OSL Academic Programme 2023-2024

The first overview of the OSL academic programme for 2023-2024 is now available! For most of the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open in late August or early September 2023 (the exact dates will be announced on the website and in our August newsletter). If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to osl@rug.nl.

NB: Unless stated otherwise, all events are being planned as onsite.

Semester 1 (September 2023 – January 2024)

 

OSL Research Day and Masterclass with Prof. Rita Felski | Nijmegen, 29 September 2023, 13:00-18:00. Organizers: Prof. Michael Boyden (Radboud University).

This event will feature a masterclass by Prof. Rita Felski titled “How Not to Talk About Experience,” followed by a panel with presentations by OSL PhDs and ReMA students.

 

Urban Lives: Amsterdam Diaries and Other Stories of the Self | Amsterdam, 25-26 October 2023. 1 ECs

 

Skills Course ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’ | Groningen, October – November 2023. Organizers: Dr Suzanne Manizza-Roszak and Dr David Ashford (University of Groningen). 5 ECs

 

Seminar ‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’ | Groningen / Amsterdam, November – December 2023. Organizers: Dr Ksenia Robbe (University of Groningen), Dr Sanjukta Sunderason (University of Amsterdam) and Dr Hanneke Stuit (University of Amsterdam). 5 ECs.

 

International Blended Seminar ‘War in European Memory’ | Online + onsite workshop, October – December 2023. 7 ECs. Registration deadline: 9 October 2023.

 

Ravenstein Winter School ‘Sustainability and Literature’ | Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2024. Organizers: Prof. Dr. Michael Boyden (Radboud University), Dr. Doro Wiese (Radboud University) and Dr. Jeff Diamanti (University of Amsterdam). 6ECs.

 

Semester 2 (February – July 2024)

 

Seminar ‘Queer Textual Politics’ | Amsterdam, February – April 2024. Organizers: Dr Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam) and Dr Müge Özoğlu (Utrecht University). 5ECs.

 

Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers: Framen, schrappen en herschrijven | Utrecht, March 2024. Organizer: Prof. Geert Buelens (Utrecht University). 3EC.

 

Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing’ | Amsterdam, April – May 2024 (5 sessions). Organizers: Dr. Marleen Rensen (UvA) and Dr. Babs Boter (VU). 5 ECs.

 

Seminar ‘Computational Literary Studies’ | Amsterdam / Online | April – May 2024. Organizer: Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam. 3-6 ECs

Masterclass ‘Literature/Comics Crossroads: Genres, Forms, Narratives’ | Amsterdam, 2 May 2024. Organizers: Dr Kristina Gedgaudaitė (University of Amsterdam) and Dr Enrique del Rey Cabero (University of Alcala, Spain). 1 EC
Symposium ‘Genre and Gender Bending in Trans* Literature’ | Groningen, 12 May 2024. Organizers: Dr. Jeanette den Toonder and Dr Judith Jansma (University of Groningen). 1-2 ECs.

OSL PhD Day | June 2024.

More details will follow soon.

 

Hermes Summer School ‘Narrating Degrowth and Sustainability: Cultural Imaginaries and the 4th Industrial Revolution’ | Utrecht, 10-14 June 2024.

 

Institute of World Literature Summer Program | Venue TBA, July 2024.