News and Events
Spring Seminars 2013 - Jessop West Serminar Room 07
Wednesday, 6 March, 5 pm
Alison Edwards, PhD-student, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge:
The misfit: Placing the Netherlands on the map of World Englishes
Wednesday, 13 March, 4 pm
Dr Liesbeth Minnaard, Department of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, University of Leiden:
Dutch and German Migration Writers (see also below)
Wine will be served afterwards.
Visting Scholar: Dr Liesbeth Minnaard
The Centre for Dutch Studies and the Department of Germanic Studies welcome Dr Liesbeth Minnaard from the Department of Comparative Literature and Film Studies of Leiden University. Dr Minaard will stay in Sheffield as a Visiting Scholar till 31 March 2013 and will contribute to several research activities within the Department of Germanic Studies and the School of Languages and Culture.
On Wednesday 13 March 2013 Dr Minnaard will give a research paper. This event is jointly organised by the Department of Germanic Studies and will take place in Jessop West SR07 at 4pm.
During her stay at Sheffield Liesbeth will be working with Dr Henriette Louwerse on a joint publication investigating the ambivalent attitude towards the notion of community as expressed in contemporary Dutch literature.
Six authors from the Low Countries visit Sheffield
The Department of Germanic Studies together with the Centre for Dutch Studies will welcome the High Impact Tour, a literary tour of six eminent authors from the Low Countries, on Thursday 17 January 2013. The event will consist of workshops for students as well as an evening programme for the general public. The evening will start at 7.00 pm in St Georges Church. Entry is free but registration is required.
Our guest authors are: Lieve Joris, Herman Koch, Ramsey Nasr, Peter Terrin, Chika Unigwe, Judith Vanistendael. For more information check facebook.com/HighImpactTour and the High Impact Tour website
City Books Sheffield
Citybooks Sheffield was officially launched on 4 April 2012 with poetry reading by Sheffield poets Helen Mort and Agnes Lehozcky, and Sheffield students of Dutch Christina Barningham, Victoria Beardwood, Charles Macdonald-Jones and Louise Snape. There was also an exhibition of David Bocking’s images of Sheffield, and Dominic Green talked about his city-one-minute project.
Windows on Dutch Culture
On 8 May 2012 final-year students of Dutch in Sheffield organised a unique student conference about the complexities of Dutch culture as a part of one of their modules. The conference drew on their own research and experiences. Read more about it here