CfA Seasonal School Literature and Culture as Practices of Care

CHARM 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

— 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)

The 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

Tiele-scriptieprijs 2023

21 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

20-21 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

28 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

Odense, 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

Lisbon, 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.

IWL 2024: A report by Marit van de Warenburg

This year’s edition of the Harvard-based Institute of World Literature program took place at the University of Cyprus from July 18th to August 1st. OSL PhD candidate Marit van de Warenburg (Utrecht University) took part in the program — please find Marit’s report below!   This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Institute […]

Book launch Josje Weusten + Seeing is believing

13 November 2024 | Lumiere Maastricht
During the presentation of her book Fake Fish – a dystopian novel about the devastating impact of fake news and the cancel culture on the European Union – author Josje Weusten will have a conversation with Dr Jan de Roder. After their conversation, a documentary on synthetic media and Deepfake, one of the main themes of the book, will be shown. Afterwards, in collaboration with book store De Tribune, books will be sold and signed.