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AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS

We are an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to presenting some of the most compelling speakers in the world to European audiences. From poetry to political debate, film to finance, hyperpower hegemony to hip-hop hype, each of our events lights up a different part of the endlessly complex, constantly shifting cultural landscape of the U.S.A.
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Next event: 19 March 2010
John Irving

19 March 2010 - 8PM

John Irving burst onto the American literary scene in 1980 with the publication of The World According to Garp. Since then, through 12 novels, he has become a fixture and a rarity: a writer both critically acclaimed and popularly beloved.

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Aula - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Singel 411 Amsterdam

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The New York Times Magazine

How Christian Were the Founders?

Article by the John Adams Institute's director Russell Shorto
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Universiteit van Amsterdam Interdisciplinary open lecture series
9 February - 18 May 2010:
Yes we can! The American Dream in the 21st Century.
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Holland Festival
1 - 23 June 2010
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Upcoming lectures:
19 Mar. 2010  John Irving
16 Apr. 2010  Kathryn Stockett
21 Apr. 2010  E. Benjamin Skinner

Kathryn Stockett

16 April 2010 - 8PM

The Help
has sat atop the New York Times bestseller list for a full year.  Its popularity is due to its richly rendered story and setting, but also its daring.

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E. Benjamin Skinner

21 April 2010 - 8PM

There are more slaves in the world now than at any other time in history. E. Benjamin Skinner’s A Crime So Monstrous is an in-depth, ground-level account of slavery today.


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Past Events

05 Feb. Jesse Jackson
24 Jan. James Ellroy
14 Jan. J. Safran Foer

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