Low Countries, Big Cities


9th Biennial Conference Sheffield

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Conference programme

3 April 20124 April 20125 April 2012

Opening Day
16.00 - 17.00 (Graves Art Gallery)

Conference Registration

Opportunity to visit Graves Art Gallery

17.00 - 18.00 (Graves Art Gallery)

Welcome and Opening

Lord Mayor of the City of Sheffield, Councillor Dr Sylvia Dunkley
Prof Neil Bermel, Head of School of Modern Language at University of Sheffield
Maya Rispens, Representative of the Dutch Language Union

Opening Speaker: Prof. Geert Buelens
A World-Wise Case of Dutchness. Cosmopolitanism as/and National Identity in the Work of The Nits

18.00 (Millenium Gallery, Arundel Room)

Drinks reception
This reception is kindly offered by the Embassy of the Netherlands and Flemish House, London

Dinner own arrangements

Session 1 (Middleton) Session 2 (Johnson) Session 3 (Ennis)
09.00 - 09.30 (Halifax Hall)

Coffee and late registration

9.30 - 11.00

Historic Representation of the City

Chair: Eddy Verbaan

Tim Baycroft
War and Industry: Lille at the cross-roads

Lotte Jensen
The City as Symbol of National Power: Representations of Amsterdam in Dutch Resistance Literature, 1806-1813

Siobhan Higgins
‘The Stranger’s Case’ : Images of the Dutch in Elizabethan and Jacobean London.

9.30 - 11.00

City and Language

Chair: Wim Vandenbussche

Jacomine Nortier and Margreet Dorleijn
Relschoppers in Utrecht: urban youth speech styles on youtube.com

Nicola Mclelland
17th and 18th-century language learning manuals as sources for the history of spoken urban Dutch?

Daniel Williams
Can your accent affect how you hear Dutch?

9.30 - 11.00
City, Fashion and Music

Chair: Andrew Wormald

Joe Snape
Stadsklank: Listening to cultural identity in the Dutch urban environment

Bert Robberechts
Flemish Rap: the representation of city and region in Flemish hiphop

Nathaniel Beard
Modestad: Stylish Encounters in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Arnhem

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Surviving the City: Pedagogy

Gerdi Quist (Panel Convener)
Complex lives and mobile contexts: language learning for the work place

Christine Sas
Integrating language variety in the Dutch classroom

Emmeline Besamusca
The urban perspective amongst students of Dutch

11.30 - 13.00

Creative Cities

Javier Gimeno Martínez (Panel Convener)
Selling Avant-garde: How Antwerp Became a Fashion Capital (1990-2002)

Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz
Eindhoven: from Periphery to Center of the Dutch Design Map

Nina Serulus
Design and the Capital of Europe: the Design Centre in Brussels 1964-1986

11.30 - 13.00

The Varied Tale of Cities

Chair: Catherine Moir

Christina Lister
Norwich and the Low Countries. Tale of many cities

Alan Scott
Innovation and conservatism in the language of city-dwellers in early modern Dutch


Christophe Declercq and William Mann
Brittleness and resilience in Flanders’ urban landscape

 

13.00 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 14.15 (Halifax Hall, Middleton)

Annual General Meeting of the Association of Low Countries Studies

14.30 - 15.30 (Halifax Hall, Middleton)

Plenary session Prof. Wim Vandenbussche
"Maybe nothing is entirely true, and not even that." Myth, ideology and selective attention in the historiography of Dutch in the Southern Low Countries.

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee

16.00 - 17.30

City and Society

Chair: Michael Perraudin

Janet Tyson
Imaginary cities: The city as bourgeois construct in Early Netherlandish painting and in René Magritte’s oeuvre

Graeme Callister
The City and the Creation of the Revolutionary Dutch Nation, 1780-1800

16.00 - 17.30

The City in Writing

Chair: Jane Fenoulhet

Roel Griffioen
The Glass House. Conflicting notions of transparency in the Dutch post-war city

Femke Essink
Countercultural Amsterdam: 1969 – 2011. Contemporary Adaptations of Dutch Canonical Novels from the Sixties


Evening Programme

 

18.30 (Workstation, Paternoster Row)

Conference Dinner and Presentation of citybooks Sheffield
With poetry reading by Helen Mort, Agnes Lehozcky and Sheffield students of Dutch, Christina
Barningham, Victoria Beardwood, Charles Macdonald-Jones and Louise Snape.
Exhibition of David Bocking’s images of Sheffield, and Dominic Green will talk about his city-one-minute
project.
Introduction: Willem Bongers-Dek (deBuren)

Session 1 (Middleton) Session 2 (Johnson)
09.30 - 10.30

Plenary session Prof. Herman Pleij
Merchandising as Motto? The urban origins of modern Dutch mentality

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee

11.00 - 12.30

Theatre and the City in the 16th Century

Elsa Strietman (Panel Convener)
Cities and Minds under Siege in Sixteenth-Century Drama

Arjan van Dixhoorn
The Playful Community as Research Community in the Early Modern Low Countries

Jeroen J.M. Vandommele
Making Profit Presentable: Homo Economicus versus Homo Faber in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

11.00 - 12.30

City and Literature

Chair: Geert Buelens

Kris Steyaert
Batavia as ‘Patria’: Literary Representations of Batavia in W.J. Hofdijk’s work

Arnold Lubbers
Reading in cities and towns. The spread of book clubs in the Netherlands in the early nineteenth century

Liesbeth Minnaard
The Postcolonial Flaneur. Ramsey Nasr’s Antwerpse stadsgedichten

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30 - 15.00

(Post)Colonial and Multicultural City

Chair: Henriette Louwerse

Jenny Watson and Richard McClelland
Het kerkhof der Europeanen: Representations of colonial Jakarta

Marco Prandoni
Perceptions of Dutch cities in Dutch-Moroccan literature

13.30 - 15.00

Urban Representations in the 17th Century

Eddy Verbaan (Panel Convener)
“Order is the Mother of Memory”: The Case of Dirck van Bleyswijck’s Description of the City of Delft (1667-1680)

Raingard Esser
"Crisis? What Crisis?" - Antwerp's Indian Summer through Jesuit eyes

Marianne Eekhout
The Revolt Revisited. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in urban history writing.

 

15.00 - 15.30

Tea

15.30 - 16.30 (Middleton)

Marja Kingma (Curator Dutch Collections British Library)