CITIES IN REVOLT:  The Dutch-American Atlantic, ca. 1650-1815 NOVEMBER
13-14, 2009
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Seventeenth-Century Histories, Eighteenth-Century Memories, Fri. Nov
13,
9:30-11:30
Chair: Karen Kupperman (NYU)

- Virginie Adane (EHESS): The Evolution of a New Netherland Narrative:
The Penelope Stout Story, 17th-19th Centuries

- Paul Finkelman (Albany Law): Jews and Other Minorities in New
Netherland and Early New York:  The Beginning of Religious Freedom in
America

- Martine van Ittersum (U. Dundee): Filial Piety versus Republican
Liberty? The Cornets de Groot Family in Rotterdam and the Legacy of
Hugo
Grotius, 1748-1798

Comment: Evan Haefeli (Columbia)

American Political Events in Dutch Atlantic Perspective Fri., Nov 13,
1:30-3:30

Chair: Hans Krabbendam (Roosevelt Study Ctr.)

- Michiel van Groesen (U. A'dam): New Netherland vs. New York:
Contested Representations of a Colony, 1664-1673

- Megan Lindsay (Yale): Leislerian and Anti-Leislerian Political
Ideologies in an Atlantic Context

- Benjamin L. Carp (Tufts): Did Dutch Smugglers Provoke the Boston Tea
Party?

Comment: Ned Landsman (Stony Brook)

Keynote address:  Fri. Nov 13, 4:00-5:30

Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study): The Dutch Cities,
Radical Enlightenment and the 'General Revolution,' 1776-1790

Reception to follow in honor of the publication of Four-Centuries
ofDutch-American Relations (SUNY Press)

War, Trade and Politics in the Dutch-American Atlantic Sat. Nov. 14,
10:00-12:00
Chair: Herb Sloan (Barnard)

- Christian Koot (Towson): Looking Beyond Sugar: Dutch Trade,
Barbados,
and the Making of the English Empire

- Thomas Truxes (Trinity College): Dutch-Irish Cooperation in the
Mid-Eighteenth-Century Wartime Atlantic

- Victor Enthoven (Netherlands Defense Academy / Free U. A'dam): St.
Eustatius: The Rise and Fall of an Emporium

Comment: Jaap Jacobs

Dutch and American Republicanisms Sat. Nov 14, 1:30-3:30

Chair: Evan Haefeli (Columbia)

- Wyger Velema (U. A'dam): The Reception of Classical Sources in Dutch
and American Republicanism

- Arthur Weststeijn (European U. Inst.): The American Fortunes of the
Dutch Republican Model: De la Court, Oglethorpe and Madison

- Joris Oddens (U. A'dam): No Extended Sphere: Gerhard Dumbar and the
Batavian Understanding of the American Constitution

Comment: Andrew Shankman (Rutgers-Camden)

Travelers and Friends in the Age of Revolution Sat. Nov. 14, 4:00-6:00

- Annie Jourdan (U. A'dam): Théophile Cazenove, Jacques-Pierre
Brissot,
and Joel Barlow: Three Transatlantic Actors in a Revolutionary Era

- Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Columbia): Revolutionary Epistolarity:
J.D.van
der Capellen and Samuel Adams

- Joost Rosendaal (Nijmegen): A Dutch Revolutionary Refugee in the
United States: Francis Adrien van der Kemp and his Circle

Comment: Cathy Matson (U. Delaware / PEAES)

All sessions take place at Deutsches Haus, Columbia University,
located
at 420 W. 116th St., New York, NY.

For more information, or to register to attend, please visit the
conference website or contact the organizers:

http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?context=standalone&brand=history_new&pop=hist_calendar

 

Organizers:

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal ([log in to unmask]); Wijnie de Groot
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Conference committee: 

Evan Haefeli (Columbia), Karen Kupperman (NYU),
Simon Schama (Columbia)

Sponsors:

The Department of History, Columbia University, with support from the
Nederlandse Taalunie in connection with the Queen Wilhelmina
Professorship, Netherland-America Foundation, Roosevelt Study Center,
New York Council for the Humanities, Consulate-General of the
Netherlands, New York, West European National Resource Center at
Columbia

 
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