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.

How to apply for ALCS Prizes

The Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland awards yearly Prizes to the best Undergraduate Essay, Undergraduate Dissertation and postgraduate Article written in any area of Low Countries 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. 

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.

2026 ALCS Dutch Summer School

The 2026 ALCS Dutch Summer School takes place at University College London from 28 June until 4 July 2026. The theme of our 5th edition is 'Meerstemmige steden'. 

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