‘Britain and the Low Countries: Cultural Exchange Past, Present & Future’
London and Cambridge (10-13 July 2024)
2024 marks the first time in the forty-year history of the Historians of Netherlandish Art that the biennial conference will be held in the UK. Cultural, political and economic exchange has been pivotal to the histories of the UK and the Low Countries and these relationships have taken on new significance and have new potential as the UK renegotiates its relationship with Europe after Brexit. ‘Britain and the Low Countries: Cultural Exchange Past, Present & Future’ considers the extraordinary depth and breadth of the relationships between the constituent nations of the UK, Belgium, and The Netherlands.
The conference is comprised of workshops in London and Cambridge on 10 and 13 July (details to come) and 40 paper sessions to be delivered at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, on 11 and 12 July. Thirteen of our sessions relate to the subject of Britain and the Low Countries. These fall under three broad themes: technology and the natural sciences, key themes in scholarship on British-Netherlandish culture, and medium-based scholarship in the British-Netherlandish context. There are 25 further sessions on a broad range of themes and 2 career-development sessions.
The call for papers is now open for all sessions. Each session is 90-minutes long and, unless otherwise specified, will comprise three 20-minute papers and 30 minutes for discussion. CLICK HERE for descriptions of all sessions open for papers. Applicants must be HNA members and are allowed to submit multiple proposals but may not participate in more than one session. We ask that applicants inform the session chairs about the other sessions they are applying to. Unless specified otherwise, please send proposals of c. 500 words, clearly stating the goals of the paper, along with a CV (no longer than one page) to the email address(es) ascribed to the session descriptions below.
Deadline: Friday 29 September 2023. Applicants will be notified by the Session Chairs no later than four weeks after the submission deadline.
Please consider contributing to HNA IDEA’s appeal for contributions to an equitable conference: https://hnanews.org/hna-launches-fundraising-campaign/
