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.
ERC Advanced Grant voor Ann Rigney (UU): onderzoek naar burgerdemonstraties Burgerdemonstraties halen gauw het nieuws maar lijken daarna te verdwijnen. Hoe worden deze demonstraties herinnerd als ze niet langer nieuwswaardig zijn? Hoe worden vormen van protest hergebruikt door nieuwe generaties? Wat maakt een burgerprotest succesvol? Dat zijn de centrale vragen in het ERC-project van literatuurwetenschapper […]
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.
Date: March 21-23, 2018 Location: Tagungshotel Schloss, Gnadenthal, Kleve Organizaton: dr. Yvonne Delhey (Radboud Universiteit), prof. dr. Rolf Parr (Universität Duisburg-Essen), dr. Kerstin Wilhelms (Universität Münster) Utopie – Thomas Morus dachte sie sich vor 500 Jahren als Insel – die Insel als ein Gegenentwurf zur Gesellschaft. Bei Morus ist sie eine ideale, konfliktfreie Welt, während […]
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.
18-22 June 2018 | Rome
Thinking about vulnerability often raises questions which are political and ethical in nature: who or what is vulnerable? What reactions does vulnerability provoke? What forms of responsibility does vulnerability entail? Vulnerability has been argued to be a defining characteristic of the human condition. The American philosopher Daniel Callahan writes that “we are as human beings intrinsically vulnerable. We are vulnerable to time and nature […] and we are vulnerable to each other”. Yet these vulnerabilities are shared not only by humans but also, for instance, by non-human animals. Indeed, the recognition that animals, too, are vulnerable is a key argument in animal rights. To recall a much-quoted phrase from Jeremy Bentham: “the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
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.
16 February 2018
This masterclass invites advanced postgraduate students to explore the mobile, cross-cultural nature of utopia. Even if the word was invented in Europe in 1516 by Thomas More, utopia has manifestations in and has travelled between all inhabited continents, for example in Asia, through Buddhism.
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.
Jan 24-26, 2018 / 5 EC
In this winter school we will explore various approaches and topics relating to the current ‘turn to affect’ and emotions in literary and cultural studies. We will discuss the role of emotions in early modern literary culture, probe various theories of affect (Deleuzian/Spinozist, ideological critique, formalist and aesthetic approaches) and their employment in the study of literature, and explore links with film studies and ecocriticism.