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‘Revolusi’ Corrects the Dutch Colonial Self-Image of Indonesia

5 September 2024

In Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, David van Reybrouck documents the Dutch colonial involvement in the world’s largest archipelago from the early seventeenth century until independence in late 1949. Using his literary talent, the author combines historical research and journ

Cross-Border Cooperation in Education: Still More Barriers Than Benefits

26 September 2023

Making the most of the expertise and skills on the other side of the border. That is the desire of people in the education sector in The Netherlands and Flanders alike. But this wishful, border-breaking collaboration is struggling to get off the ground due to legal obstacles and governmental oversig

Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom

18 October 2022

Flemish Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country. ‘Everything is viewed as a management issue.’

The Promised Land on the Other Side of the Border

10 October 2022

In both the Netherlands and Belgium, the number of inhabitants from the other country has grown considerably in the past fifteen years. But where in Flanders the Dutch form the largest group with a foreign nationality, in the Netherlands the Belgians only come in seventh place. Is abiding by the sou

An Empty European Mind. ‘Grand Hotel Europa’ by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

10 April 2022

A writer by the name of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer leaves Venice and moves into the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about his broken relationship with art historian Clio. In the hotel, he reconstructs exactly what went wrong with Clio and befriends the eccentric hotel staff and gue

Belgium Is Europe in Miniature

6 April 2020

Belgium has an interim minority government to deal with the corona crisis. The emergency has exacerbated the division in the country. Will Belgium fall apart, or is it actually a laboratory for Europe?

Banning, Preserving or Editing: What to Do with Offensive Books?

3 February 2020

The judgment ‘offensive’ is inextricably intertwined with time and culture, the past another country. Nevertheless, it doesn’t follow that we should keep our hands off old texts, especially when it comes to children’s books. As the provocative exhibition ‘Offensive Books?’ at the House o

Strange, the Flemish Use of the Word ‘Vreemd’

30 August 2019

Call me a foreigner, a vreemdeling, but I find it strange how the Flemish media and government use the word vreemd, a word with connotations such as 'foreign', 'deviant', 'unusual'.

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