20 January 2012: The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation
Stephen Spender was himself a fine translator of poetry. By means of this annual prize, The Times and the Stephen Spender Trust hope to encourage and stimulate a new generation of literary translators.
18 January 2012: ALCS Essay Prize Winners
The committee of the ALCS are delighted to congratulate Sophie Reece-Trapp and Dirk Schoenaers on their winning essays in the ALCS Essay Prize for 2011. The two winners each receive £100 and one year’s free membership of the ALCS, which includes a subscription for 2012 to our award-winning academic journal Dutch Crossing, including access to the complete online archive of Dutch Crossing via the publisher’s website.
16 January 2012: Time-travels in politics and literature
A panel discussion with Booker Prize nominee Hisham Matar (Libya) and Abdelkader Benali (the Netherlands), hosted by the Dutch department at UCL on 26 January.
11 January 2012: Literature, Ideas and Society
The next meeting of the seminar LITERATURE, IDEAS & SOCIETY will be held at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB on Wednesday, 25 January 2012, at 5:15 pm. Anne Goldgar (KCL, History) will talk about
'Credit and Value in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands'.
9 December 2011: Ulrich Tiedau in Executive Committee UCML
Ulrich Tiedau, lecturer at the Dutch department at UCL and member of the executive committee of ALCS, has been elected as representative for Area Studies in the Executive Committee of the University Council of Modern Languages.
15 November 2011: De woonplaats van de faam
Op donderdag 15 december om 16.15 uur verdedigt Eddy Verbaan zijn proefschrift getiteld: De woonplaats van de faam. Grondslagen van de stadsbeschrijving in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek. Van het proefschrift verschijnt een handelseditie bij Uitgeverij Verloren.
14 November 2011: Lectures on Translation by Lawrence Venuti and Abdelkader Benali in Nottingham
To mark the launch of the University of Nottingham's new Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University, and Dutch author Abdelkader Benali will give lectures on translation on Thursday 17 November 2011 at 5.15 pm in Clive Granger Building room A48, University Park Campus.
7 November 2011: Low Countries Imprints
The ALCS has made available on this website a thorough survey of pre-1801 Low Countries imprints in the North of England. The survey is compiled by W.A. Kelly. It is a continuation southwards of Kelly's earlier survey of similar materials in Scottish research libraries, published in the ALCS series Crossways. The survey is downloadable from the Online Publications section of this website.
Sheffield is England’s fourth-largest city, situated in South-Yorkshire close to Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham. It is surrounded by a national park: the Peak District. The Department of Germanic Studies is one the largest Dutch sections in the UK in terms of student numbers. For more information about the city and the university: 
Dutch Crossing is a multi-disciplinary scholarly journal, devoted to all aspects of Low Countries studies, and with effect from 1997 has become the journal of the Association for Low Countries Studies.
One of the core activities of the ALCS is to encourage research.
Student days are organised every other year for the benefit of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
