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 incubator of collaborative research ideas, to translate these ideas into concrete and viable research projects, and to disseminate the resulting research findings to a wide variety of audiences.

Starting from April 2019, the group will hold trimonthly meetings to share ideas and provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration within and beyond OSL. If you are interested in joining the group’s activities, please send an email to the coordinators.

Coordinators:

• Andrew Bricker (Ghent University, andrew.bricker@ugent.be)
• Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen, a.godioli@rug.nl)

Current members:

• Dr. mr. Michiel Bot (Tilburg University)
• Mr. dr. Claudia Bouteligier (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Dr. Vicky Breemen (Utrecht University)
• Dr. Kelly Breemen (Utrecht University)
• Dr. Andrew Bricker (Ghent University)
• Daniëlle van den Brink (University of Groningen)
• Amalia Calderón (University of Amsterdam)
• Dr. Angela Condello (University of Messina)
• Mr. dr. drs. Iris van Domselaar (University of Amsterdam)
• Mr. dr. Emanuel van Dongen (Utrecht University)
• Yiorgos Douliakas (Leiden University)
• Mr. dr. Carinne Elion-Valter (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Prof. Cassandra Falke (Arctic University of Norway)
• Prof. mr. dr. Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Dr. Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen)
• Dr. Yasco Horsman (Leiden University)
• Prof. dr. Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden University / Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Yuliia Khyzhniak (University of Groningen)
• Dr. Marileen La Haaije (Radboud University)
• Dr. Ted Laros (Open University)
• Dr. Marielle Matthee MA (Leiden University)
• Dr. Megan Milota (UMC Utrecht)
• Dr. mr. David Napolitano (Leiden University)
• Mr. Pauline Phoa LLM (Utrecht University)
• Dr. Anna Poletti (Utrecht University)
• Dr. mr. Irena Rosenthal (University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. dr. Sarah Schoenmaekers (Maastricht University / Open University)
• Sterre Schols (Leiden University)
• Dr. Timo Slootweg (Leiden University)
• Dr. Tiziano Toracca (University of Turin / Ghent University)
• Dr. Martine Veldhuizen (Utrecht University)
• Benjamin Verheye (KU Leuven)
• Dr. Tessa de Zeeuw MA (Leiden University).

Initiatives, calls and publications:

• CfP MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights (deadline 4 March 2022)
• MLA 2022 Panel: World Literature and Human Rights (Washington, 6 January 2022)
• Postdoc on Humor and Free Speech, University of Groningen (deadline: 4 November 2021)
• Call for Papers: MLA Session on Literature and Human Rights (deadline: 20 March 2021)
• MLA 2021 Panel: Humor and the Law (8 January 2021)
• Call for Papers: Proposed special issue for Law and Literature (Cardozo Law School) on Humor and the Law (deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2020)
• Special issue of Frame: War, Literature and Law, November 2020 (featuring selected papers from the 2020 OSL Ravenstein winter school)
• Ravenstein Winter School: War, Literature and Law (22-24 January 2020)

Useful links:

• European Network Law and Literature
• Literature / History / Human Rights
• ForHum: Forum for Humor and the Law