Colson Whitehead is the biggest literary sensation of this decade. He was the first author since Annie Proulx to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel The Underground Railroad (translated as De Ondergrondse Spoorweg…
Fellowship Opportunities in American Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC 2018-2019
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in the art and visual culture of the United States. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research. Recipients will be part of…
Uitnodiging Promotie Albertine Bloemendal
Graag nodigt voormalig NASA-bestuurslid Albertine Bloemendal u uit voor de openbare verdediging van haar proefschrift: “Reframing The Diplomat; Ernst van den Beugel and the Cold War Atlantic Community.” De verdediging zal plaatsvinden op woensdag 6 september om 15.00 uur in…
The John Adams Institute presents: Mohsin Hamid – ‘Exit West’
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…
TRAHA 2017 Winner Renee de Groot Returns from North Dakota
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.”
Heidelberg Center for American Studies 15th Annual Spring Conference
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…
NASA presents: ‘American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives’
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…
NASA Board Member Damian Pargas Professor of American History at Leiden University as of 1 August 2017
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 John Adams Institute presents: Dan Brown – ‘Origin’
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…
The John Adams Institute presents: Nicole Krauss – ‘Forest Dark’
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…