News

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

15 May 2020

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.

6 June 2020

New in Dutch: Marta Siwakowska

Second Year student Marta Siwakowska (Dutch, German, Italian) was invited to write a guest column for 'Onze Taal', a popular magazine in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Student wins first prize in international writing competition

19 May 2020

Literary prize for an extraordinary winner: Catherine Newell

Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov and now Catherine Newell. After less than two years of studying Dutch, Catherine's entry was crowned winner in the international writing competition Write Now! Worldwide.

SLC-Dutch Jonas Goossenaerts and Filip De Ceuster

4 May 2020

Podcasting collaboration

Dutch Studies is exploring the opportunities that our new digital existence offers. This includes the collaboration with a popular Belgian historical podcaster.

Connected in times of lockdown: Vogels, vissen

Jessop West is empty. The lights are off. The whiteboards are bored. But staff and students of Dutch Studies manage to stay connected through poetry.

2 April 2020

New Dutch Library Resource Guide

A new library resource wants to encourage students to go beyond the digital and visit the library to check our extensive collection of books in Dutch Studies

11 March 2020

Guest Author: Fikry El Azzouzi

We were pleased and privileged to welcome Belgian author Fikry El Azzouzi as our Guest Author 2020. El Azzouzi worked with our translation students, gave a workshop and public reading.

8 March 2020

Dutch and Flemish Events in March 2020

March promised to be busy month. We welcomed our Writer in Residence Fikry El Azzouzi, but all our events with translators Alice Tetley-Paul and Jonathan Reeder, and NOS-correspondent Tim de Wit have had to be CANCELLED.

4 March 2020

Megan Strutt Guest Blogger for British Library

SLC Megan Strutt (German with Dutch) presented her research project SURINAME. (RE)COLLECTIONS during the SURE exhibiton. Her Guest Blog is on the British Library website.

2 March 2020

Jonas Roelens: On forbidden desire

On 12 December 2019 we welcomed 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

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