New Netherlands Institute (NNI) hosts the 42nd Annual Conference October 5th, at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
NNI will proudly welcome six scholars who demonstrate the breadth of today’s research on New Netherland and its legacy. Ian Stewart will look beyond form and style to present Netherlandish architecture as material culture and reveal the intricacies of the lives lived within those buildings; Julie van den Hout will present her digital project that mines primary source documents to collect data on ship voyages between the Dutch Republic and New Netherland (1609–1664); Chelsea Teale will explore the value, use, and management of wetlands in New Netherland and place them in a key position in the region’s cultural landscape; Shaun Sayres will rectify the lack of scholarly attention paid to the Susquehannocks in the Delaware Valley in the seveteenth century and demonstrate their key imperial role alongside the Dutch, English, and Swedes; Jaap Jacobs will detail the diplomatic, political, and hierarchical context of Dutch and English land claims in North America in the seventeenth century; and Michael Douma will present his analysis of hundreds of runaway slave advertisements from 1730-1820 in which the runaway speaks Dutch or with a Dutch accent.
For more information and to register, see the conference website.