For over four decades, the Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute (previously known as the Rensselaerswyck Seminar and subsequently the New Netherland Seminar) has brought the best research on New Netherland to a venue in the northeast in the fall.
Our most recent conference, the 44th, in October 2022, was Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York, held in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society.
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PAST CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Programs for all seminars are available below.
Selected papers for Seminars I through X were published in A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, Volume 1, and are now available online.
Selected presentations from the 2012 and 2013 seminars can be seen on our Videos page. The 2021 and 2022 conferences are available on video in their entirety.
2021 Video: The Black Experience in Dutch New York
2022 Video: Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York
Audio of the presentations from the 2015 seminar/conference can be heard here.
In 2020, NNI held no conference due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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XLIV
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Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York
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October 1, 2022 Watch the Video |
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XLIII
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The Black Experience in Dutch New York
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October 23, 2021 Watch the Video |
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XLII
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New Directions on the Early Dutch
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October 5, 2019 |
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XLI
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Conflict and Collaboration in the New World
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September 22, 2018 |
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XL
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Women in New Netherland
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September 22 and 23, 2017 |
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XXXIX
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From Pavonia to the Garden State: New Jersey's Dutch Past
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September 23 and 24, 2016 |
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XXXVIII
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The Dutch in America Across the Centuries: Connections and Comparisons
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September 18 and 19, 2015 |
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XXXVII
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1614
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September 20, 2014 |
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XXXVI
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The Dutch Revolt and New Netherland
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October 5, 2013 |
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XXXV
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New Scholars present New Research on New Netherland
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September 14-15, 2012 |
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XXXIV
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The Dutch on the Delaware: New Netherland's South River
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September 16-17, 2011 |
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XXXIII
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The Company Strikes Back: 1673 Recovery of New Netherland
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September 25, 2010 |
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XXXII
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s Colonie: The Beginning of European Settlement of the Upper Hudson
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October 1-3, 2009 |
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XXXI
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Neighbors in the New World: New Netherland and New France
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September 13, 2008 |
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XXX
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The Truce, 1609-1621
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September 15, 2007 |
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XXIX
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From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange
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June 8-10, 2006 |
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XXVIII
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The Dutch in the Caribbean
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September 17, 2005 |
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XXVII
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Early Modern Albany: Colonial Intersections in the Dutch New World
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October 9, 2004 |
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XXVI
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Nieuw Amsterdam: A Dutch City in the New World
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September 20, 2003 |
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XXV
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Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the Edge of the Atlantic World
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September 21, 2002 |
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XXIV
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New Netherland at the Millennium: The State of New World Dutch Studies was a two-day conference done in conjunction with the Holland Society of New York.
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October 2001 |
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New Light on New Netherland
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September 2000 |
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New Netherland through the Decades
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September 1999 |
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Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in New Netherland
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September 1998 |
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The West India Company and the Atlantic World
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September 1997 |
| XIX |
The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer
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September 1996 |
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"neighbourlie correspondencye" Relations between New Netherland and New England
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September 1995 |
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Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research
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September 1994 |
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Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley
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October 1993 |
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The Dutch in the Age of Exploration
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September 1992 |
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The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664
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September 1991 |
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New Netherland and the Frontier
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September 1990 |
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The Age of Leisler
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September 1989 |
| XI |
Domestic Life in New Netherland
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September 1988 |
| X |
A New Netherland Hutspot
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September 1987 |
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Dutch Foundations of Albany
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September 1986 |
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Merchants and Traders of New Netherland and Early New York
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September 1985 |
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Education in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies
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September 1984 |
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Blacks in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies
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February 1983 |
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Historical Archeology
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September 1982 |
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Hudson Valley Families
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September 1981 |
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Crime and Punishment in New Netherland
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September 1980 |
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Agriculture and Farm-related Industries
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September 1979 |
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Seminar on Rensselaerswijck
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April 1979 |
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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