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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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
The 2023 ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium welcomes interdisciplinary papers on history, politics, literatures, and lived experiences of multilingualism in the Neerlandophone sphere.
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'.
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
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.
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
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
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
We are currently accepting submissions for our next ALCS Conference!
UCL houses the oldest centre for Dutch Studies (Neerlandistiek) in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1919, it was the first of its kind in the UK.
With around eighty students on our courses, Dutch Studies at Sheffield is the largest - and probably the most lively - Dutch Studies section in the UK.
Jenny Watson teaches Dutch for Beginners at the University of Edinburgh, a one-year course intended for committed students with little or no previous knowledge of Dutch.
Introduces students to the Dutch language both in its written and spoken form. By the end of the course students will be able to speak and write in Dutch to roughly between GCSE and A-level standard.
Our online and on-campus Dutch evening courses provide real-time lessons with an expert tutor. We can help you improve your Dutch language skills at various levels. Learn more.
Dutch grammar videos produced by Dutch Language and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.
Het online portaal voor iedereen die wereldwijd Nederlands leert, onderwijst, onderzoekt of gebruikt.
Your High Road to culture, history, language, literature, society and the arts in Flanders and the Netherlands.
CODART is an international network for curators of art from the Low Countries. The Codart website is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.
De Taalunie ontwikkelt en stimuleert beleid voor het Nederlands in Nederland, Vlaanderen en Suriname, en ondersteunt het Nederlands in de wereld.
Nederlands in de wereld, de wereld van de neerlandistiek.
AANS is an interdisciplinary organization that promotes the study of the language, literature and culture of the Dutch-speaking world in the United States.
