Past Conferences & Proceedings
All times are EASTERN Daylight TIME
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2021
10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. KEYNOTE SPEECH
Chair:
George Harinck: “The Dutch-American Academic Story”
11:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. SESSION ONE
Chair:
Suzanne Sinke “The Stories We Keep, the Stories We Lose”
Mary Risseeuw “The Forgotten Stories”
12:15 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. LUNCH
1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. SESSION TWO
Chair:
Penny Walters “The Psychology of Searching”
Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor “Stories of Transnational Identification”
2:15 P.M. to 3:15 P.M. SESSION THREE
Chair:
Michael Douma “Dutch-Speaking Slaves in New York and New Jersey”
Becky Ganis “Wessel Eldenkam and the Surhuisterveen Forty-Six”
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE 2021
10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. SESSION FOUR
Chair:
Stephen Staggs “Instruments of Murder”
Robert Schoone-Jongen “From Nieuwliet to the North Ward—Abraham Vermeulen and the Building of the Dutch-American Community in the Passaic Valley.”
11:15 A.M to 12:15 P.M. SESSION FIVE
Chair:
Rhonda Pennings “David Cornel De Jong”
Kent Van Til “A Name for Herself”
12:15 P.M. to 1:00 a P.M. LUNCH
1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. SESSION SIX
Chair:
Lisa Zylstra “Pella Dutch Bakery”
Timothy Nyhof “Father Gerlacus van den Elsen-De Borenapostal”
2:15 P.M. to 3:15 P.M. SESSION SEVEN
Chair:
David Zwart “Shipwrecks, Fires, and Pandemics: Remembering Disaster Among Dutch Americans”
Justin Vos “Johanna Veenstra”