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OSL Research Day and Lecture with Prof. Rita Felski

August 23, 2023/by Chantal

Conference Urban Lives: Amsterdam Diaries and Other Stories of the Self 

August 23, 2023/by Chantal

OSL Skills Course: ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’

August 23, 2023/by Chantal

OSL Seminar: ‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’ 

August 23, 2023/by Chantal

International Blended Seminar: ‘War in European Memory’

August 23, 2023/by Chantal

OSL Research Day and Lecture with Prof. Rita Felski

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal

Nijmegen, 29 September 2023, 13:00-18:00
This event will feature a masterclass by Prof. Rita Felski titled “How Not to Talk About Experience,” followed by a panel with presentations by OSL PhDs and ReMA students.

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Conference Urban Lives: Amsterdam Diaries and Other Stories of the Self 

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal
Conference Urban Lives: Amsterdam Diaries and Other Stories of the Self 

University of Amsterdam, 26 – 28 October 2023
In October 2025, Amsterdam will celebrate its 750th anniversary. In light of this upcoming celebration, two of the city’s institutes of higher education, the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, are inviting academics, artists, and others to share their research and knowledge on one particular topic: Amsterdam diaries and other stories of the self.

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OSL Skills Course: ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal
OSL Skills Course: ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’

Groningen, October – November 2023
This course will introduce participants to the craft of fiction writing, enabling them to develop or to expand upon their own practice as creative writers.

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OSL Seminar: ‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’ 

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal
‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’

Groningen & Amsterdam, November – December 2023.
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.

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International Blended Seminar: ‘War in European Memory’

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal
International Blended Learning Seminar: War in European Memory

16 October – 15 December 2023 | Online + onsite workshop
This international MA seminar with participants from Lucerne, Paris, Cologne, Berlin,
Nijmegen, and Warsaw focuses on the analysis of practices and narratives of memory in
Europe with regard to war. The construction, public usage – politics of history –
contestation, and transformation of memory of wars over time will be approached by fusing
concepts of memory studies and public history, focusing on different agents in the public
sphere, especially museums, commemoration sites, monuments, art, and the media (including
social media).

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Ravenstein Winter School: ‘Sustainability and Literature’

August 23, 2023/in News and Events /by Chantal
Ravenstein Winter School: 'Sustainability and Literature’

17-19 January 2024 | University of Amsterdam
“Sustainability” is one of the central concepts of our age. While the term is so ubiquitous in virtually all areas of life – a Google search yields close to three and a half billion hits for the term, more than “freedom” or “democracy” – its rise in dominance is a fairly recent phenomenon. The pervasiveness of sustainability discourse suggests that we are now living through a major socio-economic transformation, comparable to the agricultural and industrial revolutions. But the concept’s popularity also raises many questions and concerns about the who and the what of sustainability.

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OSL Awards 2023

July 7, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli
OSL Awards

The call for the 2023 OSL Awards is now open! Just like last year, the awards consist of five categories: ‘published scholarly book’, ‘published article’, ‘PhD dissertation’, ‘ReMA thesis’ and ‘valorization‘. The Awards are intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of literary studies and to highlight the work of talented OSL […]

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Hermes Summer School ‘Narrating Degrowth and Sustainability: Cultural Imaginaries and the 4th Industrial Revolution’

July 7, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Utrecht, 10-14 June 2024 | Summer School of the Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies Description Cultural Narratives are symbolic matrixes in the making that orientate behavior, world-views, affects, social engineering, and practices (Kuipers 2019; Valdivia 2017, 2019). Literature and cultural symbolic products (fiction, poetry, music, transmedia, theater, amongst others) are privileged sources of […]

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OSL Academic Programme 2023-2024

July 7, 2023/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

The first overview of the OSL academic programme for 2023-2024 is now available! For most of the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open in late August or early September 2023 (the exact dates will be announced on the website and in our August newsletter). If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to osl@rug.nl.

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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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ABOUT OSL

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

  • 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
  • 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)
  • Radboud Institute of Culture and History (RICH)

Related Research Schools

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

Related International Research Institutes

  • Harvard Institute of World Literature
  • HERMES
  • 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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