OSL Seminar: Moving Europe: Making a podcast series about narratives of Europe

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Dates: Wednesday 1/10, 13:00-16:00 @UvA (room TBA); Wednesday 15/10, 13:00-16:00 @UL (podcast workshop, Podcast Studio in Humanities Hub, Huizinga 0.12); Wednesday 29/10, 13:00-16:00 @UvA (room TBA); Wednesday 12/11, 13:00-16:00 @UvA (room TBA); Wednesday 26/11, 10:00-17:00 @UL (podcast recording, Podcast Studio in Humanities Hub, Huizinga 0.12); Wednesday 17/12, 13:00-16:00 @UvA (room TBA)
Venues: University of Amsterdam / Leiden University
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Margriet van der Waal (University of Groningen) and Dr. Astrid Van Weyenberg (Leiden University)
Credits: 5 EC. More details on the assignments will be provided soon. NB: Credits can only be awarded to humanities ReMA and PhD students from Dutch universities.
Open to: PhDs and ReMA students; OSL members have first access.

Registration will open on 4 September 2025, VIA THIS LINK.

In this workshop, we will investigate how literature is able to reflect, talk back, deconstruct and challenge different narratives of Europe that circulate in the European public sphere. Narratives, for example, that teleologically construct Europe as having a clear historical origin; that rewrite European history to serve a specific political agenda; that function as bordering spaces of in- and exclusion; that imagine Europeans as a homogeneous group; or that conceive of Europe as a social constitution of overlapping and potentially conflicting identities. We will use the popular format of the podcast to communicate our scholarly findings to a broader audience. Therefore, this course is also a practical exercise in science communication. Our plenary sessions will serve as editorial meetings where students and staff collectively act as an editorial board with a shared responsibility for the podcast production. This requires a professional work attitude from those who choose this course. Participants will receive practical training in podcasting from Thomas Vorisek (Leiden University), who will also supervise the recording and editing of the podcasts.

More information will follow soon.