MA Grant
Call for Applications: ALCS Postgraduate Award
Open to MA-Level study and research in Dutch Dutch Language, Literature, History, Art History, Post-Colonial Studies, Politics and Translation Studies.
How to apply for ALCS Research Grants
Members can apply for up to £400 for a personal application and max £500 for a project/conference with institutional backing. Only ALCS Members can apply for an ALCS Research Grant.
About the ALCS
The Association for Low Countries Studies promotes research, spreads everyday awareness of Dutch, Flemish, and Surinamese culture and history, and represents Dutch studies modules and courses across higher education in the UK and Ireland.
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
Dr Adam Sammut, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of History of Art, University of York, was one of the recipients of an ALCS grant of £300.
ALCS Research Grant Recipients
2024 Basil Bowder (St Andrews) Clara Davarpanah (UCL) Adam Sammut (York) 2023 Zinnia Coates (York) Davide Martino (Cambridge) Marja Kingma (British Library) Esther Mijers (Edinburgh) Andreas Hiemstra (Oldenburg) 2022 Adam Sammut (York) Annie Ochmanek (Columbia) Jacob Baxter (St Andrews) 2021 Elise Watson (St Andrews) Davide Martino (Cambridge) 2020 Katherine Roscoe
2023: Beyond Dutch / Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism in the Neerlandophone World
The 2023 ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium welcomes interdisciplinary papers on history, politics, literatures, and lived experiences of multilingualism in the Neerlandophone sphere.
Delta Dialogues - Call for Papers
We invite individual 20-minute papers or themed 1.5-hour panels. The theme is broad and the quality of the proposal is more important than strict adherence to the theme. We welcome in particular contributions from emerging scholars and (creative) practitioners. Full Call for Papers
11th Biennial ALCS Conference
The conference organisers, under the inspiring leadership of Dr John Loughman (UCD), could not have picked a more topical theme: Narrating change, changing narratives acquired that special ring only a week after the EU referendum.
10th Biennial ALCS Conference
10-12 September 2014, University College London Consensus and discord in the Low Countries Hailing from Berkeley, California to Budapest, from Amsterdam to Brussels but above all from all corners of the UK, the ALCS welcomed over forty delegates and speakers to the 10th Biennial Conference at University College London
9th Biennial ALCS Conference: Low Countries, big cities
3-5 April 2012, University of Sheffield In April 2012, we welcomed 38 speakers from six different countries and twenty different institutions in addition to our three keynote speakers Professor Geert Buelens, Professor Wim VandenBussche and Professor Herman Pleij. What was particularly encouraging, apart from our keen undergraduate students, was
8th Biennial ALCS Conference
6-7 January 2010, University College Dublin Communicating, remembering, reconstructing: An interdisciplinary conference for Low Countries studies Report The Eighth Biennial Conference of the ALCS took as its title and theme ‘Communicating, remembering, reconstructing’ - or the effective mediation of linguistic, literary, artistic and scientific cultural assets from the Dutch language
Call for submissions
We are currently accepting submissions for our next ALCS Conference!
Who's Telling the Story of Suriname?
On 9 December 2024, the ALCS and UCL Dutch welcomed Raoul de Jong, author of the award winning novel Jaguarman and of the 2023 Books Week Essay Boto Banja, and writer Karin Amatmoekrim, winner of the Dutch Biography Prize for her biography of Anil Ramdas.
