t the conference presentations will be given on current issues in various areas including Dutch linguistics, literature, culture, and language teaching. The biennial international conference was last held in Bratislava in 2019. This year, instead of 2021 due to the pandemic, the Department of Dutch Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of UD will organise the event, for the second time after 2000.
Over the two days of the conference, researchers and academic staff members from the Departments of Dutch Studies of universities located in 11 countries – Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, the Netherland, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia – will talk about their most recent methodological and research findings within the framework of about 60 presentations held in 6 sections.
Hungary will be represented at the event by the University of Debrecen, the Eötvös Lóránd University, and the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.
- The conference will facilitate cooperation and international partnership by providing an opportunity for teachers and students to meet and to learn about each other’s research works, results and plans – Gábor Pusztai, head of the Department of Dutch Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of UD told hirek.unideb.hu. In his presentation, he will talk about Dutch-Hungarian cultural transfer, that is, literary translation and the publication of Hungarian literature in the Netherlands in the 19th century.
– This is an undiscovered area. For example, not many people know how well-known the novels of Mór Jókai are in the Netherlands: Jókai’s five books were published in the Netherlands in the 19th century, even though translated into Dutch from German.
Also, at the conference experts will discuss interesting topics like the influence of American rap music on the use of the Dutch language, current issues in literary and technical translation, the change of business language, current issues in interpretation, and even Flemish gastronomy.
The department will publish the presentations in Dutch in its annual journal, Acta Neerlandica.
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