The 2025 Colloquium Neerlandicum will take place from Monday 25 to Friday 29 August at the Free University of Brussels (VUB)

No language is an island, and that includes Dutch. That the Dutch language and culture is in contact with other languages and cultures worldwide is an awareness of which international Dutch literature is logically permeated. This theme ties in nicely with the city where the colloquium is being held. In Brussels, 107 languages are officially spoken.

Naturally, this colloquium also contains another cultural programme and we will then also hold the IVN General Assembly of Members again.

Submission of contributions is no longer possible. The deadline has passed.

More information about the content of the colloquium and contributions can be found here. The conference language is Dutch.

The Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (UAntwerpen) is looking for a full-time (100%) PhD student in Translation Studies.

The future PhD student will actively work on the preparation of a doctoral dissertation in (literary) translation science, on genre (police novels versus “romans durs”) and gender (description of female characters and discourses) in Dutch translations and re-translations of Georges Simenon’s work.

Read the full vacancy here. You can apply until 3 July 2025 via the University of Antwerp’s online application platform.