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…
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…
Thursday and Friday 15-16 June 2017 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen From booksellers and rock artists to diplomats and the President of the United States, many people have echoed the sentiment that Canada has something important to offer to the world.…
The New Americanist is an interdisciplinary journal publishing scholarly work on the United States and the Americas broadly considered. We are especially interested in work which includes a global perspective, introduces new critical approaches, and proposes theoretical frameworks to the…
On June 29, the award-winning journalist and biographer John A. Farell will discuss his upcoming book Richard Nixon: The Life at the John Adams Institute. The work offers an enthralling biography of America’s darkest president, and has been hailed by critics as…
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is offering several internship placement in their Western Hemisphere Department, starting in September 2017. The application deadline for all three placements is 9 June 2017. For details on the specific internships on offer, see the…
The Historians of the Twentieth Century United States will hold their annual conference from 16-18 June at University College Dublin, in Ireland. he plenary speaker will be Professor Penny Von Eschen of Cornell University, who will be delivering a…
The Transatlantic Studies Association was created in 2001 to bring together those scholars for whom the ‘transatlantic’ is an important frame of reference: historians, political scientists and scholars of International Relations, sociologists, cultural and literary theorists. Since its establishment the Association…
For the eight time, De Volkskrant and the International Institute for Social History will award a prize for the best history thesis completed at a Dutch university. Any MA thesis written on a national or international historical subject, submitted…
Award for Academic Excellence From 1995 onwards, the RSC has presented the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award (TRAHA) for the best Master thesis written by a graduate student at a Dutch university on an American history topic. This year will…