Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
Dr Adam Sammut, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of History of Art, University of York, was one of the recipients of an ALCS grant of £300.
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How to apply for ALCS Prizes
The Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland awards yearly Prizes to the best Undergraduate Essay, Undergraduate Dissertation and postgraduate Article written in any area of Low Countries studies.
How to apply for ALCS Research Grants
Members can apply for up to £400 for a personal application and max £500 for a project/conference with institutional backing. Only ALCS Members can apply for an ALCS Research Grant.
ALCS Research Grant Recipients
2024 Basil Bowder (St Andrews) Clara Davarpanah (UCL) Adam Sammut (York) 2023 Zinnia Coates (York) Davide Martino (Cambridge) Marja Kingma (British Library) Esther Mijers (Edinburgh) Andreas Hiemstra (Oldenburg) 2022 Adam Sammut (York) Annie Ochmanek (Columbia) Jacob Baxter (St Andrews) 2021 Elise Watson (St Andrews) Davide Martino (Cambridge) 2020 Katherine Roscoe
Summer Bulletin 2021
2023: Beyond Dutch / Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism in the Neerlandophone World
The 2023 ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium welcomes interdisciplinary papers on history, politics, literatures, and lived experiences of multilingualism in the Neerlandophone sphere.
ALCS Bulletin - Winter 1908
2026 ALCS Dutch Summer School
The 2026 ALCS Dutch Summer School takes place at University College London from 28 June until 4 July 2026. The theme of our 5th edition is 'Meerstemmige steden'.
Delta Dialogues - Call for Papers
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. Full Call for Papers
ALCS 2024 Winter Bulletin
Dear Members of the ALCS, While the nights are still dark and the wild winds coldly blow, we would like to take a moment to look back on the past six months in Dutch and Flemish Studies in the UK. Although reforms and restructurings at academic institutions across the United
11th Biennial ALCS Conference
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.
10th Biennial ALCS Conference
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
9th Biennial ALCS Conference: Low Countries, big cities
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
8th Biennial ALCS Conference
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
Call for submissions
We are currently accepting submissions for our next ALCS Conference!
Dutch Centre 9 December 2024
Who's Telling the Story of Suriname?
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
2025 ALCS Undergraduate Prizes
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
ALCS Prize Winners 2024
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
ALCS Dutch Summer School 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
Previous ALCS Essay & Dissertation Prize Winners
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
14th Biennial ALCS Conference
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
Catholic print in the Dutch Republic: A Low Countries enterprise
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
2021: City Lights / Urban space and civic identity
The Third ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium The Association for Low Countries Studies had its third Postgraduate Colloquium, City Lights.
UCL 6 - 8 November 2019
13th Biennial ALCS Conference
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
