University of Sheffield June 2018

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1 28-30 June th Biennial Conference on Low Countries Studies Photo: David Bocking ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 1 22/06/ :35

2 Conference Programme 12th Biennial Conference Welcome to the For the 12th Association for Low Countries Studies Biennial Conference over thirty speakers from four continents and ten countries are flocking to Sheffield to map, analyse and discuss the broad theme of Picturing Reality. Our speakers look at how, why and for whom reality is shaped, perceived and represented and how these representations impact on self-image, national stories and language status. All this in a Low Countries context. Picturing Reality may have a contemporary ring to it, but the breadth of our contributions proves it is a theme for all times. Among the historical realities we encounter are seventeenth-century comic theatre as a vehicle for social criticism; Polish views on the Dutch Republic as a military power; and the realities of queer women in Dutch novels between 1928 and On Friday night we will see how the wife of a fisherman pictures reality in the early modern play The Farce of the Fisherman. Two more realities confront us. On the up side, we will celebrate 70 Years of Dutch Studies at the University of Sheffield during our festive dinner in Weston Park Museum. What started modestly in 1948 as an option for students of German has grown into the largest Dutch Section in terms of student numbers in the Anglophone world. The final reality we have to face is the state of Dutch Studies in the UK and Ireland. During the conference, the ALCS will present its fresh report on the provision of Dutch and Dutch Studies. Its conclusions and recommendations will be examined during a round table discussion and in de wandelgangen. The 12th ALCS Conference is generously sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie, the Dutch Embassy and Flanders House. We are grateful for their continued support. We wish you all an inspiring conference. The ALCS Conference Committee Anna Geurts Henriette Louwerse Jenny Watson ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 2 22/06/ :35

3 Thursday 28 June 2018 Conference Programme Workshop Lunch and Workshop for Tutors of Dutch Vera de Bot (Universiteit van Amsterdam) (Jessop West, Room G.03) Registration ALCS Conference Picturing Reality From (Firth Court, Council Room) Opening of the Conference Welcome and Opening Susan Fitzmaurice () Brechje Schwachöfer (Embassy of the Netherlands) Ingrid Degraeve (Nederlandse Taalunie) Henriette Louwerse (ALCS and ) (Firth Court, Council Room) Plenary Speaker: Lotte Jensen Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Picturing Reality? Singing about Natural Disasters in the Netherlands in the Early Modern Period Drinks reception Kindly offered by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Conference Dinner and Celebration of 70 Years of Dutch at Sheffield Speaker: Michael Perraudin () for (Weston Park Museum) ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 3 22/06/ :35

4 Conference Programme Friday 29 June 2018 Registration and Coffee/Tea and Pastries Morning Session 1 (High Tor 3) Morning Session 2 (High Tor 4) Picturing Society Chair: Michael Perraudin Picturing Language and Authority Chair: Roel Vismans Johanna Ferket Universiteit Antwerpen Changing Social Criticism in Seventeenth-Century Comic Theatre of the Low Countries Femke Essink Universiteit van Amsterdam The Effect of Literary Fiction on the Dutch Sexual Self-Image: Harry Mulisch Twee vrouwen Henriette Louwerse The State of the Nation: Tommy Wieringa s De heilige Rita Jenny Watson Fatherhood between Postwar and Postcolonial Memory Reglindis de Ridder Stockholms Universitet The Flemish Public Service Broadcaster s Subtitles and the Status of Belgian Dutch ( Flemish ) Christine Sas University College London The Sense and Nonsense of Grammar Teaching Coffee/Tea Picturing (for) the Other Chair: Cyd Sturgess Picturing Contact and Transmission Chair: Christine Sas Duco van Oostrum Wij Slaven in the Context of African-American Articulations of Cultural Identity Bahareh Mehrabi UAM Poznaniu Kader Abdolah: Picturing Iran for an International Audience Liesbeth Minnaard Universiteit Leiden Heb je dat, betrokken blanke wereldburger? Refugees, Compassion and Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer Paola Gentile KU Leuven Where Fiction Meets Reality: The Changing Image of the Low Countries in the Italian Translation of Dutch-language literature Anna Geurts University of Nottingham The Triple Survival of Neel Doff s Keetje Paul Demets Hogeschool Gent Paul Snoek: Self-Presentation in Image and Text ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 4 22/06/ :35

5 Friday 29 June 2018 Conference Programme Lunch Plenary Speaker: Kevin Absillis Universiteit Antwerpen Forgotten Pictures: On Flemishness and the Other Chair: Filip De Ceuster (High Tor 2) Coffee/Tea Afternoon Session 1 (High Tor 3) Afternoon Session 2 (High Tor 4) Picturing Gender and Genre Chair: Jenny Watson Image and Text Chair: Filip Deceuster Hans Demeyer University College London Protest in the Sixties: Gender and Genre; Ambiguity and Pedagogy Marieke Winkler Open Universiteit Revisiting Neo-Realism Cyd Sturgess Zij was blij dat zij vrouw was, zij wilde niets anders zijn dan vrouw : Depicting the Realities of Queer Female Experience in Dutch Fiction between 1928 and 1945 Louise Viljoen Universiteit Stellenbosch Picturing Reality in Marlene van Niekerk s Volumes of Poetry Gesant van die mispels and In die stille agterkamer Christine Hermann Universität Wien National Images in Visual Narratives: The (re) presentation of national characters in Suske en Wiske Marlou de Bont Universität Wien On the Visual Didactics of Hendrik Conscience in Sketches from Flemish Life Round Table: Future of Dutch in the UK and Ireland Moderator: Roel Vismans (High Tor 2) Dinner - Own arrangements Evening Programme for (DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge Street) The Farce of the Fisherman Theatre performance of a late medieval Flemish farce Translated and introduced by Charlotte van Steenbrugge () Kindly offered by the General Representation of the Flemish Government in London ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 5 22/06/ :35

6 Conference Programme Saturday 30 June 2018 Coffee/Tea and Pastries (The Edge, Endcliffe Village) Morning Session 1 (High Tor 3) Morning Session 2 (High Tor 4) Picturing Reality: Authors and Narration Chair: Henriette Louwerse Beatrix van Dam Universität Münster Can You Feel Facts? About Literary Narrative Strategies in Dutch and Flemish Popular Histories at the Beginning of the 21st Century City and Literature Chair: Anna Geurts Victor Bertocchi Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo The Construction of America s Visual Representation: Dutch Engraved Views of Salvador, Olinda, and Matanzas in a War Context (Seventeenth Century) Jolanda VanderWal Taylor University of Wisconsin Is Herman Koch Having Us On? The Craft of a Writer, the Pleasure of Reading, and Ethical Considerations About the Real World Bram Mertens University of Nottingham Hugo Claus and Het Verdriet van België Filip De Ceuster Picturing Reality? Maurice Gilliams: Posture for Experts Benjamin Bossaert Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave When Reality Becomes Myth. Primitive Rebels as Heroes: Every nation its own Robin Hood! Literary and historical representations of two national rebels: Jan De Lichte (Flanders) versus Juraj Jánošík (Slovakia) Paul Hulsenboom Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Essence of the Entire Art of War : Polish views of the Dutch Republic as a military powerhouse and school of war in the 17th century, and their relation with reality Jake Mason Syria Civil Defence and the Syrian Civil War: Understanding the Dutch government s role in the production of Anglo-American propaganda Lunch and ALCS Biennial General Meeting The old and new ALCS Executive Committee will meet after the General Meeting ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 6 22/06/ :35

7 Participants Conference Programme Linda Abel, University College London (CLIE) Kevin Absillis, Antwerp University Adrian Armstrong, Queen Mary, University of London Henk de Berg, Caroline Bland, Marlou de Bont, University of Vienna Victor Bertocchi Ferreira, University of São Paulo Benjamin Bossaert, Comenius University in Bratislava Vera de Bot, University of Amsterdam Helen Carey, Beatrix van Dam, University of Münster Filip De Ceuster, Ingrid Degraeve, Dutch Language Union Hans Demeyer, University College London Paul Demets, University College Ghent Femke Essink, University of Amsterdam Johanna Ferket, Antwerp University Carol Fehringer, University of Newcastle Susan Fitzmaurice, Paola Gentile, University of Leuven Anna Geurts, and University of Nottingham Aimee Hardy, and University College London Giles Harrington, Christine Hermann, University of Vienna Paul Hulsenboom, Radboud University Nijmegen Lotte Jensen, Radboud University Nijmegen Marja Kingma, British LIbrary Henriette Louwerse, Nic Van der Marliere, Flanders House Jake Mason, Bahareh Mehrabi, and AMU Poznan Bram Mertens, University of Nottingham Liesbeth Minnaard, Leiden University Duco van Oostrum, Michael Perraudin, Nick Piercey, Manchester Metropolitan University Reglindis De Ridder, Stockholm University Gabrielle Rijkers, Miranda van Rossum, University of Hull Christine Sas, University College London Louise Snape, Art Platform Hand Of Charlotte Steenbrugge, Cyd Sturgess, Brechje Schwachöfer, Netherlands Embassy Alison Teale, Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, University of Wisconsin Anna van Veldhuizen, University of Manchester Eddy Verbaan, Sheffield Hallam University Louise Viljoen, University of Stellenbosch Roel Vismans, Jenny Watson, Claire van Wengen, University of Edinburgh Sean Williams, Marieke Winkler, Open University Jan Woudstra, ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 7 22/06/ :35

8 The Farce of the Fisherman by Cornelis Everaert A short play from 16th Century Flanders 29 June, 8.30pm Introduced by Dr. Charlotte Steenbrugge DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge St 29 June, 8.30pm More info: alcs.ac.uk/fisherman This performance is part of the Association for Low Countries Studies International Conference: Picturing Reality June 2018 ACLS Programme - Jun18.indd 8 22/06/ :35