The John Adams Institute
Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking
Upcoming events
Strangers to Ourselves
Mental Health, Diagnosis & Identity with Rachel Aviv
Race, Class and Feminism in America
Critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson on what it means to belong
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson and the Fight for Planet Earth
The New Anthology
The New Anthology is a community-led, multi-year project that gives new voice to aspects of our shared Dutch-American history by connecting stories and perspectives that have often been overlooked or purposefully ignored. Visit the online collection to find out more!
Get acquainted with the John Adams by watching recordings of our lectures or listening to our podcast ‘Bright Minds’.
About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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American culture in the Netherlands
Music photography exhibition at Elliott Gallery
Elliott Gallery in Amsterdam is hosting Framing the Beat, a retrospective exhibition of music photography by David Corio opening on October 7th. Corio portrayed multiple American artists like James Brown, Nina Simon, Public Enemy, Grace Jones, and many others.
ITA performs the Lehman Trilogy
In the middle of the 19th century, three Jewish brothers emigrate from Bavaria to America. In the Deep South they start a small fabric shop and become wealthy in the cotton trade. Their family business develops into a dizzying financial empire that is handed down from generation to generation. In 2008 it is jointly responsible for the financial and banking crisis. By ITA-Ensemble on 21 and 28 Sept, in Dutch with English subtitles.