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Partner Countries - New York - heritage activities Projects CIE Lectures ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 - 2009’ - Lloyd Hotel
This fall the Centre for International Heritage Activities celebrates the Henry Hudson Year with lectures and live music in the Lloyd Hotel with a clear focus on Dutch Manhattan in the seventeenth century. Organized in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age. Speakers are a.o. Michiel van Groesen (UvA), Martine Gosselink (Rijksmuseum) and Jaap Jacobs (independent scholar). In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch, arrived in New York Bay. His ‘discovery’ was the start of a special relationship between The Netherlands and the city of New York that continues to this day. Specialists from various academic and cultural fields will provide fresh insights into different aspects of the short- lived Dutch colony in the New World. The lectures and musical performances will take place in the restaurant of the beautiful Lloyd Hotel as part of their Monday Night program. Lloyd Time on Mondays is partly an ad hoc program. This means that the lectures can be complemented with international guest speakers, which will give the evenings a dynamic character.
Program
(Book sell: ‘Nederlands New York’, Jaap Jacobs - Boom Publishers, 2009)
Music: White Sands (band)
(Book sell: ‘New York - Nieuw Amsterdam’ - Nieuw Amsterdam Publishers, 2009)
Music: Karin Giphart (singer-songwriter)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monday, October 26 - 20:00 Michiel van Groesen ‘The Dutch encounter with the New World: textual and visual
Dr. Michiel van Groesen is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam in Early Modern History, specializing in European representations of the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His current research focuses on Dutch representations of Brazil in early modern prints, maps, and pamphlets. He will also be working on a related project titled Contesting representations of New Netherland, 1652-1702, which will study English, Dutch, and American constructions of a single colony. As part of this project, he is currently involved in preparations for the fourth centenary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York (2009). Fall Lectures in the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New York 2009 You can find further information on these lectures that presents ‘The Native Viewpoint on Henry Hudson’ on our website: www.heritage-actvities.org Jaap Jacobs
As an independent scholar, writer and historian, dr. Jaap Jacobs is specialized in the history of the Dutch in the Americas in the early modern period. He has taught at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, Cornell University, The University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio University. He has published widely on New Netherland and New Amsterdam, including ‘New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth Century America.’ (2005), a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant (2009), ‘Indianenverhalen: De vroegste beschrijvingen van Indianen langs de Book sell: ‘Nederlands New York’, Jaap Jacobs - Boom Publishers, 2009. This is the first event in the CIE ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 – 2009’ Lecture Series. In cooperation with: Boom Publishers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, November 2 - 20:00h Janne Nijman ‘Hugo Grotius, the Law of Nations, and the American Indians.’ Music: White Sands (band)
Dr. Janne Nijman is a senior lecturer and researcher at the International Law Department and a research fellow of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She acts as a guest lecturer at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael" and at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (UvA). Currently she is an editor on the board of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. Nijman is a board member of the Grotiana Foundation, and editor on the board of the Grotiana Journal. She is also a member of the executive board of Oikos, a NGO focused on fair and sustainable globalisation, and Research advisor on Global Justice to The Broker, a bimonthly magazine that aims to 'bridge the gap' between academics and development policy makers.
This is the second event in the CIE ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 – 2009’ Lecture Series. Monday, November 9 - 20:00h ‘The Dutch origins of Manhattan.’
Since February 2009 drs. Martine is Head of the History department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. She started her career as cultural enterpriser and realized exhibitions, publications and cultural projects for museums at home and abroad. She is founder of the cultural collective ‘De Nieuwe Collectie’ and is specialized in picturing of the VOC and the WIC period. This leads a.o. to the development of the database ‘Atlas of Mutual Heritage’ and an exhibition on the maps of Johannes Vingboons in the Kunsthal. Gosselink is initiator of the Dutch Manhattan Heritage Program and the exhibition ‘New Amsterdam. The Island at the Center of the World’which is held in New York (opened September 12, 2009), commissioned by the National Archives of the Netherlands. Martine is connected to the Centre for International Heritage Activities as museum expert. Book sell Martine Gosselink ‘New York - Nieuw Amsterdam’: Nieuw Amsterdam Publishers, 2009 You can purchase a copy of the recently published book of Martine Gosselink ‘New York - Nieuw Amsterdam. The Dutch Origins of Manhattan’ on the night of the lectures in the Lloyd Hotel. Read more: www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/martinegosselink Martine Gosselink on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfES7CdngdQ In cooperation with: Nieuw Amsterdam Publishers This is the third event in the CIE ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 – 2009’ Lecture Series. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, November 16 – 20:00h Frans Blom ‘Selling Manhattan: Dutch Anglo picturing of New Netherland and New
Music: Karin Giphart (singer-songwriter) plays with gitarist John Paul Thijssen songs from her own repertoire.
Dr. Frans R.E. Blom is lecturer at the University if Amsterdam and a specialist in the Vernacular and Neolatin Literature of the Dutch Golden Age. Among his major book publications are: Constantijn Huygens’ autobiography Mijn leven verteld aan mijn kinderen, his travelling diary Journaal van de reis naar Venetië, and his architectural treatise Domus. His current research project Merchandising Intellect explores the relation between Commerce and Art in the Dutch Golden Age, and the way that artists create their own success. Another topic is the visual and literary representation of the New World in Amsterdam. Other publications are: ‘Montaigne and Jacob Cats’ (2007), ‘Of Wedding and War. Henricus Selyns’ Bridal Torch’ (2007), ‘Solliciteren met poëzie. Zelfpresentatie in Constantijn Huygens’ debuutbundel Otia’ (2007), ‘Huygens en de Friese dichter Willem Staeckmans’ (2004), ‘The autobiography of Constantijn Huygens (1998)’. This is the fourth event in the CIE ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 – 2009’ Lecture Series.
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