OSL Symposium: Creative-Critical Approaches to the Health Humanities

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 […]

Crisis and Critique: Rethinking Europe and the Global South

From Crisis to Critique

Crisis-talk dominates contemporary public debates, from the global financial crisis to the ongoing migration crisis, and from the environmental crisis to the global covid-19 health crisis. The term crisis today is often ‘hijacked’ by populist, xenophobic, and anti-democratic agendas in Europe that limit the space of political choice and the imagination of alternatives. This network […]

Theories from the South and the East in Literature and Culture

This research group sets out to explore and develop theoretical approaches for the study of literary and broader cultural production that interlink the knowledge and experiences of the Global South and the Global East. A product of post-Cold War globalization, the term ‘Global South’ replaced the politically motivated ‘three-Worlds’ division with a seemingly neutral scheme […]

OSL Research Group: Literature, Law and Society

The research group “Literature, Law and Society” is intended as an open platform for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of law and literature, branching and extending beyond narrow conceptions of either law or literature and exploring and questioning the exclusivity of that pairing. The aim of the research group is to act as an […]

OSL Research Group: Tourism and Travel Cultures

There is a lot of research being done in the Low Countries concerning travel literature and the relationship between literature, travel, transnationalism and tourism. This group aims to bring together researchers and research groups to facilitate collaboration on a regular basis.

OSL Research Group: Cultural Memory

Over the past two decades, the field of cultural memory studies has established itself internationally as an important and fertile area of inter- and multi-disciplinary research. Institutionalized through dedicated journals (Memory Studies was started in 2008), associations (Memory Studies Association was inaugurated in 2016) and standing committees (e.g. at MLA), with its own canon of theoreticians, the field has not only matured, but also grown and diversified.

OSL Research Group: Poetics of Knowlegde

Knowledge and scientific imagination are inherently linked up with issues of form and representation. This insight has informed the work of literary scholars such as Gillian Beer and N. Katherine Hayles as well as research in the fields of science studies, discourse analysis and certain strands of new materialism (K. Barad et al.). The members of this research group share an interest in recent developments in these fields and, more specifically, in the ways in which literary texts relate to other discourses and forms of knowledge, the shifting boundaries between literature and science and the history of divergent epistemic cultures in various contexts and disciplines.