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.

2 September 2020

Summer course online: it works!

What does a summer course in corona times look like? For the first time in its 65-year existence, the Dutch Language Union Summer Course moved all activities online. Georgie von Schweinitz (BA Spanish, German, Dutch) looks back at her experience.

25 August 2020

Elinor Sheridan on her Third Year Abroad in the Netherlands

Elinor Sheridan studies Dutch alongside her French. She looks back on her Year Aboard in the Netherlands: "I am incredibly grateful to have had that unforgettable opportunity to find a space for myself in Nijmegen."

9 July 2020

Looking ahead: Taking translation into schools

We've come to the end of a turbulent academic year: high time for new plans and initiatives. Dutch Studies is pleased to announce that we will be taking our long-term involvement with translation further in 2020-2021.

Students and staff with member of Anglo Netherlands society

Anglo-Netherlands Annual Prize 2020

The winners of the ANS Annual Award 2020 are Hanna Aalen, Ana Krech, Robert Pearce and Marta Siwakowska for their splendid podcast on 'Stimmy of het oerwoud in de stad', a children’s book by Daan Remmerts de Vries and Philip Hopman.

23 July 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.

6 June 2020

Student wins first prize in international writing competition

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.

19 May 2020

SLC-Dutch Jonas Goossenaerts and Filip De Ceuster

Podcasting collaboration

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

4 May 2020

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