The term néerlandophone was coined by literary researchers Sarah de Mul and Elleke Boehmer in 2014 to broaden the scope of what we study when researching the Dutch-speaking world. It has since been adopted by many scholars in a wide variety of fields, particularly in postcolonial perspective. In continued response to this terminological shift, this conference endeavors to move ‘beyond Dutch’ in the Neerlandophone world by bringing together researchers whose work centers not only Dutch, but also the many languages that interact with Dutch, exist (in tension) alongside Dutch, or are translated into or out of Dutch in interpersonal and institutional spaces.

14:00 – 15:00
Registration, greetings, and lunch

15:00 – 15:30 Airs de cour: French to Dutch melodies in the 17th century
Tine de Koninck, Universiteit Antwerpen

15:30 – 16:00 Heterolingualism and intercultural minds in P. F. Thomése’s Izak (2005) and Koen Peeters’ Duizend Heuvels (2012)
Saskia Vanderbussche, Université Catholique de Louvain

16:00 – 16:30 The Oppressive Silence of non-Translation: Absence of Indonesian in Rijksmuseum’s Revolusi!
Lucelle Pardoe, University College London

Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:15 Panel Discussion: Translation in the Curriculum

Various

18:30 – 19:30 Keynote Arnoud Arps, University of Oxford

Colloquium Dinner
20:00