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Get a Sense of New Netherland: Approaching the Dutch through Sight, Sound, Taste, and Touch
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Huxley Theater
New York State Museum, Albany New York
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Dutch Language Course for Graduate Students - May to June, 2023
2022 New Netherland Institute Annual Conference
Alida Livingston's World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York
October 1, 2022
In Conjunction with the New-York Historical Society
HOW GOLDEN FOR WOMEN WAS THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE?
POSTPONED
Join NNI Director Deborah Hamer & NYU Professor Susanah Romney for this virtual talk sponsored by the New Amsterdam History Center & the New-York Historical Society.
The discussion will explore the social role of women in New Netherland, Brazil, and other places in the expanding Dutch world of the seventeenth century. What pathways and options were available to women in the Dutch empire? What part did social class play in their choices and strategies? How did marriage and local marriage regulations affect the ability of wives and unmarried females to survive and to flourish, or not, in colonial imperial societies? How influential were women in building colonial societies? And how closely, or not, did those societies resemble a Dutch paradigm?
NNI's 2021 Virtual Conference with the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
ANNUAL EVENTS OF THE NEW NETHERLAND INSTITUTE
The NNI Annual Conference, originally named the Rensselaerswijck Seminar, has showcased research into the early history and culture of the Dutch in America.
Held in conjunction with the Annual Conference, the New Netherland Dinner is an evening to share food & fun and hear a speaker like Chip Reynolds, skipper of the Half Moon (pictured.)
Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck Lecture Series
From April to June of 2019, NNI hosted a series of elevent lectures on all things New Netherland, each at a different venue in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and the Capital Region. COVID restrictions prevented us from continuing the series in 2020-2021. We hope to continue this series, albeit virtually, in 2022
Online Exhibits
A Tour of New Netherland
Wander a lost world stretching from Connecticut to Delaware
Historical Timelines
Timeline of the Netherlands & Scandinavia in North America
A pictorial walk through time
For Students
What Was New Netherland?
An introduction to the people and places of Dutch North America
About the New Netherland Institute
For over three decades, NNI has helped cast light on America's Dutch roots. In 2010, it partnered with the New York State Office of Cultural Education to establish the New Netherland Research Center, with matching funds from the State of the Netherlands. NNI is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. More
The New Netherland Research Center
Housed in the New York State Library, the NNRC offers students, educators, scholars and researchers a vast collection of early documents and reference works on America's Dutch era. More
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