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A meeting with Andrei Kurkov – State of European Literature

April 23, 2025/by Chantal

[Call for Papers] Feminist life writing today: A masterclass with Leigh Gilmore

April 9, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Workshop: Translational Poetics with Erín Moure

April 7, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Workshop on Queer Poetry

March 27, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

OSL Awards: The results are in!

March 14, 2025/by Alberto Godioli

Comics Study Day

September 30, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

8 November 2024 | University of Amsterdam
The comics medium has long been employed to communicate with a range of audiences from mainstream entertainment to counter-cultural and educational settings. The topics addressed by comics are equally wide-ranging, from superhero stories to histories of war, and from graphic medicine to activism, to name just a few examples. Comics research, in the meantime, came to encompass not only close-reading of specific texts but also the making of comics as a research method. Through this day-long event, Comics Studies Day invites participants to take stock of all these developments and explore comics as a performative medium.

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OSL Awards 2024: Call for Submissions

September 29, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

The call for the 2024 OSL Awards is now open! Just like last year, the awards consist of five categories: ‘published scholarly book’, ‘published article’, ‘PhD dissertation’, ‘ReMA thesis’ and ‘valorization‘. The Awards are intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of literary studies and to highlight the work of talented OSL […]

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Ravenstein Winter School: ‘S is for Scholarship: Approaches to Children’s Literature’

September 29, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Where and when: Tilburg, 22-24 January 2025 Organizers: Dr Élodie Malanda (Tilburg University), Dr Vera Veldhuizen (University of Groningen) Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access Credits: 6 ECs. NB: Credits can only be awarded to humanities ReMA and PhD students from Dutch universities. Registration will open 7 October 2024, 9am CET via this […]

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OSL Seminar: Queer Textual Politics

September 28, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

Where and when: Amsterdam | 6 February, 13 February, 20 February, 6 March, 13 March, 20 March and 3 April 2025 (14:00–17:00 CET) Organizer: dr. Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam) Open to: PhDs and ReMA students; OSL members have first access. Credits: 5-6 EC. More details on the assignments will be provided soon. NB: Credits can only […]

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Spinoza Conference 2024: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

September 1, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

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14 November 2024 | Leiden University
The Spinoza Lecture is an annual lecture given in Spanish by a prominent personality of Hispanic literature, organized since 2005 by the Cultural Council of the Spanish Embassy in The Hague and the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht. On this occasion, the Conference will take place at the Hague Campus of the University of Leiden, the city where the Dutch philosopher of Sephardic origin died in 1677 and which will host the event for the first time. The Spinoza Lecture 2024 will be given by the Spanish novelist Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, one of the most respected voices of Hispanic prose of our time, considered by many to be the greatest representative of current realist literature in Spanish.

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OSL Seminar: ‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’

August 23, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

November – December 2024 | University of Groningen and University of Amsterdam
This course addresses the ways in which literature and art, in their generic capacity for multi-perspective representation, reimagine place and agency within the eternal present inaugurated by the end of the Cold War at the turn of the 1990s. This global discourse of contemporaneity was meant to deconstruct the linear progressive time of modernity that dominated the 20th century. However, arrested within such perceptions of new spatio-temporal fluidities of “the contemporary” were the heterogeneous temporalities of decolonization and democratization in societies that had been negotiating the impacts and afterlives of empire and ideological conflicts of the Cold War across the long 20th century.

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OSL Seminar: ‘Writing Extinction and the Planetary Turn’

August 23, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

September – December 2024 | Utrecht University
n this course, we explore this “planetary turn” in fiction and art. We will not only interrogate the affordances of specific forms to postulate futures of hopefulness and resilience in the face of planetary precarity, but also problematize narratives that center Euro-Western histories and experiences or that use deep temporalities to articulate exclusionary settler colonial emergency imaginaries. In addition, we will consider alternative cultural forms that highlight decolonial or other-than-human perspectives.

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OSL Academic Program 2024-2025

July 3, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

The first overview of the OSL academic program for 2024-2025 is now available! For most of the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open on September 2nd, 2024 (more details will be shared in our August newsletter). If you have any questions, you are welcome to send an email to osl@rug.nl. NB: Unless stated […]

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Workshop: Interactive Topic Analysis with Multi-Lingual Embeddings in Communalytic

July 3, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

5 September 2024 | University of Groningen
This hands-on tutorial will introduce users to Communalytic, a research tool developed by the Social Media Lab for studying online communities and discourse. The session will include an overview of Communalytic’s features and a step-by-step guide on using Communalytic’s built-in topic analysis module.

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

July 3, 2024/in News and Events /by Alberto Godioli

September – December 2024 | University of Amsterdam and Leiden University
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.

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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 2024-2025 should be submitted by 15 November 2023.

Proposals for shorter activities (workshops, conferences, masterclasses) should be submitted at least 8 months before the planned date.

NB: The academic programme for 2024-2025 is now full. You are very welcome to submit proposals for 2025-2026.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please fill in this Google Form.

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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
  • 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)

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

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  • Harvard Institute of World Literature
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  • 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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