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Training programme 2023-2024
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Winter School ‘Sustainability and Literature’
- Hermes Summer School ‘Narrating Degrowth and Sustainability: Cultural Imaginaries and the 4th Industrial Revolution’
Seminars and Courses:
- OSL Skills Course ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’
- OSL Seminar ‘Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures’
- International Blended Seminar ‘War in European Memory’
- OSL Seminar ‘Queer Textual Politics’
- OSL Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers: Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- OSL Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing’
- OSL Seminar ‘Computational Literary Studies’
Workshops and Conferences:
- Urban Lives: Amsterdam Diaries and Other Stories of the Self
- OSL Workshop: Introduction to Digital Philology
Other OSL Activities
- OSL Research Day and Masterclass “How Not to Talk About Experience” with Prof. Rita Felski
- Online lecture by Prof. Marco Caracciolo: ‘Short Forms and Uncertain Times in Climate Change Fiction’
- Book presentation: “Remembering Transitions” by Ksenia Robbe & Pablo Valdivia
- OSL Masterclass ‘Literature/Comics Crossroads: Genres, Forms, Narratives’
- OSL Symposium ‘Genre and Gender Bending in Trans* Literature’
- OSL Symposium ‘Dutch Colonialism and Its Afterlives: Anglophone Literary Perspectives’
- OSL Day: Health Humanities in Practice
- OSL PhD Day
- AGAINST EXTINCTION: A Symposium, Festival, and Proposition
OSL Related Activities
- Institute of World Literature Summer Program
Training programme 2022-2023
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School): ‘New Perspectives on the Novel: Histories, Forms, Representations’
- Hermes Summer School: Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities
Seminars and Courses:
- OSL Seminar: ‘Eco-Collapse in Transatlantic Perspective’
- OSL Seminar: ‘Africa Beyond “Africa”‘
- OSL Skills Course: ‘Fiction: A Practitioner’s Guide’
- International Blended Seminar ‘War in European Memory’
- Laughing Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humor and Society
- OSL Course: Forms of Postcolonial and Postsocialist Time: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures
- Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing’
- OSL Skills Course Computational Literary Studies
Workshops and Conferences:
- OSL Workshop ‘Regional Literature in Transnational Contexts’
- OSL Symposium ‘Lifting the Veil: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural’
Other OSL Activities
- OSL Research Day
- What Next? Life After Your ReMA/PhD
- OSL Awards 2022
- OSL Research Incubator
- OSL Seed Money
- OSL PhD day: Literary Studies: Tools of the Trade
- OSL lecture: Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University) – Global Easts as a Problem Space
OSL Related Activities
Training programme 2021-2022
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar 2022: Literature, (Neo)liberalism, and Public Culture
- Summer School: Literature and the Digital Humanities
- Hermes Summer School
Seminars and Courses:
- OSL Seminar: Europe as narrative
- OSL Seminar How We Read: Interpretation, Relation, Mediation
- OSL Schrijfcursus: Framen, Schrappen en Herschrijven
- OSL Course: Introduction to Digital Philology
- OSL Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Life writing
- OSL Course: Computational Literary Studies
- OSL Skills Course: Creative Non-Fiction Writing
Workshops and Conferences:
- OSL Symposium: Decentering Narratives in Latin America
- OSL Workshop: Eternal Presents and Resurfacing Futures: Postcolonial/Postsocialist Dynamics of Time and Memory in Literature and Art
- OSL Workshop: Women and Transnational Modernisms
Other OSL Activities
- OSL Symposium: New Perspectives on Literature and the Brain
- OSL PhD day: Making Stories Work
- OSL Workshop: How Not to Write a Novel
- Oceans as Archives Conference
Training programme 2020-2021
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School) ‘Literature, Language and Belonging‘
- Hermes Summer School
- Summer School: Literature and the Digital Humanities
Seminars and Courses:
- Seminar ‘Africa beyond “Africa”: Literary explorations’
- Creative Writing Course ‘Poetics: A Practitioner’s Guide’
- Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing’
- Course Computational Literary Studies
- OSL/NICA Symposium: Posthuman Futures in Literature and Art
Workshops and Conferences:
- PhD Workshop: Generalizations, Hypotheses, Evidence in Literary Studies
- Workshop with David Alworth: Literature and the Social
- Workshop: From Crisis to Critique: Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
- NISIS/OSL Workshop: Muslim Worlds / World Literatures
- Workshop: How Not to Write a Novel
Other OSL Activities
- Masterclass with Philipp Blom
- Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation
- De kunst van het boekomslag
- Book Presentation: Christel N. Temple, Black Cultural Mythology
- Masterclass with prof. Rita Felski – “Comparison and (Post)critique. Method and Engagement in Literary Studies”
- 2020 OSL Awards: The Winners
- Institute for World Literature: 2021 Program
- OSL Research Day Seed Money and OSL Awards
- Online Symposium: The Human in Digital Humanities
OSL Related Activities
- New Regularization Law in Colombia: Event with Pablo Valdivia
- Active Learning and Perusall: Lecture by Eric Mazur (Harvard) and Pablo Valdivia (OSL)
- Narratives of Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation
- Useful resources for online teaching
- OSL joins the Institute for World Literature (IWL)
Training programme 2019-2020
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School) ‘War, Literature and Law’
- Hermes Summer School ‘Space, Affect, Memory’
- Harvard Institute of World Literature: Summer Programme
Seminars and Courses:
- Seminar ‘Europe as Narrative’
- Creative Writing Course ‘Poetics: A Practitioner’s Guide’
- Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing’
- Course Computational Literary Studies
- Seminar ‘Literature between the State and the Market’
Workshops and Conferences:
- OSL Research Day
- Workshop ‘(Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique’
- Conference ‘Stranger Things: Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture’
- Workshop ‘Cultural Branding’
- Masterclass ‘Speculative Ecologies: Turning the Human(ities) Inside Out’
Other OSL Activities
- Studiedag Stichting Psychoanalyse en Cultuur
- OSL Research Day (11 October 2019, Groningen)
- OSL Awards 2019
- 2019 OSL Awards: The Winners
Training programme 2018-2019
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School) ‘Memory Studies and Materiality’
- Hermes Summer School ‘Passages: Metaphors, Narratives and Concepts’
Seminars and Courses:
- Seminar ‘New Perspectives on African Literature’
- Seminar ‘Postcolonial Remembrances: Violence and Identity in Literature and Film’
- Deleuze Seminar ‘Matters of Life and Death’
- Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- Seminar ‘Contemporary Debates in Life Writing”
- Course ‘Computational Literary Studies
- Seminar ‘Naming the World: Realism Travels the Globe
Lectures by:
Other OSL Activities
- OSL Research Day – Oct 12, 2018 (Groningen)
- The OSL Award winners 2018
- European Literature Night 2019
- OSL Award
Training programme 2017-2018
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar (Winter School 2018) – Literature, Affect and Emotion
- Hermes 2018 Summer School: Vulnerability
Seminars:
- Deleuze & How to Live the Anti-Fascist Life and Endure the Pain
- OSL Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, schrappen en herschrijven
- Violence and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Film: Cultural Remembrances
- OSL Seminar Literature & Diversity: New Approaches to the Study of Cultural Representation
- Creative Writing: Practice, Research and Reflection
- Course – Computational Literary Studies
Masterclasses with:
Conference:
- Conference – Anderswo im Anderswann: Autofiktion als Utopie (March 21-23, 2018)
- Conference on Frisian Humanities
- Conference – Achter de verhalen: De terugkeer van de geschiedenis
Training / Workshop:
- Workshop – Animal Minds between Narrative and Cognition (Dec 6, SMART Animals conference, Amsterdam)
- Utopia across Cultures: A Workshop
- Workshop ‘Literature, fieldwork, and the social sciences’
Lectures by:
- Lecture and discussion – Angus Nicholls: ‘Scientific’ Literary Studies During the Late Nineteenth Century and Today: A Critical Overview
- Lecture – Neil ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto)
Training programme 2016-2017
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar on Ecocriticism – Keynote lectures by Graham Huggan, Isabel Hoving and Kate Marshall (Jan 26 & 27)
- Hermes Summer School – Literature and Art in context (Aarhus 2017)
Seminars:
- OSL Seminar: The Spatial Turn and Beyond: New Perspectives on Literature and Space
- Course Creative Writing: Practice, Research and Reflection
- Deleuze Seminar 2016-2017: Deleuze & Fascism
- The Future Continent: Perspectives on Contemporary African Literature
- OSL Schrijfcursus voor geesteswetenschappers – Framen, Schrappen en Herschrijven
- OSL Course: Computational Literary Studies
Masterclasses with:
- Masterclass with Dr Cecilia Rossi – Literary Translation and Creative Writing
- Masterclass with Prof. Rosanne Kennedy – Testimony
- ACLA Pre-conference Masterclasses on Memory, New Materialism, Human Rights and Decolonized Humanism
Conference:
- Conference – Life writing and European Identities (A.S. Byatt) On the occasion of the awarding of the Erasmus Prize 2016 to A.S. Byatt
- Conference – Puzzling Europe, Literary, Political and Linguistic Perspectives on a Fragmented Continent
Training / Workshop:
- De academicus als Bloemlezer – Workshop contemporaine Nederlandstalige poëzie
- Onderzoekstutorial – Hoe is het om patiënt te zijn? Verhalen in de geneeskunde, de psychologie en de geesteswetenschappen
- Workshop – Literary Representations of Violence
Lectures by:
- Lecture and symposium – Marlene van Niekerk: A poetics for the Anthropocene
- SMART Lecture – Marco Caracciolo: Narrative Beyond Anthropocentrism: Embodying the Nonhuman
Other:
Training programme 2015-2016
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Seminar 2016: (Winter School) Cultural Hierarchies (27-29 januari 2016)
- HERMES Summer School: Contemporary Perspectives on Media and Genre Interactions (12-16 juni Leuven)
- ESSCS 2016 European Summer School for Cultural Studies (ESSCS) on Legibility (20-24 juni 2016)
Seminars:
- OSL Electives
- OSL Seminar: Literature and Ethics (oktober – december, 2015)
- Course Creative Writing: Practice, Research and Reflection (oktober – december 2015)
- Deleuze Seminar 2015-2016: Deleuze & Nature (oktober – december 2015)
Masterclasses with:
- Prof. Roger Sabin (Central St. Martins London) and Prof. Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow): How to Analyze Image-Texts (14 april 2016)
Conference:
- Reading the Present through the Past: Forms and Trajectories of Neo-Historical Fiction (4 maart 2016)
- Worlding the Brain: Patterns, Rhythms and Narratives in Neuroscience and the Humanities (17-19 maart Amsterdam)
Training / Workshop:
- Newsroom V – Corina Koolen: The Gender Factor in Judging Literary Quality – a Quantitative Approach (27 november 2015)
- Computational Literary Studies (maart- april 2017)
- Newsroom VI – Huisman & Van der Meer: Autobiografische tekst & context (27 mei 2106)
Lectures by:
- Prof. dr Derek Attridge (University of York): ‘A Cat Isn’t a Set of Questions’: Reason and Ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction (4 december 2015)
- Prof. dr Jacob Lothe (University of Oslo): Authority and Reliability (11 december 2015)
- Prof. A. Nünning: Forms and Functions of Narrative Worldmaking (12 januari 2016)
- Prof. Joseph Slaughter on Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism and the End of the Third World (25 april 2016)
- Prof. Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo):Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing (3 juni 2016
Other
- OSL General Meeting and Research Day (12 januari 2016)
Training programme 2014-2015
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein 2015: Reading and Readerships: Evolutions of the Literary Experience (21-23 January 15)
- HERMES 2015: Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age of Cultural Studies and New Media (14-19 June 15)
Seminars:
- Deleuze and the New Humanities (10 sessions) (September 14-June 15)
- OSL Seminar 2014-15: Poetics of Knowledge (February 14 -May 15)
Masterclasses with:
- Prof. Gregory Jusdanis (Ohio State University) (Symposium and masterclass ): Why Literature? Parabasis, Friendship, Empathy and the Future of Literary Studies (23 April 15)
- Prof. Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi: The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies (5 June 15)
Conference
- Conference Games and Literary Theory (20-21 November 14)
- Amsterdam Comics Conference (1-3 July 15)
Training / Workshop
- OSL Electives 2014-215
- PhD Newsroom II: The Roaring Thirties (25 September 14)
- Workshop Emotion and Subjectivity, 1300-1900 (with NIAS) (29-30 September 14)
- PhD Newsroom III: Poetics and Politics of National Identity (28 November 14)
- Terra Critica Reading Room: Critique in the SF Mode (December – May 14-15)
- Computational Literary Studies (March-June 15)
- PhD Newsroom IV – Uitgeverijonderzoek tussen cultuur en commercie (13 May 15)
Lectures by:
- Keynote Lecture – Prof. dr Sandra Ponzanesi: The Political Economy of Postcolonial Studies (5 June 15)
Training programme 2013-2014
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein Winter School: Materiality of Literature (5-7 February 14)
- HERMES Summer School – Helsinki: Reading Reconsidered (8-13 June 14)
Seminars:
- Seminar Stefan Hertmans, ‘Wat winnen we wanneer we verliezen? Humanisme en de snelle samenleving’ (19 September 2013)
- Fields, Graphs and Networks: New Sociologies of Literature (October 2013 – February 2014)
- Graduate Seminar on Gilles Deleuze and Cultural Studies (September 2013 – May 2014)
Masterclasses with:
- Masterclass Ato Quayson (4 October 2013)
- Masterclass Christian Moraru: The Planetary Remaking of Cultural Studies (14 May 14)
- Masterclass Mark Roche: Idealism as an Option for Literary Criticism Today (18 June 14)
Conference
- Conference The return of the narrative/ Le retour à la narration (16-17 January 14)
Training / Workshop
- Terra Critica II: Second Workshop of the International Network of the Critical Humanities (22 – 23 November 2013)
- Workshop Auteurschap & celebrity (31 January 14)
- Course Computational Literary Studies (6 meetings) (3 February – 28 April 14)
- PhD Newsroom I: Violence and Empathy (25 April 14)
Lectures by:
- Lecture Conal Condren: ‘The Garden Scene in Shakespeare’s Richard III. As Fiction of State’ (12 September 2013)
- Lecture Ato Quayson: ‘Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary’ (7 October 2013)
- Lecture Joshua Kotin: What Would Thoreau Do? (27 February 14)
Training programme 2012 – 2013
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Ravenstein semimar – Writing Novels, Writing Lives, Writing Continents
- New Worlds, New Literatures, New Critiques, (Hermes Consortium Seminar at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
June 9-14, 2013)
Seminars:
- It’s all about discourse! Discourse analysis in het hedendaagse literatuuronderzoek. Organized by Marguérite Corporaal and Marieke Winkler (Amsterdam, September 2012-January 2013)
- Eco-Poco: The Ecocritical Turn Through Postcolonial Eyes (In collaboration with the Platform for Postcolonial Reading and NICA, Amsterdam, 27 January 2012)
Masterclasses with:
- Réda Bensmaïa (26 October 2012)
- Dominique Maingueneau (Sorbonne), Discourse analysis conference (22 March 2013)
Conference
- Book Presence in a Digital Age (Organized by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, in collaboration with NWO, Utrecht, 28-30 mei)
- Worth a thousand Words: At the Intersection of Literature and the Visual Arts (Organized by Astrid Bracke and Dennis Kersten in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen, October 24-26, Nijmegen).
- CROSS-OVER 2013 – Over grenzen. International Conference (Vakgroep Letterkunde (UGent) i.s.m. Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies. February 8 2013 Gent, Belgium.)
Training
Lectures by:
- Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University) Date:Thursday, (15 October 25, 2012)
- Tabitha Sparks, Psychological Sensation: Victorian Fiction’s Lost Genre (7 March, 2013)
Training programme 2011 – 2012
Masterclasses with:
- Emily Apter, organized by Birgit Kaiser, 21 June 2011 (1 EC)
- Greg Lambert, organized by Rosi Braidotti and Anneke Smelik, 14 October 2011 (1 EC)
- Helmut Lethen, organized by Daan Rutten, 22 September 2011 (1 EC)
Seminars:
- The Century of the Self, organized by Daan Rutten and Peter Verstraten, September-December 2011 (2 EC)
- Ontologies of the Present, organized by Geert Jan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdamgt and Bram Ieven, March-June 2012 (2 EC)
- Deleuze Seminar, in collaboration with the Netherlands Research School for Gender Studies, organized by Anneke Smelik and Rosi Braidotti
Summer and Winter Schools:
- Literature in/and/of Crisis, organized by Suzanne Fagel, Willemijn van der linden, Daan Rutten, Geert Jan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdamgt, 23-27 January 2012 (5 EC)
- Impact and Intervention, organized by Gaston Franssen and Thomas Vaessens, 10-16 June 2012 (5 EC)
Workshop:
- Does Memory Have a History, in collaboration with the Research School for Medieval Studies. Organized by Truus van Bueren, Dennis Kersten, Liedeke Plate, Ann Rigney and Els Rose, 18 November 2011 (3 EC)
Expert Meetings:
- Think Big. The OSL 10.000.000,- euros conference. Organized by Thomas Vaessens, 4 November 2011
- Latin American Literature Symposium. Organized by Luz Rodriguez, September 29th– October 1st, 2011
- Postcolonial Platform: Mediterranean revolutions. Organized by Isabel Hoving e.a., October 28th 2011