7th Biennial Conference
Beyond Borders
The Dutch-Speaking World in Times of Globalization and (Trans)Nationalism
4 - 5 January 2008
University of Nottingham

Conference Report

The Department of German at the University of Nottingham was delighted to host the 7th biennial conference of the Association of Low Countries Studies in January, 2008, at the University of Nottingham, with the theme “Beyond Borders: The Dutch-speaking world in times of globalization and Trans-Nationalism”. Two plenary papers addressed the notion of Dutch across borders from two very different corners of the Dutch-speaking world, and from two different disciplinary perspectives too. A plenary by the eminent Leuven philosopherRudi VISKER addressed The Philosophy of Multiculturalism, while Lila GOBARDHAN-RAMBOCUS (Instituut voor de Opleiding van Leraren, Paramibo, Suriname) provided a fascinating, accessible and yet scholarly insight into the history of Dutch language education in Suriname, with her paper The Status of Dutch in Suriname . A third plenary by Nottingham University’s own expert on Rubens, Jeremy Wood, told the story of Dutchmen abroad through the history of art, with his paper on the case of Rubens in Spain. The diplomatic gift to the duke of Lerma. Other papers presented ranged from the Middle Ages to the present day, and from linguistics to literature and history.

The ALCS gratefully acknowledges the very generous support of the Nederlandse Taalunie. A selection of the papers presented will appear in the journal Dutch Crossing.

 

Friday, January 4 th, 2008

11.00-11.30 Registration and tea/coffee

11.30-12.15

Plenary Paper Rudi VISKER (KU Leuven)

The Philosophy of Multiculturalism

12.15-1.00

Henriette LOUWERSE ( University of Sheffield)

"Splendid Setting for a Game of Deception". On identity and play in the writing of Hafid Bouazza

1.00-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.30

Cornelia LEUNE ( Universität Oldenburg, Germany)

Welcomed as Strangers? On the reception of migrant writing in the Netherlands

2.30-3.15

Karolina KONONOWICZ ( Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Popular Culture and the Challenges of Modern Multiculturalism. How the Dutch-speaking popular culture (re-)presents transnational questions

3.30

Catch hopper-bus to King's Meadow Campus

4.00-5.30

Coffee + inspection of Dutch material in the University of Nottingham Library (Manuscripts and Archives)

6.00-7.00

Biennial General Meeting of the ALCS

7.00 Conference dinner

 Saturday, January 5 th, 2008

9.00-9.45

Plenary paper Jeremy WOOD ( University of Nottingham)

Rubens in Spain. The diplomatic gift to the duke of Lerma

10.00-10.45

Pieter SCHOONDERWOERD ( Derby)

Screaming from Within without Screamin. Comparing and contrasting Munch’s and Henneman’s artistic visions of a ‘Scream’

Eddy VERBAAN (Universities of Sheffield & Nottingham)

On the banks of the Thames and the New Rhine. Nostalgia and civic duty in early descriptions of London (1598) and Leiden (1614)

10.45-11.30

Presentation by Mart VAN DER ZANDEN

Relating the CNaVT exmination to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)

Nicola McLELLAND (University of Nottingham)

The "father of German grammar" - an honorary DUtchman? Schottelius (1612-1676) in the Dutch intellectual context

11.30-11.45 coffee

11.45-12.30

Plenary paper Lila GOBARDHAN-RAMBOCUS (Instituut voor de Opleiding van Leraren, Paramibo, Suriname)

The Status of Dutch in Suriname

12.30-1.15

Dirk SCHOENAERS (University of Liverpool)

Getranslateert uuten Franssoyse: translations from the French to the Dutch in 15 th-century Holland

 

 

 

1.15-2.15 lunch

 

2.15-3.00

Angela BAGWELL, Robert HOWELL, Tyler LUITEN, Mike OLSON ( University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Immigration and the Development of the Early Modern Dutch Urban Dialects. Where social history and linguistics meet

Elke BREMS (KU Leuven)

The Role of Brussels in recent Dutch literature

3.00-3.45

Roel VISMANS ( University of Sheffield)

Address across the Border. Dutch second-person pronouns in the Year Abroad

Julien VERMEULEN ( Université de Lille III )

Aspects of Cultural Diversity in Present-Day Dutch Prose

 

 

 

 

 

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