On Saturday 25th May 2024 you are invited (back to) campus to meet current students and tutors as well as our Artist in Residence Paulien Cornelisse. We have a festive day lined up for you including an opportunity to take a tour of the campus and to join a language class. There will be lekker eten and dancing for those who want to join in. And plenty of opportunities to talk to people.
We will make contact again in March 2024 with further details and a link to reserve you place online, with the option to attend both the daytime programme and evening dinner, or to join us for just part of the day. Numbers will be limited and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis but we will try to fit everybody in.
In the meantime, do use this form to express your interest (niet-bindend, natuurlijk!) to help us get an idea of how many people to expect. All alumni and current students of Dutch Studies at the University of Sheffield are welcome to celebrate with us, so please share this invitation with your fellow alumni in case we don’t have a way of contacting them!
If you have any questions, or even if you’d just like to drop us a message to say hello, you can reach us via sheffielddutch75@gmail.com.
We hope you’ll be able to join us. Please mark that date in your calendar and we’ll be in touch soon.
We'd like to hear from you!
Did you, or did anybody you know, study Dutch at the University of Sheffield or at another HE institution in the UK or Ireland during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or 1980s? If so, you could be a part of a book celebrating 75 years of Dutch at the University!
To mark our 75th Anniversary of Dutch Studies at Sheffield, Paulien Cornelisse is putting together a short book of interviews with former students of Dutch. Would you be interested in taking part?
Participation would involve an online conversation with Paulien, during which you would share your experiences of studying Dutch and whether or not it still plays a role in your life. The conversation would take around an hour and would take place in either English or Dutch.
Please note: you are all equally dear to us, but on this occasion we are looking specifically for people who studied Dutch during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or 1980s.
If this applies to you and you would like to find out more, please email Paulien at sheffielddutch75@gmail.com by 15 January 2024, with your name and the year in which you graduated, and we'll get in touch with you.
We look forward to hearing from you!