2017: Telling stories
The Second ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium
London, 6-7 July 2017
Postgraduate students of Dutch and Flemish history, literature, translation studies and sociology came together for the second edition of the ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium.
This international meeting is designed to foster links between British and Irish Low Countries Studies and scholars from other countries, and to support the next generation of researchers in our field.
The conference took place in the medium of English and we welcomed anyone with a curiosity about the Netherlands and Flanders, or any of the topics up for discussion.
This year’s papers were particularly exciting, with strong themes of identity, ideology and transnationality emerging. The keynote was given by our chair, Henriette Louwerse (University of Sheffield).
The conference fee of £15 was payable by those receiving research funding or in full-time work. We welcomed all students and unwaged researchers to join free of charge.
Programme
Senate House, London
Senate House, London
Thursday 6 July
9.30-10am: Arrival and registration
10am-11am
Keynote, Henriette Louwerse (University of Sheffield): Multicultural present and colonial past: The case of the Netherlands
11am-11.30am: Coffee
11.30-1pm
Panel 1 Chair: Nick Piercey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Rianti D Manullang (University of Leiden): The stories of indigenous bataks in sumatra through the ‘Imperial Eyes’ of the colonial travelers
Paola Gentile (KU Leuven): The image of the Netherlands in Italian literary translation - A socio-imagological approach
1pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3pm
Panel 2 Chair: Marja Kingma (British Library)
Zsuzsa Toth (University of Debrecen): The reception of Jo van Ammers-Küller by the Hungarian press in the first half of the 20th century
Cristina Peligra (Newcastle University): Re-presenting identity and colonial legacy. Comparing English and Italian translations of Hella Haasse’s “Indische Romans”
3pm-3.30pm
Research training and Q&A introduction to the British Library Dutch Collections by Marja Kingma
3.30-3.45pm: Coffee
3.45-4.45pm
Panel 3 Chair: Henriette Louwerse
Cyd Sturgess (University of Sheffield): Fashioning queer femininities in Josine Reulin’s Terug naar het eiland (1937)
Joske van de Vis (University of Leiden): The Bakhtian analysis of Tonnus Oosterhoff’s digital poems
5pm-7pm
Free excursion (details to follow)
7pm: Dinner (optional, self-funded)
Friday 7 July
9.30am-10am
Coffee
10am-11.30am
Panel 4 Chair
Carmen Verhoeven (Utrecht University): Divided by Mars, united by Rhetorica: Concord and discord on the Mechelen rhetorician contest of 1620
Marion Prinse: Processes of radicalisation in pre-WWI Flemish nationalist literature
11.30am-12.30pm
Activity
12.30pm-1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm-2.30pm
Panel 6 Chair: Cyd Sturgess (University of Sheffield)
Karen van Hove (KU Leuven): Pornography, yes or no? Literary and pornographic interactions
Jenny Watson (University of Sheffield): Father literature - A transnational trend, a trans-temporal phenomenon?
2.30pm-4pm
Workshop/postgrad training: Questioning the canon, building the discipline
4pm-6pm
Close and drinks (optional, self-funded)
