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Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere bids his readers farewell.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere bids his readers farewell.
While Flanders prepares to devote the years 2014-2018 to large-scale commemoration of the First World War, the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres shows a completely new scenography and a total area 50 % larger than when it opened in 1998. ...
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere honours the artist who loved to play around with belgitude.
Flemish photographer Stephan Vanfleteren travelled along the Atlantic Wall, the entire coastal German World War II defence from Norway to Spain. In his own inimitable fashion he shows us the melancholic beauty of these relics. Another Flem...
A traveller follows the Roman limes in the Netherlands from Katwijk to Xanten (Germany). He passes through Leiden, looks for fortresses and finds a historical theme-park where he meets Roman soldiers. He examines the outlines of the Roman ...
Flemish and Dutch people have a totally different relationship with their language. Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere explains why.
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere takes the start of the Multatuli year as an opportunity to explore the author’s legacy.
Luc Devoldere rejects the existence of a bond between language and ethnicity – or Blut und Boden. Instead, he suggests the term ‘territory’.
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere considers himself a language romanticist. 'A romanticist will consider language as the spine of one’s identity.'
Have you ever heard of “suburban Flemish” and “Polderdutch”? Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere about the tension between dying dialects, weird "in-between-languages" and overpowering standard languages.
Luc Devoldere states that we have no choice in Europe, but to become as multilingual as possible.
For centuries, the Dutch language in Belgium had to pave the way for French. And yet, editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere, a Fleming, wouldn’t miss French for the world.
What are those Low Countries actually that we are always talking about? Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere explains.
According to editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere, literature does not provide knowledge, let alone truth. Still, literature can make people better.
Reflecting on Leonardo da Vinci’s death, 500 years ago, Luc Devoldere makes a few comments on the notion of the uomo universale.
Milo Rau and his theater company NTGent adapted the Greek tragedy The Oresteia. Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere left the performance with mixed feelings.
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere reread Natalia Ginzburg’s classic ‘The Little Virtues’ and muses on the life lessons that the Italian writer taught us.
When it comes to Dutch, editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere states that it is not clear who determines which language norms to respect and which rules to adhere to.
Where once there was a checkpoint in France, the slogan 'Let us be ungovernable' can be read along the border. Luc Devoldere wonders what the graffiti artists mean by this.
For a long time, the Dutch believed that the Netherlands was somehow a 'Gidsland' ('Guide Land'), a nation whose moral example could inspire other nations toward better behaviour.
Discover one of the greatest classical poets of the twentieth century in the Netherlands.
For decades, pigeon racing was as much part of Belgium as the Atomium, chip stalls and cycle racing.
‘One-Third Land and Two-Thirds Sky' – that is how the film director Peter Greenaway saw, and sees, the Netherlands.
Ons Erfdeel vzw launches a platform with the ambition to inform you about artistic, cultural and societal topics in the Low Countries.
The legacy of the Dutch historians Johan Huizinga and Pieter Geyl can hardly be overestimated.