Conference Schedule

Saturday November 7

9:30 – 9:45:  Doors Open

9:45-10:  Opening Remarks

10 – 11:15

Panel 1: Intercolonial Cooperation

Moderator: Alison Games (Georgetown University)

• Elizabeth Hines (University of South Florida), New Netherland’s Guide to Accepting the Banished
• Evan Haefeli (Texas A & M University), Franco-Dutch Relations & the Fate of New Netherland
• Thomas Wickman (Trinity College), The Dutch Low Countries, the Saybrook Network, and the Pequot War

11:15 – 11:30: Break

11:30– 12:45

Panel 2: Dutch-Indigenous Histories, Sponsored by the Holland Society of New York

Moderator: Maeve Kane (University at Albany, State University of New York)

• BJ Lillis (Iona College), Land, Property, and Peace: Tracing Relationships between the Van Rensselaers and Mohicans in Anglo-Dutch New York
• Mark Meuwese (University of Winnipeg), Reading about the Mohawks in the Context of the Expanding Dutch Global Empire
• Robert Caldwell (University at Buffalo), The Jannson-Visscher map of North America

12:45 – 2:00  Lunch on the Fourth Floor (Free for Registered Conference Attendees)

2:00 – 3:15:  Roundtable: New Netherland Slavery in Global Perspective

Moderator: Dennis Maika, New Netherland Institute

• Andrea Mosterman (University of New Orleans), Half-Freedom Reconsidered: An Examination of New Netherland & Partial Manumissions in a Global Context
• Kyle Dieleman (Dordt University), Providence and Property: Divine Care and the Language of Slave Trading in the Correspondence of New Netherland
• Virginie Adane (Nantes Université), French Connections: Franco-Dutch rivalries, slavery and settlement in Schenectady
• Nicole Maskiell (Dartmouth College), Local Lives, Global Slavery: Visualizing the Documentary Record of New Netherland

3:15 – 3:30  Break

3:30 – 4:45

Panel 4: New Netherland’s Trade & Navigation

Moderator: Wim Klooster (Clark University)

• Anke Van Wagenberg (American Federation of Arts), Old Hats! Insight in Dutch Beaver Hats
  Jennifer Motter (William & Mary), Imagined Connections and Real Complications: Plans for Trade within the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic
• Julie van den Hout (Leiden University), A Multi-Disciplinary Assessment of the 1638 Hurricane at St. Kitts
• Jonas Danen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), We are sending you some apples and pear seeds…The Value of Dutch Colonial Gardens in New Netherland

4:45 – 5:30:  Book Conversation

Deborah Hamer in Conversation with Alex Bick (University of Virginia) about his new book Minutes of Empire: Dutch West India Company Politics, 1618-1648 (Oxford University Press, 2026)

5:30 – 7:  Reception for registered attendees

End Day 1

Sunday, November 8

9:30 – 9:45:  Doors Open

9:45 – 11:00

Panel 5: Objects and the Histories They Tell

Moderator: Stephanie Porras (Tulane University)

• Guillermo Pupo Pernet (Emory University), The Diplomacy of Indigenous Objects: The Baston de Mando in Venezuela and Suriname
• Carrie Anderson (Middlebury College), From Leiden to Middlebury (and back again): The Many Lives of a Lead Cloth Seal
• Lucayo Cassilas (University of California, Berkeley), Indian Sewant and African Fetissos: Mediums for Euro-Indigenous Relations in the Dutch Atlantic World During the Seventeenth Century

11:00 – 11:15  Break

11:15 – 12:30:

Panel 6: English New York’s Dutch Connections

Moderator: Chelsea Teale (New Netherland Research Center)

• Claire Tucker (University of Chicago), Reconstructing Law in Imperial Crises: Legal Pluralism and Authority in New Netherland and New England
• Damiet Schneeweisz (Victoria & Albert Museum), Circum-Atlantic Crosscurrents: Nehemiah Partridge in Jamaica
• Laura Macaluso (Independent Scholar), Global Encounters in a Dutch American Estate: Reimagining Mount Pleasant

12:30-12:45:  Concluding Remarks: Russell Shorto

This conference is supported by Dutch Culture USA, a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the
United States.