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The Island 2009

A digital-historical adventure about the relationship between
New York and Amsterdam.

Organized by the John Adams Institute & the Waag Society in  September 2009.



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Upcoming lectures:
17 Sep. 2010  Bret Easton Ellis
27 Sep. 2010  Richard Russo
21 Oct. 2010  Jonathan Franzen
02 Nov. 2010  Michael Cunningham
18 Nov. 2010  Lang Lang

Richard Russo

27 September 2010
That Old Cape Magic


Where Richard Russo’s recent novels Empire Falls and Bridge of Sighs were epic in scale, his eighth book, That Old Cape Magic is smaller: a warmly comic portrait of a man in midlife crisis.

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Our Past Events VIDEOS on VPRO's weblogs:

   14-Jan. Jonathan Safran Foer
   24-Jan. James Ellroy
05-Feb. Jesse Jackson
10-Mar.  Ron Rash
21-Apr.   E. Benjamin Skinner
28-Apr.  Jon Krakauer
03-Jun.  Kathryn Stockett
08-Jun.  David Remnick

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Our Mission


The mission of the John Adams Institute is to provide a window onto the United States for Dutch audiences. Our main way of carrying this out is by bringing notable Americans--novelists, politicians, historians, scientists, screenwriters, poets--to the Netherlands, and having them talk about their work and their insights.

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