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Posted by Hans Krabbendam
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Conference program
Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations
15-16 October 2009
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105, Hall 2A00
To celebrate 400 years of close relations across the Atlantic
(1609–2009) a two-day conference is organized to explore this theme and
generate a debate on the meaning of Dutch-American relations in both
past and future.
The central questions are: Has there been a recognisable continuity to
Dutch-American relations, or have relations been instead marked by
‘waves’ of interest coming from one side or the other? How do the
historical traditions of these contacts still play a role? Which themes
will scholars of this relationship put on the agenda for future research?
The conference follows the outline of these 400 years as presented in
the volume Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, which
will be published by the Roosevelt Study Center on 2 September 2009.
This compendium of essays cover the main aspects of the relationship
over the last four centuries.
Six general overviews will be followed by responses from Dutch and
American specialists. October 15 is devoted to the seventeenth till the
early twentieth centuries. October 16 to the political, economic, and
cultural aspects of the post-World War II era.
In a special session sponsored by Erfgoed Nederland two specialists
discuss the material and mental legacies of the Dutch in New Netherland.
The conference is concluded by a lecture by Christopher Caldwell, author
of Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the
West.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
09.30 Arrival and Registration
Coffee
10.15 Introduction by Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director Roosevelt
Study Center
Welcoming Remarks by Russell Shorto, John Adams Institute, Amsterdam
10.30 Session I: 17th and 18th centuries
Willem Frijhoff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): The Dutch, New
Netherland, and Thereafter (1609-1780s)
Claudia Schnurmann (Hamburg University): The Dutch in the Atlantic
History
Victor Enthoven (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Dutch-American Trade
Networks
Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Session II: 19th Century
Wim van den Doel (Leiden University): From Distant Images to Closer
Relations: The Netherlands and the United States during the Nineteenth
Century
Bruce Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania): The Shifting Balance in the
American Relation with the Dutch 1
Michael Wintle (University of Amsterdam): Infrastructure and Nation
Building
Discussion
14.30 Coffee/tea
15.00 Session III: The Interwar Years (parallel session) Hall 2A00
Doeko Bosscher (University of Groningen): Toward a Community of
Interests: The Netherlands and the United States between the World Wars
Jan de Vries (UCLA): Economic Changes in Dutch and American Family Life
Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University): American Consumer Goods enter Holland
Discussion
15.00 Session IV: Material Culture (parallel session) Hall 1A05
Joel Grossman (City Archaeologist New York): New Insights Into Dutch
Material Culture of 17th Century New Amsterdam
Jaap Jacobs (author of The Colony of New Netherland): Heritage and
History: The Complexities of Colonial Afterlife
Discussion
17.00 Reception (sponsored by Boom Publishers Amsterdam)
18.00 Concert Champagne Charlie (stringband and blues)
Friday, 16 October 2009
09.00 Registration and Coffee
09.30 Session V: 20th Century Politics
Duco Hellema (Utrecht University): The Politics of Asymmetry: The
Netherlands and the United States since 1945
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC):
Transatlantic Relations: U.S. and Dutch Roles
Ruud Janssens (University of Amsterdam): The Dutch Vision on American
Security Developments
Discussion
11.00 Coffee/tea
11.30 Session VI: 20th Century Economy
Bob Reinalda (Radboud University Nijmegen): The Netherlands, the
United States, and the Development of a Postwar International Economy
Keetie Sluyterman (Utrecht University): Investment Strategies of
Dutch and American Multinationals
Tom Etty (FNV historian) Labor Relations and Dutch-American Exchange
Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session VII: 20th Century Religion
James C. Kennedy (University of Amsterdam): Introduction
Philip Jenkins (Pennsylvania State University): Religious America and
Secular Holland: Future Trends
Hyme Stoffels (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Dutch Believers and
American Religion
Corwin Smidt (Calvin College): Dutch-Americans Between Dutch Secularism
and American Evangelicals
16.30 Concluding remarks
19.00 Transfer to lecture hall OBA-Theater van het Woord -
Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam
20.00 Christopher Caldwell (Financial Times): American Reflections on
the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
21.30 Reception
Sponsored by Provincie Zeeland, the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the American
Embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands American Studies Association, the
John Adams Institute, the Roosevelt Study Center, the Historical
Documentation Center for Dutch Protestantism of the Vrije Universiteit,
Erfgoed Nederland.
Location: Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
Hall 2A00
Registration and payment: before October 1, 2009 at Roosevelt Study
Center, P.O. Box 6001, 4330 LA Middelburg, the Netherlands, tel.
0118-631590, rsc@zeeland.nl (registration forms available at website
www.roosevelt.nl)
Conference fee (incl. coffee/tea and two lunches, and reception):
One day € 40, whole conference € 75
Students and NASA members: € 20 per day or € 35 for the whole conference
Payable at account number 452809029 Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg,
quoting “Conference 4 centuries”
Foreign participants should pay cash at the registration counter
(regrettably no checks or credit cards can be accepted)
Book display with conference discount on Four Centuries of
Dutch-American Relations
(Amsterdam: Boom, 2009) 1192 pag.
Conference organizers:
Contents and program and pr:
Hans Krabbendam (Roosevelt Study Center) rsc@zeeland.nl T 31 (0)118-631590.
Local logistics:
Hans Seijlhouwer (Vrije Universiteit) hans@ubvu.vu.nl T 31 (0)20-59 85274.
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D.J. Wolffram
History Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
http://www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.wolffram/index
Tel 0031 50 3637699 , 0031 592 375522 (home)
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