Forum - Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) (2024)

We are invitingextended proposalsbyJune 10th, 2024
Can we speak of aturnto absence? Across the contemporary academic conjuncture, theory is reapproaching the absent in all its varying fleshly and rhetorical forms, revalorizing ‘absence’ itself as a critical matter. Enduring scholarly investments in re-presenting and re-presencing the absented body (from the archive and media, from power and institutions, from theory and writing) have become supplemented in current critical work by an affirmative interest instaying withabsence as such.

18 & 19 April 2024 | Brechthaus Berlin
On 18 and 19 April 2024, there will be a conference on the work of German writer Helga Schütz at the Brechthaus in Berlin. Helga Schütz, now almost 87 years old, was involved in many DEFA films as a screenwriter and scenarist and is still active as a writer.

23-25 October 2024 | University of Groningen
Deadline: 15 April 2024
This conference will bring together theoretical and methodological developments on Graphic Medicine, as well as practical insights and applications, and hopes to offer a fruitful place for discussion and critical evaluation of the field and its most recent developments and insights.

Application deadline: 15 April 2024
This project is funded by the Christine Mohrmann Foundation at Radboud University to support research initiated by Professor Dr Marjolein Oele, Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities. It is organised around the concept of affectivity (Greek: pathos), which has been crucial to theorising ancient Greek notions of undergoing, suffering, emotion, illness, and qualitative change. In the 20th and 21st centuries, notions of affect and affectivity are at the forefront of research in continental philosophy (e.g. Heidegger, Henry, Irigaray) and affect theory more broadly (e.g. Ahmed, Berlant). The prominence of these concepts is such that scholars even speak of an “affective turn” in the humanities (e.g. Clough and Halley).

Buffels, tijgers en witte mieren. Multatuli en het dierenrijk Symposium donderdag 13 juni 2024, Vrije Universiteit Organisatie Jacqueline Bel, Jaap Grave en Nicky Lagerweij Het werk van Multatuli wordt doorgaans vooral bestudeerd op de aspecten van koloniale problematiek, gelijke behandeling, mensenrechten of vrouwenemancipatie. Een aspect dat tot nu onderbelicht is gebleven, is de rol en […]

Utrecht, The Netherlands
23-25 January 2025 (on-site) & 30-31 January 2025 (online)
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2024
This conference aims to bring together care ethicists; artists, designers, and other makers; artistic researchers; architects and urban planners; philosophers; methodologists; educators; policymakers; and others committed to exploring the fundamental question: what does it mean to care? Scholars and practitioners from all disciplines within and beyond the humanities and social sciences are invited to submit either an abstract (between 250- 300 words) for a 20-minute presentation or a proposal for a work of art/performance on the theme of aesthetics, care, and repair in the context of modern-day society.

In light of the continuous growth of the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, which is now aLarge Research Group (LRG),three new positions have opened up. The deadline for applications for these positions is 08/03/2024.

Applications are now open for the third of the CLS INFRA academic Training School events,“ExploreCor: Using Programmable Corpora in Computational Literary Studies. It is set to take place in Vienna June 10-12 2024, spanning three intensive days.This program covers some of the most important steps in the research cycle of Computational Literary Studies, focusing on “Programmable Corpora” – dynamic collections of literary texts manipulated programmatically.

7 & 8 June 2024 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (hybrid format)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for Lived Experiences, the international two- day PhD conference that takes place in Brussels, Belgium, on June 7th, and online on June 8th, 2024. This conference aims to create a platform for doctoral students specializing in literary studies, literary translation studies, and theatre studies to showcase their research and engage in discussions on the profound impact of personal narratives and lived experiences in shaping creative works. It provides an excellent opportunity for emerging scholars to actively participate in scholarly dialogues, share their findings, and contribute to the broader academic discourse.

Stockholm, 20-22 August 2024 | deadline for applications: 16 February 2024
This conference aims to bring these different strands of twenty-first-century reflection on
literature and ethics together to update the debate on the ethics of literature for the present —
for what can by now uncontroversially be termed “a time of crisis.” In light of environmental,
epidemic, technological, economic, demographic, and geopolitical upheavals, the question of
the ethics of literature may seem peripheral; at the same time, in an age of diminished prospects,
it becomes more urgent than ever to raise questions of what values remain or can be salvaged.
Capitalizing on Theodor W. Adorno’s contention that art’s ‘powerlessness and superfluity in
the empirical world’ make it a paradoxically potent site of ethical and political interrogation,
this conference will focus on the juncture of literature and ethics in the present—in light of
contested pasts and uncertain futures.