Our news

Keep up to date with all the happenings in the Dutch department.

Jonas Roelens: On forbidden desire

On 12 December 2019 we welcome Dr Jonas Roelens to the Centre and to Sheffield. Roelens is the 2019 winner of the Flemish PhD-cup, an award for the most public friendly presentation of recent doctoral research. Roelens works on the history of homosexuality in Belgium.

28 October 2019

Rozsypne. A World Premiere

In February 2019, author and artist Lisa Weeda visited Sheffield with her Virtual Reality project 'Rozsypne. The reality of a forgotten war'. Now Rozsypne has found its way to the IDFA, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Our Sheffield students provided the English subtitles.

26 October 2019

Event in British Library around New Dutch Writing

Spreading the word

For a week in October every year, the Netherlands and Flanders celebrate Dutch Language Week, 'De week van het Nederlands'. Dutch at Sheffield joins in.

12 October 2019

I tried my Dutch in Amsterdam

John Cairns (BAML Dutch, German, Spanish) travels to Amsterdam to see his favourite actress and to test if his Dutch works 'in the real world'.

25 September 2019

Our First Year modules

Add Dutch to your degree programme: learn an accessible European language and get acquainted with the history, art and contemporary cultures of the Netherlands and Belgium.

22 September 2019

Student during theatre production: postcards form Oostende

Postcards from Oostende

Second year students in Dutch Studies put together a bilingual theatre performance set in the Belgian seaside town. 'Postcards from Oostende' offered a snapshot of six British students taking a Dutch language course on the Flemish coast.

26 July 2019

Student winner of Dutch Embassy Prize 2019

Let's celebrate success

This is the time of year to celebrate hard work and great achievements. Let's talk prizes.

19 July 2019

Go browsing

Our University Library has an extensive collection of Dutch and Flemish books, but how do you find the right one for the right topic? Our finalists Jade Metalfe and Matthew Prestage go browsing.

14 July 2019

"What shall I call you?" Address researchers come to Sheffield

From 5 to 7 June 2019 the University is hosting the fifth such conference of the International Network of Address Research (INAR), an informal network of scholars researching and writing about address in the world’s languages. Prof. Roel Vismans, an expert in the field of Dutch address forms, is one of the conference organisers.

4 June 2019

Successful SURE Application Megan Strutt: Suriname (re)Collections

Megan Strutt, BA German with Dutch, was awarded a SURE Network Project scheme grant for her Dutch research project SURINAME, (RE)COLLECTIONS.

5 May 2019