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From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange American Association for Netherlandic Studies and the New Netherland Institute Sessions Thursday, June 8 • The Rembrandt Year 2006 9:00 AM BROADWAY B Amy Golahny, Lycoming College Workshop on literary texts in the Dutch language class Moderator: Louisa Wood Ruby, Frick Collection and • Steunpunt ederlands als vreemde taal Art Reference Library Alice van Kalsbeek, Faculteit der 10:00 - 10:30 BREAK Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam assisted by Nele Maddens, Certificaat Nederlands als 10:30 -12:00 BROADWAY A Vreemde Taal and Katrin Ceulemans, Katholieke • A. "Knickerbocker New York" Diedrich Universiteit Leuven, Centrum voor Taal en Onderwijs Knickerbocker and the Making ofa "Dutch Dynasty" Elizabeth Bradley, Special Assistant to the President, Friday, June 9 New York Public Library Hampton Inn and First Church • Kindred Spirits: Jacob Cats and Washington Irving 8:30AM -10:00 BROADWAY A Elisabeth Paling Funk, New Netherland Institute' A. "Freedom and Death in the West: Colonial Walter Hill's Notebook: Another Case ofFraud? Warfare in the Dutch Atlantic World" Jaap van Marie, Open University ofthe Netherlands • Military Violence in the Atlantic World: A Moderator: Martha D. Shattuck, New Netherland Preliminary Overview Project Victor Enthoven, Royal Netherlands Naval College BROADWAYB • Civic Militia and Garrison in New Netherland, • B. "The Golden Age: The Flourishing ofthe Arts" 1621-1664 The Poetry ofHenricus Selyns Janny Venema, New Netherland Project Frans R. E. Blom, University ofAmsterdam • Ethnic Conflict in the 1763 Berbice Slave • The Dutch Golden Age in the USA: The Anglo­ Rebellion [Dutch Guyana] American World since the 1990s Marjoleine Kars, University ofMaryland, Baltimore James Parente, University ofMinnesota County • John Donne's Epigram 'Fitter Pillar': Sir John Moderator: Victor Enthoven, Royal Netherlands WingfIeld at Geertruidenberg and Cadiz Naval College Paul R. Sellin, UCLA BROADWAY B Moderator: Pamela J. Koch-Twigg, University of B. "Hudson Valley Buildings: The Long Reach of Amsterdam Rensselaerswijck" STATE BOARD ROOM • Rensselaerswijck's Farm Buildings as Models • C. "Postcolonial Dutch Literature and Art" Shirley W Dunn, Dutch Barn Preservation Society Caught in the Middle: The Case ofthe Indigenous • DefIning the Dutch Barn Colonials Ned Pratt, Dutch Barn Preservation Society Heilna du Plooy, North-West University, • The Hay Barrack, An Important Vernacular Potschefstroom, South Africa Building on Hudson Valley Farms • In Flanders' Fields: Postcolonialism, Peter Sinclair, Hudson Valley Vernacular Multiculturalism and the Limits ofTolerance Architecture (HVVA) Luc Renders, Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium Moderator: Keith Cramer, Dutch Barn Preservation • Money Talks: The Recyclability ofDutch Colonial Society Commodities in Contemporary Exchange Systems STATE BOARD ROOM Renee Ridgway, Manhattan Project • C. "Art in the 17th Century: Current Issues" Moderator: Pascale Bos, University ofTexas, Austin th The Presentation ofHagar Episode in 17 -Century Lunch, on your own 12:00-1 :30 Netherlandish Art and Thought Christine Sellin, Woodbury University 1:30 - 3:30 BROADWAYA • Archaism and the Critique ofCaravaggio in the • A. "Cultural Issues ofthe Middle Colonies" Religious Paintings ofHendrick ter Brugghen: An The World ofDutch Readers in 18th -Century New Overview York City Natasha Seaman, Boston University Joyce D. Goodfriend, University ofDenver • Dutch National Character: Surviving the Test of • The Impact ofRevivalism on the Reformed Dutch Di tance? Church in 19th-Century New York and New Jersey Pamela J. Koch-Twigg, University ofAmsterdam Firth Haring Fabend, Independent Historian • Children's Names in New Netherland, New York, • Eilardus Westerlo's Correspondence and New Jersey, 1639-1800 Robert Naborn, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Edward H. Tebbenhoff, Luther College Moderator: James Folts, Historian, First Church • City Squares, Village Greens. Mediating Dutch (Reformed) Culture and Identity in Urban and Rural New York Saturday, June 10 and New Jersey, ca. 1750-1900 Hampton Inn Benjamin Roberts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 8:30AM -10:00 BROADWAY A Moderator: Annette Stott, University ofDenver A."Rites ofPassage or Just Passing Through? Immigrant Experience Across the Atlantic" BROADWAYB th B. "E Pluribus Unum: Ethnic Diversity in New • Immigrant Transportation in the 17 Century Netherland" Jaap Jacobs, University ofAmsterdam • The Enigmatic Isaac Allerton: New Amsterdam • From Adventurous Voyage to Ferry Service: Merchant, Burgher, and Diplomat Experiences and Memories ofDuteh Immigrants, 1840-1940 Hans Krabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center, DavidA. Furlow, Independent Researcher Middelburg • Governors Island, Lifeblood ofAmerican Liberty • From Sailing Hollander to Flying Dutchman. The Joep de Koning, Foundation for Historic New Translatlantic Voyage between 1945 and 1965 Amsterdam Enne Koops, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg • From European Refugees to the New World Moderator: William Z. Shetter, Indiana University Eric J. Roth, Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, NY BROADWAYB • The Swedish Nation under Dutch Rule B. "Indian-Dutch Relations in New Netherland" DavidEmmi, Swedish Colonial Society, Philadelphia • Mohican and Munsee: The Forgotten Peoples of • Garret Van Sweringen and the Dutch Influence in New Netherland Early Maryland Stephen K. Comer, U Albany; Anthropological Henry M Miller, Historic St. Mary s City Collections, New York State Museum Moderator: DonaldRittner, Schenectady County and • George Hamell, A Munsee in Amsterdam, 1645: City Historian The Tale ofJaques and Two West India Company Soldiers, Pieter Klock andPieter Ebels STATE BOARD ROOM • Parameters ofthe Fur Trade in New Netherland: • C. "Image and Text: Dutch-American Reciprocity" 18 th-Century Evidence? The Polder Abroad: Recent Representations of Kees-Jan Waterman, Independent Historian America in the Netherlands Moderator: Donald Rittner, Schenectady County and Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, University ofWisconsin­ City Historian Madison • Text and Subtext in Johan Huizinga's Writings on STATE BOARD ROOM America C. "Modern Dutch Literature" Augustinus P Dierick, University ofToronto • The Soles ofMemory. On Cees Nooteboom's Novel . Sympathetic Spirits; Shared Dutch/American Allerzielen Iconological Systems for DefIning the "Other" Hugo Bousset, Katholieke Universiteit Brussel Nanette Salomon, The College ofStaten Island/ • Where Evil Grows: US vs the Netherlands in Frans CUNY Kellendonk's Writings Moderator: Jenneke Oosterhoff, University of Matthieu Sergier, Universite Catholique de Louvain Minnesota (presented by Ludo Beheydt, Universiteit Leiden / FIRST CHURCH, AUDITORIUM Universite Catholique de Louvain) • D. "Religion and the Dutch" Basement • Fraudulent Identity? The Carl Friedman Case and Seventeenth -Century Religion as a Cultural Practice the Trouble with Memoirs Willem Frijhoff. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Pascale Bos, University ofTexas, Austin ". Moderator: Dan Thornton, University ofNorth 1:30 - 3:30 BROADWAY A Carolina, Chapel Hill • A. "Political Issues ofNew Netherland and New York"ANew World Oligarchy: The Re-creation ofa Dutch BREAK 10:00 - 10:30 Political Structure inPre-Revolutionary New York City 10:30-12:00 BROADWAY A David William Voorhees, New York University • A. "Toward a Dutch Built Environment in America" • Van Hogendorp: Ideas ofthe 'Founding Fathers' in Building a House in New Netherland: Documentary the Dutch Constitution Sources for New Netherlandic Architecture, 1624­ Diederick S. Slijkerman, Leiden University 1776 • Grotius on Manhattan - Jeroen van den Hurk, University ofDelaware Janne Elisabeth Nijman, University ofAmsterdam • Ofa Compound Character: Post-Colonial Vernacular • Governor Nicolls, English Law, and the Story of Architecture in the Upper Hudson and Mohawk Valleys John Binkson Walter Richard Wheeler, Hartgen Archeological Christopher Fritsch, Independent Researcher Associates, Inc. • 1664-1673, A New Netherland Decade that Shaped the Spirit ofAmerica • Building a Stone House in Ulster County, NY in 1751 Thomas Wysmuller, Independent Researcher Neil Larson, Hudson River Valley Institute, Manst College Moderator: James F Sefcik, New Netherland Institute • The Veneklasen Style: 'Koloniaal' Dutch Brick Houses in Michigan BROADWAYB Michael Douma, Florida State University B. "Reading Rubbish: What Archreologists See in Moderator: John Stevens, Architectural Historian other People's Garbage" • Archreological Collections from New Netherland at BROADWAYB the NYS Museum B. "Disparate Lives: Archreological Perspectives of Charles Fisher, NYS Museum People in Colonial New Netherland and New York" • Excavation of a Brick Maker's House in Beverwijck • Penhawitz, Wampage, and the Dutch: A Kevin Moody, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc Tumultuous Encounter • The Archeology of Continuity and Change in Anne-Marie Cantwell, Rutgers University Colonial Dutch Material Culture after 1664 • Sara Roeloffse, A Founding Mother ofNew York Paul R. Huey, NYS Office ofParks, Recreation and Meta Fayden Janowitz, URS Corporation, Historic Preservation ArchC2ology Division • Food Remains from Schuyler Flatts, mid-17th-Century • Alida Schuyler Livingston, A Complete Woman Dutch Diet on the Colonial Frontier Nan A. Rothschild, Barnard College Marie-Lorraine Pipes, SUNY Brockport • Daniel Van Voorhis, A Dutch-American Artisan in • Producers and Consumers: Glass Beads in the Post-Colonial New York City Republic and New Netherland during the 17 th Century Diana diZerega Wall, The City College ofNew York James W Bradley, Archlink Moderator: Martha D. Shattack, New
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