The third OSL Research Day will take place on October 12, 2018 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). More topics can be added to the list, in particular by participants who already have future collaborators in mind. In that case please contact Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia: p.valdivia.martin@rug.nl by June 30. Although literature is the main scope of the OSL Research School, we explicitly encourage multidisciplinary research.

Op 18, 19 en 20 april organiseert de Universiteit Antwerpen het tweejaarlijke congres Achter de verhalen. Thema van deze editie is De terugkeer van de geschiedenis.

13-14 March 2018 (1 EC) | Maastricht University
Bringing together an international group of specialists, this workshop reflects on the role of literary and cultural studies in the contemporary humanities and on potential collaborations with colleagues from the social sciences who use qualitative methods like interviewing and fieldwork.

1st Conference on Frisian Humanities | 23 – 26 April 2018
We’d like to invite you to our first Conference on Frisian Humanities, in the Municipal Theatre De Harmonie in Leeuwarden, from 23 till 26 April 2018, as part of the project Lân fan taal (Country of languages) of Leeuwarden-Fryslân European Capital of Culture 2018. We’re happy to present you the preliminary program of the four symposia on the conference.

June 8, RUG – 1 EC
Ever since Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Bruno Latour forcefully have called into question the dominance of established modes of critique, there has been debate among literary and cultural scholars on the meaning and orientation of reading and critique. In recent years, Rita Felski’s work in Uses of Literature (2008) and The Limits of Critique (2015) has been at the centre of these discussions. The purpose of this master class is to think about the future of critique, criticism and reading in our own academic work, and to ask how these new avenues of thought and practice might be put to work for societal engagement and valorisation. – This master class aims not only to facilitate interaction and dialogue among the participants, but also explicitly encourages them to actively search for new ways of reading and criticism and include them in their research projects.