Dear colleagues,
(with apologies for cross-posting)
Some of you may be interested in the call for papers below, on the topic of Low Countries, Big Cities.
Deadline for abstracts is Nov 30, to [log in to unmask]
Please do pass this on to any interested colleagues.
Best wishes,
Nicola
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Low Countries, Big Cities
Association for Low Countries Studies, 9th Biennial Conference
3 - 5 April 2012
University of Sheffield, UK
Call for Papers and Panel Proposals
For the first time in human history, more people live in an urban environment than in a rural one. Cities are big and getting bigger. Cities have played a crucial role in the history of the Low Countries as places of encounter, exchange, protest and revolution. The city is a place of contrast: new trends emerge in a setting infused with history. Cities are often either celebrated as liberal, free spirited, worldly hybrids, or dismissed as locations of tension, lacking in morals and traditional values. Cities are places of linguistic innovation: new linguistic features emerge, indeed new urban vernaculars, of which Polder Dutch is a prominent example in the Low Countries. In art, representations of cities-and their related concerns-constitute some the most potent and thought-provoking images produced in the modern era.
It is the aim of this conference to explore the cities of the Low Countries along and across cultural, linguistic and historical lines.
The keynote speakers will be Prof. Herman Pleij (UvA), Prof. Wim Vandenbussche (VUB) and Prof Geert Buelens (UU) We invite both individual contributions (20-minute presentations which will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion) and proposals for fully constituted panels. Panel conveners are invited to suggest a 90-minutes themed panel of three speakers. We specifically invite postgraduate students and a number of full bursaries are available.
Topics may include:
* City as a setting, city as a subject
* The imaginary city
* Contemporary and historical representations of the/a city in visual art and literature
* Urban culture through the centuries
* Cultural links and influences between cities
* Cities as places of shared memory
* Urban vernaculars, street language
Please send you proposal in the form of a 300-WORD ABSTRACT by 30 November 2011 to Henriette Louwerse ([log in to unmask]) Selected papers will be published in the ALCS Journal: Dutch Crossing
Delegates will be invited to join the official launch of citybooks Sheffield, an alternative travel guide to the city in text and image, as well as a special exhibition of Dutch and Flemish art at the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
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Dr Henriette Louwerse
Senior Lecturer in Dutch
SOMLAL, Germanic Studies
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
UK
+44 (0)114 2224387
www.journalofdutchliterature.org
www.city-books.eu/en/
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