NISE participates in The Low Countries Conference on Translation and National Images
On 18 November 2011, NISE played host to the morning session of The Low Countries Conference Translation and National Images. The ADVN collection on national movements provided the source for a lecture by University Antwerp researcher Vincent Scheltiens in collaboration with Andreas Stynen (NISE) on Archives and Libraries as Sources for Imagology. The Flemish/Walloon case.
On 16, 17 and 18 November The Low Countries Conference Translation and National Images, organised jointly by the Lessius University College Antwerp and the SPIN project of the University of Amsterdam, was held in Antwerp and Amsterdam. Conference themes were, among other things, the construction of national identities in the 19th and 20th centuries, the emergence of national writers, national languages and canons treated either as such or viewed alongside or in conjunction with translation and the often paradoxical and hidden or unstated role it has played in these areas. In this respect special attention was paid to ‘imagology’, including its origins, aims and more recent developments in and applications of the discipline.
The morning session on 18 November 2011 took place at the ADVN in Antwerp. The session included a lecture by University Antwerp researcher Vincent Scheltiens in collaboration with Andreas Stynen (NISE) on Archives and Libraries as Sources for Imagology. The Flemish/Walloon case, as well as a guided tour of the institute and an exposition with a limited but exemplary choice of items on the subject out of its collection.