This year’s Amerikanistendag will be held on June 22nd in Nijmegen, where it began 30 years ago. The American Studies Team at Radboud University is excited to welcome everyone back to their beautiful campus. The Amerikanistendag is a student conference and serves as a…
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:…
US 2020 Election Chats
The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) and NASA are proud to announce a series of video conversations on the current US electoral campaign and the upcoming presidential elections.
Premiere of a new four-part documentary: ‘Booming Texas: the future of the United States’, April 2nd Boom Chigago Amsterdam
Forget the Hollywood clichés about Texas: nowadays, Texas is where it’s at. It has the 10th biggest economy of the world, 1 out of 10 children in the US is born in Texas, and the state exerts a strong pull…
Twenty-fifth National Amerikanistendag at Groningen, 2019
On 7 June 2019, the honors of kicking off the Amerikanistendag, or the National American Studies Day went to Tim Jelfs, of the organizing committee, George Blaustein, president of NASA, and Laura Bieger, head of the department of American Studies…