Useful resources for online teaching
Dear Members of the OSL Community,
We would like to share with you a couple of links that might be useful in the context of our current transition to online teaching:
OSL Course: Literature Between the State and the Market
April – May 2020 | Utrecht University
In 2015, the American magazine The Atlantic proclaimed ‘the death of the artist – and the birth of the creative entrepeneur’. The discourse on literary authorship has indeed changed over the past fifty years: the representation of the author as a solitary genius seems more outdated than ever, now that writers are often presented as competitors in a literary market.
OSL Course: Computational Literary Studies
April – May 2020 | University of Amsterdam
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.
OSL Masterclass ‘Speculative Ecologies: Turning the Human(ities) Inside Out’
May 2020 | Utrecht University
THE MASTERCLASS IS FULLY BOOKED
If the humanities is a tranquil mountain resort with a lake around which scholars gather to bath in the beauty of literature, culture, history, and other things human, then speculative ecologies awaken the terrifying Beast of Transdisciplinarity at the bottom of the lake, disturbing the scholars’ soothing stay. What will happen if the scholars look the Beast in the eye, or look through its eyes?
OSL Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Life Writing
May-June 2020 | University of Amsterdam
THE SEMINAR IS FULLY BOOKED
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.
Keynote Lecture by Caroline Levine
29 January 2020
The conference Stranger Things: Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture took place in Amsterdam on 12-13 December 2019.
Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School 2020): War, Literature and Law
22-24 January 2020 | Leiden University
In this OSL winter school we aim to focus on current and historical instances of warfare, from the contemporary to the distant past, and on a wide range of violent conflicts such as the ones named above. All of them has been thematised in literature – and ‘literature’ is also a synecdoche here for all forms of art, like cinema, comics, paintings, songs, plays, and so forth.
Conference: Stranger Things: Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture
12-13 December | Amsterdam
The notion of defamiliarization is strikingly undertheorized; in order to find a systematic reflection on the topic, we need to go back to the Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky’s work on ostranenie in literature in the early 20th century or to German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theorization of Verfremdungseffekt in the 1930s to describe theatrical devices that break audiences’ passive absorption in theatrical illusion.
OSL joins the Institute for World Literature (IWL)
21 November 2019 We are happy to announce that OSL has just 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. Every summer, IWL organizes a four-week programme at one of […]
Hermes Summer School ‘Space, Affect, Memory: Performances and Representations’
Centre for Advanced Studies (CIEDUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | 22-26 June 2020 Research Group – Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, PhD Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Call for Papers Bringing together the notions of space, affect, and memory results in an appealing intersection in […]