We are pleased to announce that the Netherlands American Studies Association will hold its 27th annual Amerikanistendag on Friday, 3 June 2022. The event will be hosted by our colleagues at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in the historic…
New Podcast – The John Adams Institute
January 12th 2022, the John Adams Institute started sharing their treasure trove of great thinkers, speakers and writers with you in the podcast Bright Minds. There are three episodes online available – Madeleine Albright, Michael Pollan and Timothy Snyder –…
NASA Keynote Lecture/Roosevelt Lecture in Environmental Studies by Megan Black
On Friday 3 December 2021 Megan Black held the Roosevelt Lecture in NASA Conference Keynote/Environmental Studies. Megan Black is Associate Professor of History at MIT. You can find more information about her here. Megan Black is the author of The Global Interior:…
New Book Publications
Three books by NASA members have been published recently. Giles Scott-Smith and Bram Boxhoorn have published a new book titled The Transatlantic Era (1989-2020) in Documents and Speeches. It is a textbook that uses key documents to interpret the three decades known as…
Netherlands American Studies Review Fall 2021
The Editorial Committee of the Netherlands American Studies Review is happy to announce that the Fall 2021 edition is online now and can be found here. We hope you enjoy this collection of excellent student papers!
Internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Western Hemisphere Department (North-America section) is offering an internship for the period of 28 February – 19 July 2022. You can apply and find more information here: https://www.werkenvoorinternationaleorganisaties.nl/stages/overzicht-stages/stage-bij-de-directie-westelijk-halfrond-dwh—cluster-noord-amerika The internship is only available for…
NASA Keynote and Roosevelt Lecture in Environmental Studies: “The Environment and Global American Studies” by Megan Black
On Friday, December 3, 2021, Megan Black will deliver the NASA Keynote/Roosevelt Lecture in Environmental Studies “The Environment and Global American Studies: The Curious Case of the US Interior Department.” The online lecture which will start at 2:30 PM Netherlands…
NASA conference “A Superpower by Nature: The Environment and American Studies” postponed
On November 12, the Dutch government announced another lockdown and it seems like more stringent measures are on the way. The conference organizing committee of NASA had a meeting this week about how to proceed. We talked about two options:…
NASA Conference: The Environment and American Studies, 3-4 December 2021
On December 3-4, 2021, the NASA conference “A Superpower by Nature: The Environment and American Studies” will take place online. You can find the full program HERE. If you want to attend the conference, please register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-superpower-by-nature-the-environment-in-american-studies-tickets-193367747137. The…
Amerikanistendag 2021 – Summary
On Friday 28 May 2021 the NASA in cooperation with the RIAS held its 26th annual Amerikanistendag – a student academic conference designed to demonstrate the breadth and depth of American Studies.