On Friday 4 October 2024 NASA board member Dr. Maarten Zwiers (University of Groningen) will present this year’s RIAS Environmental History Lecture on the meaning of wetlands throughout history in the Netherlands, the US, and beyond. Title Lecture: The Meaning…
Hate in the Homeland: The Fate of Democracy in a Radicalizing World
October 15, 2024, 8PM – 10PM PAKHUIS DE ZWIJGER, PIET HEINKADE 179, AMSTERDAM Buy tickets here for the event. “What would it take to ensure that everyone feels at home in the country where they live? Who gets to claim…
Tommy Orange: Wandering Stars
September 26, 2024, 8PM – 10PM VONDELKERK, VONDELSTRAAT 120, AMSTERDAM The John Adams Institute is honored to welcome Native American novelist Tommy Orange back to Amsterdam for his highly anticipated second book, Wandering Stars. Orange broke onto the American literary…
‘Town Hall Meeting’ Eind van de democratie?
(This event will be held in Dutch.) Op vrijdag 13 september organiseert het RIAS, samen met de Bibliotheek van Zeeland (ZB) en het University College Roosevelt (UCR), een ‘Town Hall Meeting’ over de aankomende Amerikaanse verkiezingen. Het evenement vind plaats…
NASA Fifth Online Roundtable with Deborah Cohn and Joseph Heathcott
We are pleased to announce the 5th roundtable that will take place on Friday, May 24, 2024 online and in person at the RIAS in Middelburg. Professors Deborah Cohn will give her presentation on ‘Promoting a Field in Fluc: American…
Locating American Studies Symposium at Radboud University Nijmegen
Dedicated to the AS program at Radboud at its 35th annivesary On 20-21 September, 2024, Radboud University of Nijmegen will hold its Locating American Studies Symposium at its 35th anniversary. How do we practice American Studies in Europe? The symposium “Locating…
Race Land Symposium at University Groningen
On 19-21 September 2024, the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen (UG) will host the Race Land symposium. This symposium is the concluding event of “Race Land: The Ecology of Segregation,” a research project conducted by NASA member…
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.
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…