The OSL Sustainable Humanities research group invites you to a lecture by David Sergeant. Date: 12 December 2024, 4-5:30 Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 2-3, room 019 Registration via neh@ru.nl by December 10 For more information, please contact Professor Michael Boyden (michael.boyden@ru.nl) ‘The truth was, most biodiversity was redundant’: human and nonhuman relations during the […]
31 January 2025 | Utrecht University
‘Meditations on Malevolence’ is a one-day symposium on the representation of evil in literature, taking place in Utrecht on 31st January 2025. The symposium will feature lectures by two keynote speakers, namely Prof. Maria Boletsi (Leiden University / University of Amsterdam) and Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University). In addition, there will be two panels with presentations by students and early career scholars.
6 December 2024 | Utrecht University
On Friday 6 December, Professor of Comparative Literature Ann Rigney will bid farewell to Utrecht University with her final lecture ‘Protest Memory: How Narrating the Past Can Change the Future’.
Rigney bases her lecture on her recent project Remembering Activism and explores the ways in which protest movements, rarely commemorated in public monuments and often ending in defeat, are nevertheless remembered over time in stories that recall hope in the possibility of change. Trees, and how they are defended, will figure prominently in her talk.
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11 December 2024 | Leiden University
During this workshop we will focus on the topic “dominant and dominated cultures” taking as an example traditional Macedonian music and poetry to probe bigger questions of prohibition, border literature, translation, and resistance as well as poetry and music’s autonomy. We will explore music from its instances of celebration such as fairs, to its recordings, to its prohibition, and its persecutions.
13, 14, 27 & 28 januari 2025 | 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.
1 November 2024 | University of Amsterdam
Polish Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk has won the European Literature Prize for her latest novel Empusion. Together with her translator Karol Lesman, she will pick up this prize on November 2nd. The day before, on Friday 1 November, there will be an opportunity to meet the author and engage in a Q&A with her.
8 November 2024 | University of Amsterdam
The comics medium has long been employed to communicate with a range of audiences from mainstream entertainment to counter-cultural and educational settings. The topics addressed by comics are equally wide-ranging, from superhero stories to histories of war, and from graphic medicine to activism, to name just a few examples. Comics research, in the meantime, came to encompass not only close-reading of specific texts but also the making of comics as a research method. Through this day-long event, Comics Studies Day invites participants to take stock of all these developments and explore comics as a performative medium.
The call for the 2024 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 […]
Where and when: Tilburg, 22-24 January 2025 Organizers: Dr Élodie Malanda (Tilburg University), Dr Vera Veldhuizen (University of Groningen) Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access Credits: 6 ECs. NB: Credits can only be awarded to humanities ReMA and PhD students from Dutch universities. Registration will open 7 October 2024, 9am CET via this […]
Where and when: Amsterdam | 6 February, 13 February, 20 February, 6 March, 13 March, 20 March and 3 April 2025 (14:00–17:00 CET) Organizer: dr. Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam) Open to: PhDs and ReMA students; OSL members have first access. Credits: 5-6 EC. More details on the assignments will be provided soon. NB: Credits can only […]
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