To mark Kinderboekenweek 2025, the Institut français NL and the Alliances Françaises in Amsterdam and Utrecht invited Marc Boutavant, one of France's leading children's illustrators, to visit the Netherlands in October.
 The illustrator of the famous Chien Pourri – known and loved in the Netherlands as Stinkhond (Dumpster Dog in English) – met up with his translator Sylvia Vanden Heede for a brand new episode of the Passage(s) podcast.

In this warm and friendly exchange, they discuss their collaboration about this unforgettable canine character, share the secrets of their joint work, address the challenges of translating humour and cultural misunderstandings – such as that of the little rats of the Opera, which are absent from the Dutch imagination – and they explore the bridges between French-language creation and the translation of Dutch-language children's literature.

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A conversation between Marie-Aude Baronian and Isabelle Alfandary about Jacques Derrida.

Why is Jacques Derrida still relevant today? How can we ‘unpack’ Derrida's library? In the current context of global change and transition, which of Derrida's books should we keep on the shelf? Why should we reread these books, and how should we interpret them?

Marie-Aude Baronian haș a PhD in Cinema Studies and is an Associate Professor at the department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Isabelle Alfandary is a Professor of American Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and a contemporary philosophy specialist, focusing, most notably, on Jacques Derrida.

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A conversation between French writer Anthony Passeron and Mark Vermeulen, director of Aidsfonds Nederlands, about the early years of the AIDS epidemic through the story of the narrator's family in an isolated village and about the evolution of AIDS in the 21st century.

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