Biennial ALCS Conferences
Delta Dialogues: Looking Back
16th Biennial Conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS) 22–24 June 2026 | University of York, UK
Biennial ALCS Conferences
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.
York 22 - 24 June 2026
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
Dublin 29 June - 1 July 2016
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.
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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
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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
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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
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Call for submissions
We are currently accepting submissions for our next ALCS Conference!
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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
UCL 6 - 8 November 2019
13th Biennial ALCS Conference: Worlding the Low Countries
6-8 November 2019, University College London 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 wishes to world the
Nottingham 5 - 7 January 2008
7th Biennial ALCS Conference
Beyond borders: The Dutch-speaking world in times of globalisation and (trans)nationalism.
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6th Biennial ALCS Conference
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
