Johan Visser (Leiden University) receives 2024 AANS Scholarship
We are pleased to announce that Johan Visser, Ph.D. Candidate at Leiden University, has been chosen to receive the 2024 AANS Scholarship from a competitive group of applications. Johan's project investigates the challenges of food supply and ecological adaptation in the Dutch Atlantic world in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. He plans to undertake research at the John Carter Brown Library, the New York State Archives, the New York Public Library, and the New Netherland Institute in Albany. We all look forward to hearing about this exciting research project at ICNS 2025 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Call for Papers: ICNS 2025 - Shaping the Future: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Netherlandic Studies
Shaping the Future: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Netherlandic Studies
When: Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7, 2025
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
We invite submissions for an interdisciplinary conference exploring the intersections of language, literature, art history, history, sustainability, politics, music, urban planning, design, religion, climate change, and colonialism, with a particular focus on Dutch-speaking societies around the globe. With the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Surinamese independence in 2025, papers devoted to the Caribbean area are of special interest. We are also interested in contributions that span historical periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Submit your proposals to contribute to a deep exploration of how differing fields of study influence each other and collectively shape our future. We welcome innovative research and groundbreaking scholarship that map critical inflection points, movements, and transformations in these societies–past, present, and future.
Select papers may be included in a conference publication to follow. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Four travel grants of €500 each will be awarded to graduate students who present a paper.
Keynote speaker: TBD
Workshop for Dutch Language instructors (by invitation only) on Thursday, June 5.
Conference coordinator: Dan Thornton, Adj. Associate Professor of Dutch, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Submission and Registration: For consideration, please submit an abstract of 250 words and a bio to ineke.huysman@huygens.knaw.nl with “ICNS Abstract” in the subject line by January 31, 2025. Acceptance notifications will be given by February 15, 2025.
Registration details, including conference fees, logistics, and hotel information will be available after February 15, 2025 at the AANS website https://www.netherlandicstudies.org.
AANS membership is required in order to attend the conference. The AANS membership fees, which includes a subscription to the journal Dutch Crossings, are $90 for standard membership $30 for full-time graduate students, and $70 for emeriti/retired.