April-May 2025 | University of Amsterdam
The first part of the course explores the new horizons and possibilities as well as the limitations of computational approaches in literary studies. Several computational tools will be demonstrated such as concordance software that can be used for discourse analytical approaches and specialized R-scripts for authorship attribution and stylistic analysis.
7 May 2025 | Utrecht University
In this 2 hours workshop, renowned sociologist Anthony Elliott will delve into the intricate relationship between power, subjectivity, and the digital. Drawing on his extensive research in cultural studies and social theory, Elliott will explore how digital transformations can be a powerful tool for both shaping and challenging dominant power structures.
Date: Friday 9 May 2025 Venue: Perdu, Amsterdam Open to: PhDs and (Re)MA students as well as early-career and established researchers; OSL members have first access. Credits: 1EC, see more information below Registration: VIA THIS LINK (Registration will open on 17 February 2025) Keynote speaker: Hanna Meretoja (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, Finland) Call […]
17 January 2025 | University of Amsterdam
On January 17th, 2025, OSL-member Floor Buschenhenke will defend her thesis Entering stories: decoding born-digital writing through keystroke logging. This thesis delves into the intricate dynamics of digital writing processes to explore how eleven Dutch and Flemish fiction writers create their texts.
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.
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