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OSL Seed Money Call 2023

February 28, 2023/by Alberto Godioli

Automatic metaphor identification: state-of-the-art, trends and future applications for narrative studies

February 8, 2023/by Chantal

OSL Awards 2022: Congratulations to the Winners!

January 26, 2023/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Skills Course: Computational Literary Studies

January 26, 2023/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Life Writing

January 26, 2023/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Seed Money Call 2023

February 28, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli
OSL Seed Money Call 2023

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.

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Automatic metaphor identification: state-of-the-art, trends and future applications for narrative studies

February 8, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal

17 March 2023 | University of Groningen
Lakoff and Johnson, and scholars that followed their line of inquiry, have explained why and how metaphor is not just a rhetoric embellishment but a ubiquitous cognitive device present in everyday language, affecting how we think and act. Thus, metaphor is one of the most complex abstract cognitive devices with which the human mind is equipped and which weaves not only discourses and narratives but also power relations, world-views, behaviors, and affects. In recent years, artificial intelligence has largely surpassed its limits and has enriched and optimized various promising models for language processing, including language models such as ChatGPT.

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OSL Awards 2022: Congratulations to the Winners!

January 26, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli
OSL Awards 2022: Congratulations to the Winners!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 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.

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OSL Skills Course: Computational Literary Studies

January 26, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Scholars working in computational literary studies make use of computer software that helps them to analyze digital textual data. Software can support the exploration of a much larger amount of data in systematic ways than was possible before. In this course, students will get introduced to the most important current approaches in computational literary studies, ranging from the analysis of style and methods for the verification and attribution of authorship to various forms of ‘distant reading’ and discourse analysis.

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OSL Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Life Writing

January 26, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

This course focuses on contemporary debates in life writing as a newly emerging field across disciplines. Life writing is an umbrella term for a wide range of writings about one’s own or someone else’s life, such as biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, bio-fiction and travel writing. In the course we will explore various life stories of men and women in the 20th and 21st centuries, who each had their own unique set of life experiences, beliefs and perceptions. This will help gain a richer understanding of how individuals move through, interact with, and are affected by the major events of their time — and how their lives are narrated, either by themselves or by others.

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OSL Symposium ‘Lifting the Veil: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural’

January 8, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

‘Lifting the Veil: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural’ is a one-day symposium on Gothic interpretations of science and the supernatural, taking place in Amsterdam on 2 February 2023. The symposium will feature lectures by two keynote speakers, namely Dr Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham), author of Victorian Alchemy: Science, Magic and Ancient Egypt (2022); and Dr Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University), co-editor of Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media (with M.S. Newton, 2019). In addition, there will be two panels with presentations by students and early career scholars.

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OSL Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers: Framen, schrappen en herschrijven

December 5, 2022/in News and Events /by Chantal

27 & 28 maart, 3 & 4 april 2023 | Universiteit Utrecht
Valorisatie wordt in de wetenschap steeds belangrijker. En dan gaat het er niet alleen over dat je onderzoek aansluiting vindt bij maatschappelijke thema’s, maar ook dat je aan het brede publiek duidelijk kunt maken waar het over gaat en wat er interessant aan is. In deze korte, intensieve schrijfcursus leer je in verschillende tekstgenres je onderzoek te presenteren.

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Ravenstein Winter School ‘New Perspectives on the Novel: Histories, Forms, Representations’

November 24, 2022/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Utrecht, 18-20 January 2023

The Ravenstein Seminar 2023 will offer an exciting program of both Dutch and international scholars specialising in the study of the novel, including confirmed keynotes Richard Jean So (McGill University), Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo) and Caroline Levine (Cornell University). Besides plenary lectures and panel sessions on the history, form, and politics of novels from various language fields and cultural contexts, the program contains hands-on workshops about research methods tailored for the study of both individual cases and large collections of novels. Particular attention will be paid to digital humanities approaches to close and distant reading.

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Call for Proposals: OSL Research Incubator

October 30, 2022/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

At OSL, we know that traditional funding schemes do not always meet the current needs of researchers. In this regard, we have decided to create a new blue-sky science annual call that will foster and promote research that is not oriented toward immediate output nor driven toward creating a monetary return. The best example that illustrates why blue-sky science is important is found in the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which was conceived as a project with no clear goal but established under the principles of free scientific inquiry. Likewise, scaled to our OSL community, we aim to provide a similar open space for exploration and experimentation within the boundaries of our institutional mission and actual capacities. 

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Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures

October 30, 2022/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

This course addresses the ways in which literature and art, in their generic capacity for multi-perspective representation, reimagine place and agency within the eternal present inaugurated by the end of the Cold War at the turn of the 1990s. This global discourse of contemporaneity was meant to deconstruct the linear progressive time of modernity that dominated the 20th century. However, arrested within such perceptions of new spatio-temporal fluidities of “the contemporary” were the heterogeneous temporalities of decolonization and democratization in societies that had been negotiating the impacts and afterlives of empire and ideological conflicts of the Cold War across the long 20th century.

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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 2022-2023 should be submitted by 15 November 2021.

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

NB: The academic programme for 2022-2023 is now full. You are very welcome to submit proposals for 2023-2024.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please fill in this Google Form.

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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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ABOUT HERMES

The Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies. Read more →

NIAS

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

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  • Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology Research (UM)
  • Gender Studies (UU)
  • Geschiedenis (UvA)
  • Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (RU Nijmegen)
  • Literary Studies (Leiden University)
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  • 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)

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  • Historische, Literaire en Culturele Studies (HLCS)
  • Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)
  • Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS )
  • NIAS-KNAW
  • Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC)
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  • Harvard Institute of World Literature
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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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