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
- 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)
Call for Applications: CLIC Grant Writing Residency
/in Forum /by ChantalApplication deadline: 31 July 2025
CLIC is happy to announce four short (1-2 months) paid Grant Writing Residencies in the period August-December 2025. Candidates will spend the Residency preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications for the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and/or Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).
Are you an early-career postdoctoral researcher (max. 6 years post-PhD) with a background in literary studies, theatre studies, journalism studies, translation studies, or related disciplines? Are you eager to start the next step of your academic career in the coming year? Then consider applying for a Grant Writing Residency to prepare your next postdoc project with CLIC!
Symposium: “Global Readers, Global Novels?”
/in Forum /by Chantal23 October 2025 | Maastricht University
Together, these panels engage with central questions in the study of reading today: How is literature used to make sense of the world and one’s place in it? How do collective reading practices shape identity, community, belonging and resistance? What forms of knowledge do readers produce, and how can scholars account for them methodologically and ethically? And how might collaborations between academics and practitioners help us better understand the role of literature in contemporary life?
CfA Seasonal School Literature and Culture as Practices of Care
/in Forum /by ChantalCHARM DOCTORAL SCHOOLS SEASONAL SCHOOL 2025 LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN HEALTH HUMANITIES LITERATURE AND CULTURE AS PRACTICES OF CARE Ghent, 27-29 August 2025 Venue: Museum dr. Guislain, Jozef Guislainstraat 43B, 9000 Ghent. In recent decades, literary and cultural studies have secured a rightful place within the (Critical) Medical and Health Humanities. Initially, literary studies […]
Soapbox 7.0: call for papers: Between Bodies and Homes
/in Forum /by Chantal— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals — To feel like we belong is one of our most common desires. Our bodily relation to home is not a simple one: it is marked by hostile power structures. These structures plunge the body into an interconnected web of demarcations, mediations, and […]
Open Call – Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings – Issue 11.1 (Spring 2026)
/in Forum /by ChantalThe Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g. intra-, inter- and transmedial phenomena, hypermedia, genre hybridization and mixing, (inter-/cross-)cultural exchange, networks, interactions, contact zones, entanglements, cross-border movements, multilingualism, transnationality, topographies, etc. JLIC publishes two issues a year and has a running open call.
Summer School Creative Writing at Maastricht University
/in Forum /by Chantal21 July – 1 August 2025 | Maastricht University
Would you like to hone your creative writing skills? This two-week, intensive course provides you with the tools and knowledge to put your creative ideas on paper, through hands-on workshops and classes on literary skills such as pacing, plot, and narration. You’ll even receive insight into the publishing world and expert feedback on a first draft of your own short story.
Meet the Editor at VUB: PMLA, 20-21 May 2025
/in Forum /by Chantal20-21 May 2025 | Brussel, Belgium
Registrations are now open for “Meet the Editor at VUB: PMLA”!
Meet the Editor of PMLA, Brent Hayes Edwards, at VUB, 20-21 May 2025! Join a panel discussion on academic publishing in the humanities, a workshop (VUB early career scholars only), and a public lecture entitled “Editing Diaspora: Translating Black Culture across Borders”.
Inaugural Max Nänny Lecture
/in Forum /by Chantal28 March 2025 | University of Amsterdam
This lecture is organized by IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies) in collaboration with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA, https://asca.uva.nl), specifically the ASCA Word & Image research group.
Vacancy: DIAS Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Humanities
/in Forum /by ChantalOdense, Denmark
Application deadline: February 27, 2025 at 12.59 PM/23.59 (CET/CEST).
The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invite applications for a fully tenured professorship in the study of literature. The candidate is expected to start in October 2025, or as soon as possible.
XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
/in Forum /by ChantalLisbon, June 30 – July 5, 2025
After years of financial crisis and politics of austerity, as well as a pandemic that brought ordinary life to a halt, culture today is laden with excess. This excess can take many different shapes and foster diverse readings, some of them positive, focusing on excess as an opportunity, while others reflect on its pernicious effects.