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For more than twenty years, we have welcomed an amazing range of top talent to Amsterdam. Some arrived at the height of their fame. Others went on to win Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. All of them offered their personal insights to people like you at the John Adams Institute.

We are happy to announce a collaboration with VPRO Digitaal for the videos of our events. Please click the name of the event to view the video.

Others videos:
- 20 May 2009 Toni Morrison by the John Adams Institute
- 27 May 2009 Amy Chua by the Universiteit van Utrecht
- 16 June 2009 David Leavitt by De Harmonie

2010

Jonathan Safran Foer
James Ellroy
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Hyphen-Nation Conference

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
Ariel Levy
Antoine van Agtmael
Michelle Goldberg
Niall Ferguson
Nathan Englander
Miranda July
John Adams & Peter Sellars
William Easterly
Daniel Mendelsohn
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

John Adams Year 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
Stephen Greenblatt

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
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mark Hertsgaard
George Plimpton
Barbara Kingsolver
Jonathan Spence
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
Scott Turow
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mordecai Richler
Peter Sellars
Kristien Hemmerechts
Siri Hustvedt


Upcoming lectures:
10 Mar. 2010  Ron Rash
19 Mar. 2010  John Irving
16 Apr. 2010  Kathryn Stockett
21 Apr. 2010  E. Benjamin Skinner

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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Past guests

5 February
Jesse Jackson
24 January
James Ellroy
14 January
Jonathan Safran Foer

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