The ALCS promotes the scholarly study of the language, culture, history and society of the Low Countries by organising biennial academic conferences in the UK and Ireland. We accept individual abstracts and panel proposals from reseachers and teachers from all over the world. Our conferences are open to everyone with an interest in Low Countries Studies.
We invite individual 20-minute papers or themed 1.5-hour panels.
The theme is broad and the quality of the proposal is more important than strict adherence to the theme.
We welcome in particular contributions from emerging scholars and (creative) practitioners.
The conference organisers, under the inspiring leadership of Dr John Loughman (UCD), could not have picked a more topical theme: Narrating change, changing narratives acquired that special ring only a week after the EU referendum.
This 11th edition was our most ‘international’ conference to date, attracting speakers from a dozen countries spread over four continents: Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Netherlands, South-Africa, South-Korea, United States, and United Kingdom.
During three days in Dublin, around forty delegates explored how change is represented and narrated in a Low Countries or comparative context and along and across broad cultural, linguistic and historical lines.
The 24 papers and three keynote addresses took the conference theme in many directions:
Our keynote speakers were:
Full conference programme (PDF, 338KB)
Selected papers will be included in an edited book in the Low Countries Series of UCLPress or in the ALCS Journal: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
This event was kindly sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie.
Biennial ALCS Conferences
10-12 September 2014, University College London Consensus and discord in the Low Countries Hailing from Berkeley, California to Budapest, from Amsterdam to Brussels but above all from all corners of the UK, the ALCS welcomed over forty delegates and speakers to the 10th Biennial Conference at University College London
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!
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
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
Nottingham 5 - 7 January 2008
Beyond borders: The Dutch-speaking world in times of globalisation and (trans)nationalism.
Biennial ALCS Conferences
5-7 January 2006, University College London Trading cultures ALCS organises a conference every two years. The conference is open to people from all corners of the globe engaged in Low Countries studies and provides an opportunity to demonstrate and discuss current research. It is also a platform for exchange
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