Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ (GNS).
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Thursday, June 8: Pyle Center
- 7:00-9:00pm: Welcome Reception and Registration
Friday, June 9: Pyle Center
- 9:30-10:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast/Coffee
- 10:30-12:00am: Opening and Keynote
- Words of Welcome by: Susan Zaeske (Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities, UW-Madison), Karlijn Waterman (Senior Beleidsadveiseur, Union for the Dutch Language), and Herman de Vries (Calvin University, President of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies)
- Keynote Lecture: “Cultures in Conflict: Defining Language and Identity in the Dutch Frisian Coastal Area of the Early Middle Ages” from Peter-Alexander Kerkhof, Fryske Akademy
- `12:00-1:30pm: Lunch
- 1:30-3:00: Session 1
- Session 1: New Netherland and the WIC
- “Buying Indigenous Land in New Netherland” by Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University
- “Mapping Miniskink: An Ambiguous Center in New Netherland” by Marian Leech, University of Pennsylvania
- “Dutch Gold, the West India Plot, and Charles I’s Turn from Spain, 1634-1637” by Elizabeth Hines, University of Chicago
- Session 1: New Netherland and the WIC
- 3:30-5:00pm: Parallel Sessions
- Session 2: New Research on the Early Modern Low Countries I
- “Money Making: Merchants and Painters in the 16th Century Antwerp” by Sunmin Cha, Columbia University
- “A Discourse of Rupture” by Sanne Hermans, University of Antwerp
- “Perfumery, An unknown scientific hobby of polymath Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)” by Ineke Huysman, Huygens
Institute
- Session 3: Exploring Dutch Identity through Literature
- “Williem de Clerq (1795-1844) and Foreign Literature)” by Ton van Kalmthout, Huygens Institute
- “Pursuing Private Interests in the Public Sphere; Thomas Rosenboom’s Publieke werken” by Jenneke Oosterhoff, University
of Minnesota - “Isolation and Transformation: The Home in Renate Dorrenstein’s Een hart van steen and Gerbrand Bakker’s Bove is het stil”
by Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, UW-Madison
- Session 2: New Research on the Early Modern Low Countries I
- 6:30-9:30pm: Gathering and Banquet
Saturday, June 10: Pyle Center
- 9:00-10:30am: Parallel Sessions
- Session 4: Transnational Perspectives I: Mobility
- “Female Travel and Mobility during the Dutch Revolt” by Jesse Sadler, UCLA
- “Family Ties and Departures: Two Young Migrants in the Early Modern Dutch World” by Amanda Faulkner, Columbia
University - “Orange Everything’: 4th and 5th generation Dutchness in North America” by Charlotte Vanhecke and Rachel Hieptas, UWMadison
- Session 5: Asia
- “Company-States and Connected Kingdoms: Buddhism, Brides, and the Dutch VOC in 18th Century Southern Asia” by Tyler
Lehrer, UW-Madison - “Contemplating Religion in the Netherlands Indies: A Preliminary Examination of the Colonial Effort to Reshape Balinese
Religiosity through the 1927 Dutch-sponsored trip of Rabindranath Tagore” by Ni Luh Gede Sri Pratiwi, UW-Madison
- “Company-States and Connected Kingdoms: Buddhism, Brides, and the Dutch VOC in 18th Century Southern Asia” by Tyler
- Session 4: Transnational Perspectives I: Mobility
- 10:30-11:00am: Coffee
- 11:00am-12:00pm: Parallel Sessions
- Session 6: New Research of the Early Modern Low Countries II
- “Finding New Meaning in Early Netherlandish Landscapes” by Virginia Girard, Columbia University
- “The Dutch Textile Trade Project” by Marsely Kehoe, independent researcher
- Session 7: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)
- “Duurzaamheid and Sustainability: Language, Culture, and Climate Change” by Peter Mouw, Calvin University
- “Better Together: Opportunities for Netherlandic Studies Involving STEM Disciplines” by David Koetje, Calvin University
- Session 6: New Research of the Early Modern Low Countries II
- 12:00-1:30pm: Lunch
- 1:30-3:00pm: Busines Meeting (all AANS members welcome)
- 3:00-4:30pm: Parallel Sessions
- Session 8: Eastern Europe and Dutch Culture
- “Dutch Cold War Cultural Policy towards Eastern Europe: a case study of Poland” by Michal Wenderski, Poznan University
- “Links Richten: Dutch poets and Soviet socialist realism” by Malgorzata Drwal, Poznan University
- Session 9: Transnational Perspectives II
- “The Multiculturalization of Dutch Letters from within: Towards new affiliative Identifications” by Leila Cherribi, University of
Amsterdam - “Netherlandic Studies in North America: Current Challenges and Opportunities” by Herman De Vries, Calvin University
- “The Multiculturalization of Dutch Letters from within: Towards new affiliative Identifications” by Leila Cherribi, University of
- Session 8: Eastern Europe and Dutch Culture
- 5:15-6:30pm: Walking Tour, “The Acient Native American Monuments of the UW-Madison Campus” with Robert Birmingham