Past Events

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.

• 5 February 2010 Jesse Jackson
• 24 January 2010 James Ellroy
• 14 January 2010 Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Our mission

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