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The Vital Role of Translation in the Black Lives Matter Era
27 September 2022
Translation throws up numerous issues, many of which go beyond linguistic dilemmas. As Dutch Studies students at the University of Sheffield, this wasn’t a new discovery – we know language and culture are inseparable – but one issue came to dominate our recent translation project, one which to
How the Story of an Enslaved Boy Transformed Into a Shared Dutch History
27 September 2022
The most detailed account of the life and the conditions of the plantation colony of Suriname at the end of the 18th century is recorded in English by the Dutch-Scottish army officer John Gabriel Stedman. It is through his writing that author-researcher Ineke Mok found Quaco, an enslaved boy capture
What Does the British Library Tell Us About the Former Dutch Colony of Suriname?
16 September 2022
The Dutch colonial history is well represented in the collections of the British Library. Megan Strutt takes the reader through the Dutch-Surinamese collections via Johan Fretz’s novel ‘Onder de Paramariboom’.
Hidden Slavery Story Translated Into English for First Time
26 April 2022
A Dutch graphic novel revealing a new insight into the lives of millions of Africans who fell victim to the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been brought to English speakers across the globe for the first time, thanks to modern languages students at the University of Sheffield.
Results of the Survey ‘The State of the Dutch Language’ 2021
8 November 2021
In social settings, on social media, and at work, the Dutch language is doing well. But the use of Dutch demands continued support in higher education, and the use of dialects and regional languages deserves further attention too.
Astrid H. Roemer: ‘Dutch Will Slowly but Surely Disappear From Suriname’
26 August 2021
Astrid H. Roemer is the first writer from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America, to win the most prestigious Dutch-language literary accolade: The Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren). Fellow writer Tessa Leuwsha interviewed her in Paramaribo, where they both live. The
Surinamese Mining Town Comes to Life in Interactive Dutch Documentary
8 July 2021
Dutch artist Magda Augusteijn created an innovative web documentary about the history of the former mining town Moengo in Suriname.
‘Stones Have Laws’ Portrays Past and Present Traumas of the Maroon Community
24 March 2020
Many documentaries look at other cultures from a Western perspective. But with Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) – a documentary on the Maroons, descendants of people who escaped from slavery in Suriname – the Dutch artist- and filmmaker-duo Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, in collab
