EVENTS
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Republican Education: An Active Instrument of Exclusion.” The Jefferson Lecture Series, Detroit Country Day School Upper School History Department, Beverly Hills, Michigan, October 16, 2019.
“Declarations of Interdependence: The Nature of Dutch–Native Relations in New Netherland, 1624–1664.” 11th Annual Native American Archaeology Roundtable, The Institute for American Indian Studies, Washington, Connecticut, October 29, 2016.
“The View from the Dutch Republic: Protestant Conceptualizations of Indians.” The 35th Annual New Netherland Seminar. Rotterdam Junction, New York, September 15, 2012.
“Indian–Dutch Relations in New Netherland and New York during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century.” Koninklijke Scholengemeenschaap Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, March 9, 2011.
“From Vrienden to Wilden: An Examination of the Terms used by the Provincial Secretaries and Directors of New Netherland to describe their Indian Neighbors.” The 23rd Annual General Meeting of the New Netherland Institute. Albany, New York, May 15, 2010.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Instruments of Murder: Re-Storying the Role of Dutch Americans in Settler Colonialism.” 23rd Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies, June 19, 2021.
“Imagining Indians in the Dutch Republic.” 2020 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, January 9, 2020.
“Members Only: White Supremacy and the Founding of Erasmus Hall Academy.” 22nd Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 14, 2019.
“Declarations of Interdependence: The Nature of Dutch–Native Relations in New Netherland, 1624–1664.” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture 22nd Annual Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts, June 26, 2016.
“Predestined to Failure: Predikanten Missions to the Natives of New Netherland, 1621–1664.” 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies: “Dutch Immigrants on the Plains,” Sioux Center, Iowa, June 3, 2005.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
“Members Only: White Supremacy and the Founding of Erasmus Hall Academy.” History Colloquia Series, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 9, 2019.
“A Matter of Approach: The Making of New Netherland’s History.” History Colloquia Series, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 21, 2015.
“‘Heijdenen’ and ‘Wilden’: Imagining Indians in the Dutch Republic and New Netherland.” Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 4, 2012.
Speaking Request / Contact
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