We are pleased to announce that the book “American Responses to the Holocaust; Transatlantic Perspectives,” edited by Hans Krabbendam (Catholic Documentation Centre) and Derek Rubin (Utrecht University) has been published. This publication grew out of an international conference organized by…
From 1 September 2017, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) will be awarding several four-year scholarships to complete a PhD in American History / American Studies. The Roosevelt Institute was previously the Roosevelt Study Center, which was established in…
It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Dr. Damian Pargas as the successor of Professor of Adam Fairclough to the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in the History and Culture of the United States at Leiden…
The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg will host a conference on 30 November – 1 December 2017. The conference builds on the experimental MOOC, ‘The Rooseveltian Century’, produced by Giles Scott-Smith and Dario Fazzi in 2016. The event, the first to…
We are happy to announce that Mohsin Hamid is returning to The John Adams Institute, this time to discuss his new novel Exit West, also translated and published as Exit West by De Bezige Bij. In a country teetering on the brink of…
The 2017 Theodore Roosevelt American History Award was won by Renee de Groot, a graduate student of the University of Amsterdam and former StudentNASA president, for her thesis: “The Rewritten War: Alternate Histories of the Civil War.”
Call for Papers The fifteenth HCA Spring Acadamy on American Culture, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 19-23, 2018. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides…
Dan Brown, the world’s most popular thriller writer, returns to the John Adams Institute to discuss his new novel Origin, translated into Dutch as De Oorsprong by Luitingh Sijthoff. Unfolding entirely in Spain —Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and Bilbao, the home of…
Bestselling American novelist Nicole Krauss will join the John Adams Institute to discuss her new novel Forest Dark, translated as Donker Woud by Ambo Anthos. The New York Times describes Krauss as “one of America’s most important novelists”, and is best…
Since 2003, the Institute and its predecessor, the Roosevelt Study Center, has organized annual seminars for PhD students pursuing research in its areas of interest. Past participants have included students from leading universities across Europe and the United States. The…
The 23rd Amerikanistendag was held in Amsterdam on 2 June 2017, and brought together young Americanists from the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the U.S. The University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the University of Utrecht, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and the Roosevelt Institute of…