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6. Pieter Weiland and his Nederduitsche SpraakkunstJan Noordegraaf; 7. Moralist of the Nation; Johannes Henricus van der Palm; Ellen Krol; 8. 'I am Revived as a Belgian'; The Work of Jan Frans Willems; Janneke Weijermars; 9. Adriaan Kluit; Back to the Sources!; Lo van Driel and Nicoline van der Sijs; 10. 'Can Grander Skulls be Crowned?'; Jacob van Dijk's Posthumous Literary History; Peter Altena; 11. Hendrik van Wijn; Pioneer of Historical Literary Studies in the Netherlands; Ton van Kalmthout; 12. The Founding Father of Dutch Literary History; Jeronimo de Vries; Lotte Jensen; Afterword

Practices of 'intentional multiple parenthood', by which more than two parents agree to conceive and raise children together, have gained increased news coverage in recent years. This paper explores written press articles concerning intentional multiple parenthood in Belgium and the Netherlands. Through a discourse analysis of press articles, the paper challenges the gendered and dyadic concept of parenthood as an understandable given. Newly developed concepts within the 'traditional' framework of parenthood are explicitly presented as 'new' and 'revolutionary' within the public discourse, yet their existence remains dependent on mainstream conceptual usage and the dominant social relations underpinning them. Furthermore, it has been found that press articles on the topic of multiple parenthood frequently use familiar concepts (such as traditional family values of love and commitment) and existing terminology (such as 'father', 'mother', 'donor') to describe the non-mainstream practice of multiple parenthood despite the lack of recognition for this practice in the legal realm.

In our contemporary mediatized societies, philanthropy seems to be part of celebrities' ontology, while celebrities have become indispensable for the charity industry. This has provoked both negative and positive appraisals, although the specific nature and consequences of celebrities' involvement remain unclear. This article contributes to these debates by providing a systematic analysis of the roles celebrities play in telethons, which we redefine as charity media events, allowing us to study the shows in their full contextual complexity as ideological constructs. Applying qualitative content analysis, we have analysed two charity media events following the 2010 Haitian earthquake. In general, four distinct roles have been discerned: celebrities add an aura of exclusiveness and glamour, they render distant suffering relevant to domestic audiences, they function as principal motivators, and also contribute to the commodification of charity. Celebrities' involvement thus reinforces charity media events' dominant discourse of charitainment, in which a disaster is portrayed as a short term problem that can be remedied by supporting relief aid. Although this analysis does not disregard the usefulness and impact of fundraising campaigns and the contribution celebrities can make, it criticizes the oversimplified representation of complex issues and the decontextualized and depoliticized interpretations of distant suffering.

Studies in Portuguese on the Dutch period in Brazilian history are scant; in fact several important works by historians of other nationalities such as ones by Aldenburgk, Netscher and Wätjen have been translated into Portuguese. However, we shall limit this survey to Portuguese and especially Brazilian authors. We thought you might be interested in what has been written by them on a topic of interest to expansion studies.