Even voorstellen: keynotespreker Alderik Blom (CFH2025)

Op woensdag 12 november is prof. dr. Alderik Blom uitgenodigd als eerste keynotespreker van het congres. Alderik H. Blom studeerde geschiedenis, muziekwetenschap, keltologie en oudgermanistiek in Utrecht, Amsterdam en Galway. Van 2002 tot 2010 werkte hij aan de Universiteit van Cambridge (M. Phil., Ph.D. en postdoc aan het Girton College), daarna aan de Universiteit van Oxford: eerst als postdoc aan het Corpus Christi College en vanaf 2013 als Associate Professor of Celtic. 

Sinds 2017 is Blom hoogleraar Keltisch bij de vakgroep Indogermanistiek aan de Philipps-Universität Marburg in Duitsland.

Lezing

De titel van Bloms lezing is ‘‘Hor c’heneiled vreizhat ~ Ús Bretonske freonen: Relations between the Frisian and Breton movements, ca. 1946-1958’. 

Hor c’heneiled vreizhat ~ Ús Bretonske freonen: Relations between the Frisian and Breton movements, ca. 1946-1958

In June 1948, the newly founded Frisian literary magazine ‘De Tsjerne’ published a special issue entirely devoted to the Breton minority in France. In the good ten years that followed, Brittany, with its language and literature, even became a regular theme in ‘De Tsjerne’ and other Frisian-language magazines. Moreover, in turn, the leading Breton magazine ‘Al Liamm’ published a similar issue in 1951, this time entirely devoted to Fryslân and its language, with contributions from the main players in the Frisian movement of the time, translated into Breton. ‘Al Liamm’ also continued to follow cultural developments in Fryslân well into the 1960s. 

How did this culturally fruitful but now almost forgotten exchange come about and to what end? Who were the central Breton and Frisian figures in this attempt to bring linguistic minorities closer together in post-World War II Europe? The cultural and political context of post-war European federalism, the problematic wartime past of the two movements and the personal networks that formed the background of this Breton and Frisian exchange are the central issues addressed in this lecture. In addition to relevant journal publications in both Breton and Frisian, as well as French and Dutch, the focus will be on the unpublished correspondence between the main figures in this Frisian-Breton exchange.

Meer over Blom en de lezing is te vinden op de sprekerspagina op de congreswebsite.

In het kort

Wat: Conference on Frisian Humanities
Waar: Oranje Hotel, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden 
Wanneer: 12-14 november 2025 
Organisatie: Fryske Akademy, Mercator Europees Kenniscentrum voor Meertaligheid en Taalleren, het Lectoraat Meertaligheid en Geletterdheid van de NHL Stenden Hogeschool, de afdeling Frisian Studies van de Universiteit Groningen en de afdeling Language, Technology and Culture van UG/Campus Fryslân. 
Volledige programma: download (pdf) 
Book of Abstracts: download (pdf) 
Registratie: via de website.