The expert meeting will take place on 8 and 9 February 2023 in Amsterdam. The outcome will be an edited volume. We gladly invite contributions both for the expert meeting and the edited volume. Please send your brief proposal to g.j.a.snel@uva.nl and david.wertheim@jck.nl. Jewish literature — by which we understand literature by Jewish authors on Jewish topics— has struck a powerful chord in post WWII global culture. At a time when European Jewish culture had been all but destructed, it paradoxically obtained an unprecedented urgency among mostly non-Jewish audiences. At the same time, the history of the holocaust gained a central place in the intellectual and moral restoration of the Western world.

28 & 29 April 2022 | Trippenhuis, Amsterdam & online
How do literary writers create their art? And how can we study their writing process when they are writing in a digital environment? These questions form the core of the research project Track Changes. We have brought together international experts from writing process studies as well as from the field of genetic criticism to share their insights and exchange ideas.

Guest Lecture by Sean O’Brien (University College Dublin) organized by Ben Moore 7 April 2022 | 17:00 -18:30 PC Hoofthuis room 104,Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam At the January 2020 meeting of the American Economic Association, a “depressing consensus prevailed” amongst delegates: “the developed world is stuck with low growth…for years to come” (Greene 2020). Despite unprecedented […]

We invite contributors to engage with the topic of this conference from a variety of disciplines, and across all expressive media. The focus of this conference is specifically on the way regions were represented in cultural media in transnational contexts: the emphasis is therefore not on political or geographic dimensions or definitions of regionalism, but rather on its cultural imagination and conceptualisations.

Voorstellen voor artikelen (max. 500 woorden) kunnen met een korte biografie worden ingestuurd via locus@ou.nl. Deadline voor voorstellen is 1 mei 2022. Na acceptatie is de deadline voor complete bijdragen 10 juni 2022. Iedere bijdrage ontvangt gebundeld redactiecommentaar waarna er ruimte is voor herziening. Voordat overgegaan wordt op publicatie vindt een eindredactieronde plaats.
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