University of Amsterdam, April-May 2019, 3-6 EC
Scholars working in computational literary studies make use of computer software that helps them to analyze digital textual data. Software can support the exploration of a much larger amount of data in systematic ways than was possible before. In this course, students will get introduced to the most important current approaches in computational literary studies, ranging from the analysis of style and methods for the verification and attribution of authorship to various forms of ‘distant reading’ and discourse analysis.

Utrecht, Jan 23-25, 2019 (5 EC)
This Ravenstein Seminar will inquire into the implications of the so-called material turn for memory studies including the new challenge to engage in new ways with work in the field of critical heritage studies. We will explore the complex entanglements of matter and memory, inquiring into the ways in which people remember materially, using things as aides-mémoire, but also how things remember in and for themselves, thing-memory being integral to the life of materials. In part because the material turn is the result of “a different image of thought in which everything has turned” (St. Pierre et al.), the Ravenstein Seminar “Memory Studies and Materiality” also specifically aims to reconnoitre the methodological implications of the material turn in and for memory studies, reflecting on the methods with which we can study the entanglement of memory and materiality and how we can do material memory studies.

‘Kijk nu eens daadwerkelijk naar literaire kwaliteit’ Stereotypen belemmeren eerlijke beoordeling vrouwelijke auteurs Datum: vrijdag 18 mei om 11.00 uur. Locatie: Aula van de UvA, Singel 411, Amsterdam Promotoren: prof. dr. L.W.M. Bod en prof. dr. K.H. van Dalen-Oskam Het literaire werk van vrouwen wordt nog altijd minder literair gevonden dan dat van een man. […]