Greetings to AANS members old and new!  By registering an account on this website, you can electronically pay AANS membership dues via PayPal or creditcard. This not only lets us keep track of our members, but will also provide reminders when next year’s registration is due.

Current AANS members:  You may have noticed that membership dues have increased.  This is necessary to guarantee access to Dutch Crossing for publishing papers from the ICNS, and the new fee structure represents our “buy in” to ensure that Dutch Crossing is viable.  This was a decision undertaken by the Executive Board with permission of the members present at the AANS business meeting at the June 2014 ICNS. 

All regular, student and emeriti memberships will include an electronic subscription to Dutch Crossing.

Regular members: $90 per annum (includes electronic Dutch Crossing subscription)
Emeriti members: $70 per annum (includes electronic Dutch Crossing subscription)
Student members: $30 per annum (does not include electronic Dutch Crossing subscription)

Membership dues cover the calendar year (January through December).  We encourage everyone to register and pay dues online.  However, if you wish to pay by check, please register using the online form so that we have your contact information.  Send checks to:

Wijnie de Groot, Treasurer
Lecturer of Dutch
Department of Germanic Languages
Columbia University
414 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027

Online Membership Form

Project CODL Eastbound (a cooperation of Huygens ING/KU Leuven/ELTE Budapest)

http://www.codl.nl

Contact: ton.van.kalmthout@huygens.knaw.nl

Dutch-language literature often has a wider distribution than is generally assumed, partly thanks to translations and adaptations. The international peer reviewed journal Dutch Crossing has published a new issue (nr. 2 of vol. 44, 2020), dealing with the transnational circulation of this literature. The seven articles in the issue investigate the dynamics of a minor European literature exporting to other (minor and major) European literatures and new cultural contexts. The introductory paper discusses recent theories concerning the phenomenon of world literature and its connection with translation. The issue is an outcome of the Eastbound project, supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

The entire issue is available in Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydtc20/44/2

Content:

Elke Brems, Theresia Feldmann, Orsolya Réthelyi and Ton van Kalmthout:
The Transnational Trajectories of Dutch Literature as a Minor Literature: A View from World Literature and Translation Studies

Johan Heilbron:
Obtaining World Fame from the Periphery

Jack McMartin:
Dutch Literature in Translation: A Global View

Jan Ceuppens:
Rückübersetzung. The Fates of Nico Rost’s Diary Goethe in Dachau

Orsolya Réthelyi:
A Cold War Literary Mystery: Agents, Manipulation and Patterns of Ideology in the Translated Oeuvre of Theun de Vries

Wilken Engelbrecht:
‘A Good Way to Propagate Communist Thought’: Czech Translations of Dutch Historical Novels during the Communist Regime or Orwell in Practice

Bojana Budimir:
Peripheries in the Global System of Translation: A Case Study of Serbian Translations of Dutch Literature between 1991 and 2015

Theresia Feldmann:
The Untameable Trotzkopf: Commerce and Canonicity in the Curious Circulation of a Classic of German Children’s Literature in the Low Countries and Germany

New Year 2022

Message from the President of the AANS, Herman De Vries

Welkom/Welcome to the website of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS). The AANS is an organization that promotes the study of anything encompassing the language, literature, art history, or social-, historical-, or cultural studies of the Dutch-speaking world. You will find a community in the AANS for exchanging ideas, discussing research, or diffusing scholarly knowledge connected to the Low Countries. To that end, the AANS organizes a conference every other year (pre-COVID pandemic in even years, post-COVID in odd years) to connect scholars, graduate students, lecturers of Dutch, and other enthusiasts with one another. The conference, called International Conference for Netherlandic Studies (ICNS), gives occasion to partner with Historians of Netherlandish Art. The conference has also long received generous support from the Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) based in The Hague as well as from the Flanders Delegation to the USA in New York.

We hope that this website can be a helpful resource for information as well as for the advancement of the study of Flanders, the Netherlands, and other areas of the Dutch-speaking world. We’re glad you’re here.

Now for some news items: 

The International Conference for Netherlandic Studies, held (virtually) at U.C. Berkeley in June of 2021 was a wonderful success. Thanks to all who participated as presenters or attendees; thanks to the co-sponsors Taalunie and Flanders Delegation; and very special thanks to the local organizers Esmée van der Hoeven and Jeroen Dewulf.

If presenters from the recent conference or other AANS members are interested in pursuing publication of their research with Dutch Crossing, please contact Jesse Sadler of the AANS Editorial board at jsadler@g.ucla.edu.

Planning has already begun for the next ICNS, to be held in early June 2023 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Stay tuned for exact dates and further details to come.

Congratulations to Annemarie Toebosch and Ton Broos who, along with others, curated the recent exhibit entitled “Dutch Studies: A decolonial revision.” The exhibit is part of the celebration of 50 Years of Dutch Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Here’s a link to the overview video of the anniversary exhibit, with symposium events listed in the description underneath:     https://youtu.be/Q08gjSF0DVs

Please note also the upcoming, April 1, 2022 deadline for the AANS scholarship. Details and instruction for application can be found on this website.

Please follow us on Twitter @NLic_studies. If you have anything Dutch studies related that you would like us to share, please tweet at us, and we will be happy to tweet it out.

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Herman De Vries

Frederik Meijer Chair in Dutch Language and Culture

Calvin University

Grand Rapids, Michigan