For the 14th ALCS Biennial Conference at the University of Edinburgh we would like to home in on home in a Low Countries context.

Our world is constructed around the reality and the concept of home. After a pandemic in which home gained new prominence, we would like to home in on understanding, remembering, (re)creating, searching for, (re)finding, (re)discovering, challenging, celebrating, home as an idea(l) and as a physical place.

Home is the story of who we are and such a deeply familiar place that it is almost impossible to see it with the eyes of an outsider. We are steeped into home as an idea, a concept, an ideal expressed through objects and representations.

Please find the full Call for Papers here: Homing in

You can SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL here. Please add a few lines about yourself and your affiliation.

The deadline for submission of proposals (max 250 words) is 1 February 2022. We encourage a variety of questions, delivered either as an individual contributions (20-minute presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or proposals for fully constituted panels. Panel conveners are invited to suggest a 90-minutes themed panel of three speakers. We specifically invite postgraduate students and a number of bursaries are available

Selected papers will be published in the ALCS Journal: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies