Director of the Association for Low Countries Studies in the UK and Ireland. Editor-in-chief for Dutch Crossing, Journal of Low Countries Studies.
Biennial ALCS Conferences
3-5 April 2012, University of Sheffield In April 2012, we welcomed 38 speakers from six different countries and twenty different institutions in addition to our three keynote speakers Professor Geert Buelens, Professor Wim VandenBussche and Professor Herman Pleij. What was particularly encouraging, apart from our keen undergraduate students, was
Biennial ALCS Conferences
6-7 January 2010, University College Dublin Communicating, remembering, reconstructing: An interdisciplinary conference for Low Countries studies Report The Eighth Biennial Conference of the ALCS took as its title and theme ‘Communicating, remembering, reconstructing’ - or the effective mediation of linguistic, literary, artistic and scientific cultural assets from the Dutch language
Biennial ALCS Conferences
We are currently accepting submissions for our next ALCS Conference!
Dutch Centre 9 December 2024
On 9 December 2024, the ALCS and UCL Dutch welcomed Raoul de Jong, author of the award winning novel Jaguarman and of the 2023 Books Week Essay Boto Banja, and writer Karin Amatmoekrim, winner of the Dutch Biography Prize for her biography of Anil Ramdas.
ALCS Prizes in Low Countries Studies
Summer means Prizes! The ALCS Undergraduate Essay Prize was awarded to Sophie Moss (University of Sheffield, in photo) for her essay 'De Holocaust is van ons allemaal! How does Maurits de Bruin's "Ook Mijn Holocaust" challenge Dutch collective memory of the Holocaust?'. The winner
ALCS Prizes in Low Countries Studies
Essay Prize: Rebecca Nelsey This year's ALCS Essay Prize was awarded to Rebecca Nelsey (University of Sheffield) for their essay: “We See What We Did There”: The Successes and Shortcomings of the Acknowledgement of Wrongdoing in Rutte’s Apology for the Role of the Dutch State in the
Sheffield 18 July 2024
As part of our 75 Years of Dutch, we welcomed the ALCS Summer School at Sheffield. Twenty-four students from all over the UK, five language tutors, four guests and many excursions all packed into an exciting week of hard work.
ALCS Prizes in Low Countries Studies
2025 Undergraduate Essay Prize - Sophie Moss (Sheffield) 2025 Postgraduate/Early Career Prize - Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins University) 2024 Undergraduate Essay Prize - Rebecca Nelsey (Sheffield) 2024 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize - Lottie Armett (Sheffield) 2023 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize - Daniel Corcoran (Sheffield) 2023 Undergraduate Essay Prize - Nytia Raghava (UCL) 2022 Undergraduate Essay Prize - Lydia
Biennial ALCS Conferences
10-12 July 2022, University of Edinburgh For the 14th ALCS Biennial Conference at the University of Edinburgh we homed in on ‘home’ in a Low Countries context. Home is the story of who we are and such a deeply familiar place that it is almost impossible to see it
ALCS Research Grants in Low Countries Studies
Elise Watson, PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, received an ALCS Grant to visit a number of archives in Antwerp. She reports on her research.
Online 8-9 July 2021
The Third ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium The Association for Low Countries Studies had its third Postgraduate Colloquium, City Lights.
UCL 6 - 8 November 2019
6-8 November 2019, University College London Worlding the Low Countries As the truism goes, we are all connected, yet research on the worldliness of the Low Countries is still a rather minor fraction of Dutch studies. The ALCS2019 Conference attempts to broaden and encourage this type of research and
UCL houses the oldest centre for Dutch Studies (Neerlandistiek) in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1919, it was the first of its kind in the UK.
With around eighty students on our courses, Dutch Studies at Sheffield is the largest - and probably the most lively - Dutch Studies section in the UK.
Jenny Watson teaches Dutch for Beginners at the University of Edinburgh, a one-year course intended for committed students with little or no previous knowledge of Dutch.
Introduces students to the Dutch language both in its written and spoken form. By the end of the course students will be able to speak and write in Dutch to roughly between GCSE and A-level standard.
Our online and on-campus Dutch evening courses provide real-time lessons with an expert tutor. We can help you improve your Dutch language skills at various levels. Learn more.
Dutch grammar videos produced by Dutch Language and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.
Het online portaal voor iedereen die wereldwijd Nederlands leert, onderwijst, onderzoekt of gebruikt.
Your High Road to culture, history, language, literature, society and the arts in Flanders and the Netherlands.
CODART is an international network for curators of art from the Low Countries. The Codart website is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.
De Taalunie ontwikkelt en stimuleert beleid voor het Nederlands in Nederland, Vlaanderen en Suriname, en ondersteunt het Nederlands in de wereld.
Nederlands in de wereld, de wereld van de neerlandistiek.
AANS is an interdisciplinary organization that promotes the study of the language, literature and culture of the Dutch-speaking world in the United States.
