On Monday September 25, 2023, Professor Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will lead the inaugural session of the Seminar Series on Modern North American History, jointly organized by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and the Sciences Po Center…
Webinar: From Slavery to Freedom in the American South and Dutch Caribbean
On 12 October 2023, the RIAS and the Netherland-America (NAF) are jointly hosting a webinar titled “From Slavery to Freedom in the American South and Dutch Caribbean.” The year 2023 marks the 160th anniversary of both the Emancipation Proclamation in…
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…