NNI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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 upcoming conference is 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

Download the Event Schedule.

View the Conference Bios.

Register here: https://crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/conference/

The New Netherland Institute gratefully acknowledges Dutch Culture USA which provided financial support to make this event possible.  

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.

 

 

XLIV

 Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York

 

October 1, 2022 Watch the Video

XLIII

 The Black Experience in Dutch New York

 

October 23, 2021  Watch the Video 

XLII

New Directions on the Early Dutch 

 

October 5, 2019 

XLI

Conflict and Collaboration in the New World 

 

September 22, 2018 

XL

Women in New Netherland 

 

September 22 and 23, 2017 

XXXIX

From Pavonia to the Garden State: New Jersey's Dutch Past

September 23 and 24, 2016

XXXVIII

 

The Dutch in America Across the Centuries: Connections and Comparisons

 

September 18 and 19, 2015

XXXVII

 

1614 

September 20, 2014

XXXVI

The Dutch Revolt and New Netherland 

October 5, 2013

XXXV

New Scholars present New Research on New Netherland
 

September 14-15, 2012

XXXIV

 The Dutch on the Delaware: New Netherland's South River
 

September 16-17, 2011

XXXIII

The Company Strikes Back: 1673 Recovery of New Netherland
 

September 25, 2010

XXXII

Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s Colonie: The Beginning of European Settlement of the Upper Hudson 
 

October 1-3, 2009

XXXI

 

Neighbors in the New World: New Netherland and New France
 
September 13, 2008

XXX

 

The Truce, 1609-1621

September 15, 2007

XXIX

 

From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange
 
June 8-10, 2006

XXVIII

 

The Dutch in the Caribbean 
 
September 17, 2005

XXVII

 

Early Modern Albany: Colonial Intersections in the Dutch New World
 
October 9, 2004

XXVI

 

Nieuw Amsterdam: A Dutch City in the New World
 
September 20, 2003

XXV

 

Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the Edge of the Atlantic World
 
September 21, 2002

XXIV

 

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.

 
October 2001
XXIII New Light on New Netherland

 
September 2000
 XXII New Netherland through the Decades


 
September 1999
  XXI Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in New Netherland


 
September 1998
   XX The West India Company and the Atlantic World


 
September 1997
  XIX The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer


 
September 1996
XVIII "neighbourlie correspondencye" Relations between New Netherland and New England

 
September 1995
 XVII Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research

 
September 1994
  XVI Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley

 
October 1993
   XV The Dutch in the Age of Exploration

 
September 1992
  XIV The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664

 
September 1991
 XIII New Netherland and the Frontier

 
September 1990
  XII The Age of Leisler

 
September 1989
   XI Domestic Life in New Netherland

 
September 1988
   X A New Netherland Hutspot

 
September 1987
   IX Dutch Foundations of Albany

 
September 1986
 VIII Merchants and Traders of New Netherland and Early New York

 
September 1985
  VII Education in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies

 
September 1984
   VI Blacks in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies

 
February 1983
    V Historical Archeology

 
September 1982
   IV Hudson Valley Families

 
September 1981
  III Crime and Punishment in New Netherland

 
September 1980
   II Agriculture and Farm-related Industries

 
September 1979
    I Seminar on Rensselaerswijck

 
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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