on modern and contemporary literature. Within the OSL framework the complementary approaches of cultural history and cultural analysis are of equal standing and often combined. Focal points at the moment include: Cultural Identity and Memory Ideology, Ethics and Representation Remediation, Adaptation, and Translation Effects, Canonization, and (Institutional) Politics Postcolonialism and Globalization Reading and…
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