The 14th ALCS Conference 10-12 July in Edinburgh

For the 14th ALCS Biennial Conference at the University of Edinburgh we are homing in on ‘home’ in a Low Countries context.

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Home is the story of who we are and such a deeply familiar place that it is almost impossible to see it with the eyes of an outsider. We are steeped into home as an idea, a concept, an ideal expressed through objects and representations. After a pandemic in which home gained new prominence, we would like to home in on understanding, remembering, (re)creating, searching for, (re)finding, (re)discovering, challenging, celebrating, home as an idea(l) and as a physical place.

Call for papers (PDF, 193KB)

The (draft) programme

Keynote speakers

Malgorzata Drwal (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 

Jan Willem Duyvendak (NIAS-KNAW and University of Amsterdam) 

Esther Mijers (University of Edinburgh)

Olivia Rutazibwa (London School of Economics)

More information

Registration and accommodation information to follow soon.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in the ALCS journal Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies.

Contact for the Edinburgh conference: homing.in.edinburgh2022@gmail.com

All general enquiries: ALCS@sheffield.ac.uk