This year, we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of our Amerikanistendag. Please join us for an exciting program with keynotes, presentations, awards, music, and videos in Nijmegen on June 22, 2023. Check out the Final Program Amerikanistendag 2023 and do…
NASA (virtual) Roundtable with Nancy Mykoff
GOING GLOCAL: ENGAGING STANDING ROCK MONDAY, MARCH 27TH, 4:00-5:00 PM Our first NASA Roundtable will feature Nancy Mykoff (University College Roosevelt) discussing her current collaboration with members, artists, leaders and institutions of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Indian Country. This…
A Superpower by Nature: The Environment and American Studies – May 2022
The NASA 2021/2022 conference will be held at the University College Utrecht on 20-21 May 2022. The two-day conference will feature innovative research and approaches exploring the intersections between the environment and American Studies. The conference registration is open and is available…
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…
Amerikanistendag 2019 in Groningen Program
This year the annual NASA Student Conference will be held on Friday 7 June 2019 at the University of Groningen. The Amerikanistendag is an annual student conference organized by the Netherlands American Studies Association. The conference serves as a forum for students…
Conference report: The Future of American Studies in the Netherlands
On December 14, 2018, Americanists and non-Americanists gathered in Amsterdam for a special symposium on the Future of American Studies in the Netherlands. The full program can be found here. There were valuable contributions from across the generations, as it…

Amerikanistendag 2018 at the RIAS in Middelburg
On June 1st the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies hosted the 24th NASA Amerikanistendag, allowing BA, MA and PhD students from in and outside the Netherlands to present their research projects.

Amerikanistendag 2017 at the University of Amsterdam
The 23rd Amerikanistendag was held in Amsterdam on 2 June 2017, and brought together young Americanists from the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the U.S. The University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the University of Utrecht, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and the Roosevelt Institute of…
NASA Fall Conference: Forging the American Century
“Forging the American Century: World War II and the Tranformation of US Internationalism” On October 27-28, Radboud University Nijmegen hosted an international conference to explore the outlines of the “American Century” since World War II. In light of contemporary concerns…
Report NASA Conference 2016
American Studies Conference on Digital Humanities Transcends the Dichotomy of Culture and Technique. On 15 and 16 September 2016 about 30 scholars met at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands to discuss the state of the field of…