“People on the move: migration movements from the Southern to the Northern Netherlands in the time of the Dutch Revolt"

“Painting New Netherland: An Art Historian’s Perspective on the Visual Culture of New Netherland.” Alena M. Buis, PhD Candidate Art History, Queen’s University, Toronto

“The New Netherland Landdag, the development of a Dutch assembly (1649- 1664)” Brecht Cornelisse, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

“Curating Van der Donck’s New Netherland” Bethany Romanowski, Guest Curator at the Vander Ende-Onderdonk House in Queens, New York

“The New Netherland Landdag, the development of a Dutch assembly (1649- 1664)” Brecht Cornelisse, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

“Marriage Law in New Netherland, 1621-1664.” Deborah Hamer, PhD Candidate in History Columbia University

“New Light on an Old Story: Re-examining the English Invasions of New Amsterdam, 1660-1664” Dennis Maika, 2012 Senior Scholar in Residence at the New Netherland Research Center, Fellow of the Holland Society of New York, the New Netherland Institute, and the New York Academy of History

“A man and his sloop: Abraham Staats on the North River and beyond.” Eric Ruijssenaars, 2011 Senior Scholar in Residence at the New Netherland Research Center, Dutch Archives, Leiden, the Netherlands.

“Buildings on Paper: Our Current Knowledge and Understanding of New Netherlandic Architecture.”Jeroen van den Hurk, Principal Architectural Historian at Coastal Carolina Research, Tarboro, NC

“The View from the Dutch Republic: Protestant Conceptualizations of Indians.” Stephen T. Staggs, Western Michigan University

“Trading places: men, women and the negotiation of gendered roles in the port of Nieuw Amsterdam.” Virginie Adane, EHESS, (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Paris

In a talk from NNI's 2012 summer institute for elementary and middle school teachers, artist, writer, and re-enactor Arthur Kirmss explains the history of wampum and demonstrates how the shell beads were made, using reproduction tools and 17th-century techniques.