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Summer School: Narratives of Peace, Conflict and Reconciliation

April 20, 2021/by Alberto Godioli

OSL PhD Day 2021: Full Programme

April 20, 2021/by Alberto Godioli

OSL/NICA Symposium ‘Posthuman Futures in Literature and Art’: Preliminary Programme

April 20, 2021/by Alberto Godioli

New Regularization Law in Colombia: Event with Pablo Valdivia

March 17, 2021/by Alberto Godioli

Summer School: Literature and the Digital Humanities

February 11, 2021/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Workshop: From Crisis to Critique: Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes

February 7, 2021/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Chantal

4-5 March 2021 | Online

Today, the term crisis is often ‘hijacked’ by far-right, xenophobic, and anti-democratic agendas that shrink the space of political choice and the imagination of alternative futures. In this workshop we ask if there are ways to salvage crisis as a concept that can do the work of its cognate—critique—and participate in the articulation of alternative languages, literary narratives, and other modes of representation in visual, digital and social media, cinema, and art.

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OSL Workshop: How Not to Write a Novel

February 7, 2021/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Chantal
OSL Workshop: How Not to Write a Novel

21 May 2021 | Amsterdam, Eye Filmmuseum
How not to Write a Novel seems to be a joke but it is not. This workshop delivered by the Spanish writer Jesús Carrasco (De Vlucht 2013, De Grond Onder Onze Voeten, 2016, both published in Dutch by Meulenhoff) tries to be a record of his experience in writing his third novel. But why should the writing of a third novel be so difficult? Why not the second? The answer is simple.

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OSL/NICA Symposium: Posthuman Futures in Literature and Art

February 7, 2021/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Chantal
Posthuman Futures in Literature and Art

3-4 June 2021 | University Amsterdam
Within late capitalism, developments in the natural sciences, digital information technologies, and the study of ecological systems have altered the shared understanding of the basic unit of reference for the human. Critical posthumanism (Braidotti, 2016) works as an analytical tool that allows one to expose restrictive structures of dominant subject-formations as well as expressing alternative representations of subjectivity. This posthumanist agenda intersects with New Materialism (van der Tuin, 2012), building a discursive and material production of reality. Knowledge production is understood as situated and embodied visions (Haraway, 1988). Materialist feminism, with the speculative turn (van der Tuin, et al. 2015), develops analytical tools to think beyond the limit of human perception, refusing to make a separation from (non)human subjecthood.

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Open call: the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings

January 20, 2021/in News and Events /by Chantal

Deadline 28 February 2021
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.

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OSL Awards 2020: Congratulations to the Winners!

January 5, 2021/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

5 January 2021

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 OSL Awards: Marc Farrant (best article, first prize) and Jesse van Amelsvoort (best article, runner-up). Our warmest congratulations to Marc (left) and Jesse (right)!

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Promotie: Marileen La Haije (Radboud Universiteit)

December 16, 2020/in Current PhD research, News and Events /by Chantal

Op maandag 8 februari om 16.30 verdedigt Marileen La Haije (RU) haar proefschrift  “Memorias locas: Una lectura de la ficción centroamericana (de los años noventa a la actualidad) desde la conexión entre locura y trauma”.

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KNAW Webinar: Perspectieven op Literatuur. De toekomst van de letterkunde in Nederland

November 28, 2020/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli
Workshop with David Alworth

Online | 7 December 2020

De letterkunde in Nederland is springlevend en innovatief, ondanks de ‘ontlezing’ en de precaire situatie van taal- en literatuuropleidingen. Tijdens dit webinar tonen vijf experts hoe, in een veranderend literair veld, nieuwe zienswijzen richting geven aan de toekomst van literatuur en letterkunde in Nederland.

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Promotie – Roel Smeets (Radboud Universiteit)

November 11, 2020/in News and Events, PhD Defences /by Chantal
Promotie - Roel Smeets (Radboud Universiteit)

Aanstaande 24 november om 16.30 stipt verdedigt Roel Smeets zijn proefschrift Character Constellations: Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction. 

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De kunst van het boekomslag

November 4, 2020/in News and Events, Training programme - Archive /by Alberto Godioli
De kunst van het boekomslag

Woensdag 2 december 2020 | 14:00-17:00 | Online Registratie opent op 28 oktober. Ontwerpers, uitgevers en schrijvers stoppen veel tijd in het creëren van aantrekkelijke omslagen. Een geslaagde omslag kan een boek maken of breken, lezers verleiden tot een aankoop of ze juist afstoten. Tegelijkertijd wordt ook op andere manieren aandacht besteed aan omslagen: denk […]

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Ravenstein Seminar 2021: Literature, Language and Belonging

November 3, 2020/1 Comment/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Utrecht | 20-22 January 2021 (the seminar will move online if necessary)
Literature distinguishes itself from other art forms through its use of language. Without language, no literature. At the same time, language also binds groups of speakers together through its everyday use as means of communication and the intimate ties that exist between language and culture. Therefore, language is closely related to notions of (national) belonging: it offers an individual membership of a particular cultural and political collective. Writers contribute to shape these social collectives, even though some writers do not find themselves at home there and have consequently asked probing questions about the cultural politics of their writing, their use of language and the community-constituting effects of their writing. In this winter school, we will explore the various ways in which literature, through its use of language, creates, sustains and contests notions of belonging. We take our keywords – ‘literature’, ‘language’ and ‘belonging’ as invitations to think about what the connection between these keywords mean or could mean.

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The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) is the national research network for literary theory, comparative and (trans)national literatures, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature in the Netherlands.
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OSL welcomes you to submit proposals for courses and activities at any time of the year. However, please bear in mind the following:

Proposals for longer activities (courses and seminars) should be submitted before November 15th of the previous year. For instance, course/seminar proposals for 2020-2021 should be submitted by 15 November 2019.

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HARVARD INSTITUTE FOR WORLD LITERATURE

OSL has become a member of the Institute for World Literature (IWL). IWL is directed by David Damrosch (Harvard), and has several affiliated institutions all over the world; OSL is the only member institution for the Netherlands.
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The Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies. Read more →

NIAS

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) provides temporary fellowships for talented scholars – renowned and up-and-coming researchers alike. It stimulates curiosity-driven advanced research in a collaborative and constructive environment. Mission statement | More information

KNIR

The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) is the oldest and largest of the Dutch academic institutes abroad. For more than a century, the KNIR has been committed to high-quality research and interdisciplinary education in the humanities, and served as a bridge between Dutch universities and the academic world in Italy.

The KNIR offers courses for students in every subject area and at every level, and provides scholarships and accommodation in Rome for outstanding students and researchers in a range of disciplines. More information

Related Research Master Programmes

  • Arts, Media and Literary Studies (RuG)
  • Comparative Literary Studies (UU)
  • Critical Studies in Art and Culture (VU Amsterdam)
  • Cultural Analysis (UvA)
  • Cultural Leadership (RuG)
  • Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology Research (UM)
  • Gender Studies (UU)
  • Geschiedenis (UvA)
  • Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (RU Nijmegen)
  • Literary Studies (Leiden University)
  • Literary Studies (UvA)
  • Literature & Contested Spaces (VU Amsterdam)
  • Media, Art and Performance Studies (UU)
  • Research Master European Studies (UM)
  • Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Related Local Research Institutes

  • Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS)
  • Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
  • Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
  • Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht (CGD)
  • Centre for the Humanities
  • Historische, Literaire en Culturele Studies (HLCS)
  • Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)
  • Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS )
  • NIAS-KNAW
  • Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC)
  • Radboud Institute of Culture and History (RICH)

Related Research Schools

  • Huizinga Instituut (Utrecht)
  • Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Gender Studies (Utrecht)
  • NICA (Amsterdam)
  • OIKOS (Groningen)
  • Onderzoekschool Mediastudies (RMeS) (Groningen)
  • Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek (Groningen)

Related International Research Institutes

  • Harvard Institute of World Literature
  • HERMES
  • KNIR
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  • About OSLOSL Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies The Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) is the national research network for literary theory, comparative literature, Dutch literature, and the literatures of the major modern languages in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1995, and has flourished as a forum for debate and exchange of scholarly views in the field, also functioning as the principal Dutch provider of excellent, cutting-edge coursework and education for research students and PhD candidates in this field. The OSL framework brings together a group of approximately 100 scholars from seven Dutch universities. Literary Studies is a dynamic discipline. The OSL encourages the study of literature (understood as both the printed or digitized word as well as literary culture and the question of literariness) in its historical manifestations and dynamics, and from a variety of mutually complementary perspectives. The research of OSL members focuses on modern and contemporary literature. Within the OSL framework the complementary approaches of cultural history and cultural analysis are of equal standing and often combined. Focal points at the moment include: Cultural Identity and Memory Ideology, Ethics and Representation Remediation, Adaptation, and Translation Effects, Canonization, and (Institutional) Politics Postcolonialism and Globalization Reading and…
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