The John Adams Institute

Past Events

Ever since 1987, we have welcomed an amazing range of top talent to Amsterdam. Some arrive at the height of their fame. Others go on to win Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. All of them offere their personal insights in an intimate setting.

Our evenings combine a lecture or reading by the invited guest and a discussion on stage with our specially selected moderator. Add in questions from the audience and we can promise a fascinating and lively discussion!

To watch our past events on VIDEO click HERE. With special thanks to VPRO weblogs. All rights reserved to the authors.

2013

Anne Applebaum
Dan Hassler-Forest
Mohsin Hamid
Barbara Kellerman

2012

Leo Blokhuis
Chad Harbach
Cullen Murphy
Deborah Scroggins
Walter Isaacson
Gini Reticker
Patrick deWitt
David Mark
Teju Cole
Martha Nussbaum
Stanley Kubrick remembered
Nathan Englander
David Henry Hwang
Peter Bergen
Frans Verhagen
Jeff Kinney
Shane Jett & Gary Nordlinger
Chris Zook
Gayle Lemmon
Madeleine Albright
Tracy Metz

2011

Robert Kaplan
Split: A Divided America
Nicholas Carr
Stephanie Houtzeel
Everybody Works!
Francis Fukuyama
Lawrence Hill
Paul Theroux
Joshua Foer
Marvin Hamlisch
Isabel Wilkerson
Charles C. Mann
James Gleick
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Jeffrey Eugenides

2010

Jonathan Safran Foer
James Ellroy
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Hyphen-Nation Conference
Ron Rash
John Irving
E. Benjamin Skinner
Jon Krakauer
Kathryn Stockett
David Remnick
Bret Easton Ellis
Richard Russo
Jonathan Franzen
Michael Cunningham
Lang Lang
Lionel Shriver
Spike Lee

2009

Malcolm Gladwell
Stewart O'Nan
Michael Pollan
Joseph O'Neill
Henry Hudson Sets Sail
Toni Morrison
Amy Chua
David Leavitt
NY400
David Simon
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Christopher Caldwell
Marvin Hamlisch
Jane Alison

2008

Robert B Reich
Steve Earle
Christopher Hitchens
Madeleine Albright
Amy Bloom
Steve Coll
International Literature Festival
Ben Katchor
Michael Oreskes
Paul Auster
Lisa Jardine
Martin Amis
David Sedaris
Shelby Steele
Dexter Filkins
Chip Taylor

2007

Michael Ruse
Daniel Mason
Daniel Mendelsohn
Ariel Levy
Antoine van Agtmael
Michelle Goldberg
Niall Ferguson
Nathan Englander
Miranda July
John Adams & Peter Sellars
William Easterly
Stedman Graham
Dana Thomas
Nigella Lawson

2006

Jay McInerney
Charles C. Mann
James Salter
Marc Chavannes
Irene Dische
A.M. Homes
Mark Kurlansky
Madeleine Albright
John Irving
Jonathan Franzen
Philip Glass
Al Gore
Marisha Pessl
Tony Judt
Harold McGee

2005

Barbara Ehrenreich
Writers on the Edge
Pauline Maier
Martha Nussbaum
An American Evening
Edward P. Jones
R. B. Bernstein
Tom Regan
Jonathan S. Foer
John Adams in Amsterdam
Lisa See
Jeremy Rifkin
Michael Cunningham
Eric Schlosser
Tom Wolfe
China: The New Superpower?
Jane Fonda
Mark Z. Danielewski
Brian Greene
Karin Slaughter
Eduard van de Bilt
Lewis H. Lapham
Amitai Etzioni

2004

Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Deirdre Bair
Ivo Daalder
Dutch-American Friendship Day
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Siri Hustvedt
Paul Auster
Andrew Sean Greer
Walter Russell Mead
Supreme Court Justice A. Scalia
David McCullough
Arthur Phillips
Louis de Bernières
Russell Shorto

2003

Robert Jan van Pelt
Neal Pollack
Gary Shteyngart
Fay Weldon
Robert Kagan
Paul Krugman
Candace Bushnell
Michael Connelly
Madeleine Albright
Philip Kotler
Jhumpa Lahiri
Michael Ignatieff
James Frey

In the past

Peter Gay
Jeffrey Eugenides
Atul Gawande
Wayne Johnston
Arthur C. Danto
Mark Hertsgaard
George Plimpton
Barbara Kingsolver
Naomi Wolf
John Irving
Chang-rae Lee
Jonathan Franzen
Deborah Tannen
Oliver Sacks
Larry Siedentop
Edmund White
Michael Chabon
L. Paul Bremer III
Julia Alvarez
Robert D. Kaplan
Bill Schneider
Denise Chong
Ryszard Kapuscinski
John Gray
Jared Diamond
Wally Lamb
Jane Urquhart
David Grossman
Paul Theroux
Rick Moody
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mordecai Richler
Peter Sellars
Kristien Hemmerechts
Siri Hustvedt
Stephen Greenblatt
Jonathan Safran Foer
John Adams Year 2005



Upcoming lectures:


03 Jun. 2013  Michael Pollan
11 Jun. 2013  Kim Ghattas
04 Sep. 2013  Margaret Atwood
16 Oct. 2013  Russell Shorto
29 Oct. 2013  Philipp Meyer


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Literature Course


May / June 2013
 
The John Adams Institute presents a new course: 

Storytelling in the Transmedia Age






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The John Adams Institute provides 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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Contact


The John Adams Institute
West-Indisch huis, Herenmarkt 97
1013 EC Amsterdam
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Event calendar:


25 May 2013
ABC Book Signing: A Year in the Life of Face Hunter

27 May 2013
De Rode Hoed: Stadsleven: toerist in eigen stad met Tracy Metz

29 May 2013
De Balie: De Toekomst van de Roman met Tommy Wieringa

12 Jun. 2013
EYE: Dutch movies English subtitles: Anton Corbijn, Inside Out