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  • Live From New Amsterdam: Johannes Vermeer

    In his new biography, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found (Norton, 2026), Andrew Graham-Dixon offers a startling new perspective on one of history’s most beloved artists. Join Russell Shorto as he talks to Graham-Dixon about Vermeer's unique milieu and recounts the detective work that led him to unravel these mysterious paintings.

  • Old Masters, New Amsterdam

    This first-of-its-kind exhibition uses the paintings of Rembrandt and his contemporaries to help us envision life in the little Dutch settlement that would become New York.

  • Live From New Amsterdam: Revolutionary Women

    Histories of the Revolutionary War usually focus on men, but women played an important part in the war, too. Join New Netherland Institute director Deborah Hamer as she talks to Dr. Anna Danziger Halperin, Director of the Center for Women's History at New York Historical, about the new exhibition Revolutionary Women (opening May 29) Learn more about what women did during the American Revolution and how New York's women coped with the British occupation.

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  • Live From New Amsterdam: Spinoza and God

    Join the New Netherland Institute on Thursday, September 24th at noon for the first episode of Live From New Amsterdam of the season. Russell Shorto will speak with Steven Nadler about Baruch Spinoza and how his works were understood in the 17th century and the enduring fascination with them in the centuries that followed.
    Live From New Amsterdam is a joint, zoom-only program of the New Netherland Institute and the New Amsterdam Project at New York Historical.

  • Live From New Amsterdam: “America is Us”

    Geerten Waling’s new Dutch book Amerika, dat zijn wij  argues that many of the ideas that shaped America’s founding were developed in the Dutch Republic of the 1600s, and reached the American founders both directly—through New Netherland and Dutch political practice—and indirectly, through John Locke's years in the Netherlands. Join Russell Shorto, Director of the New Amsterdam Project, and Geerten Waling as they discuss the Dutch influence on American beginnings. 

  • From Wenters to Wisconsin: Dutch Migration Through Film & Music

    The program features a selection of short music films by Dutch animation artist Udo Prinsen, including From Wenters to Wisconsin, a poetic short inspired by the experiences of Dutch immigrants who left their homes in the 1840s in search of greater prosperity in the United States.

  • New Netherland Institute Annual Conference 2026

    Join the New Netherland Institute for an exploration of some of the variety of ways in which New Netherland connected to the world beyond its borders on November 7-8 in Albany, NY.

  • Live From New Amsterdam: The Ancient House

    Join New Netherland Institute director Deborah Hamer for a discussion with Dr. Erin Kramer about her new book The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands (UNC Press, 2026), which explores how Albany was established as a center of cooperation between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee.

  • NNI Student Scholar Research Grant Applications due February 15, 2027

    The grant covers a period of one week to three months in residence and provides a stipend up to $5,000. A time frame for fulfilling the grant requirements will be established in consultation with the director of the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC). No housing, travel funds, or health insurance are provided. Applications are due by February 15.

  • Charles W. Wendell Research Grant due February 15th, 2027

    The New Netherland Institute is pleased to offer research grants with financial support from the estate of Charles W. Wendell. These annual grants honor the memory of Dr. Charles W. Wendell, a valued trustee, vice-president, and president of the New Netherland Institute’s Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2015.

  • Fulbright-NNRC Student Scholar Research Grant Applications due November 1, 2027

    The New Netherland Institute provides a grant of $6,000 for research, which is intended to defray the cost of a three-month residence at the NNRC, with the research taking place at the NNRC itself, the New York State Library and the New York State Archives in Albany, New York. The research must take place in the field of New Netherland History and the Dutch Atlantic World, using the Records of New Netherland. Genealogical research is excluded.

  • Alice P. Kenney Memorial Award Applications due March 1st, 2027

    The New Netherland Institute is the recipient of an annual grant from the Alice P. Kenney Memorial Trust Fund that enables the Institute to award an annual prize of $5,000 to an individual or group who has made a significant contribution to colonial Dutch studies and/or has encouraged understanding of the significance of the Dutch colonial experience in North America by research, teaching, writing, speaking, or in other ways.