New Netherland Annual Conference
For over four decades, the Annual Conference of the New Netherland Institute (previously known as the Rensselaerswyck Seminar and subsequently the New Netherland Seminar) has brought the best research on New Netherland to a venue in the northeast in the fall.
Our most recent conference, the 44th, in October 2022, was Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York, held in conjunction with the New-York Historical Society.
Past Conferences and Seminars
Programs for all seminars are available below.
Selected papers for Seminars I through X were published in A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, Volume 1.
Selected presentations from the 2012 and 2013 seminars can be seen on our Videos page. The 2021 and 2022 conferences are available on video in their entirety.
XLIV
Alida Livingston’s World: Women in New Netherland and Early New York
October 1, 2022 – Watch the Video
XLIII
The Black Experience in Dutch New York
October 23, 2021 Watch the Video
XLII
New Directions on the Early Dutch
October 5, 2019
XLI
Conflict and Collaboration in the New World
September 22, 2018
XL
Women in New Netherland
September 22 and 23, 2017
XXXIX
From Pavonia to the Garden State: New Jersey’s Dutch Past
September 23 and 24, 2016
XXXVIII
The Dutch in America Across the Centuries: Connections and Comparisons
September 18 and 19, 2015
XXXVII
XXXVI
The Dutch Revolt and New Netherland
October 5, 2013
XXXV
New Scholars Present New Research on New Netherland
September 14–15, 2012
XXXIV
The Dutch on the Delaware: New Netherland’s South River
September 16–17, 2011
XXXIII
The Company Strikes Back: 1673 Recovery of New Netherland
September 25, 2010
XXXII
Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s Colonie: The Beginning of European Settlement of the Upper Hudson
October 1–3, 2009
XXXI
Neighbors in the New World: New Netherland and New France
September 13, 2008
XXX
The Truce, 1609–1621
September 15, 2007
XXIX
From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange
June 8–10, 2006
XXVIII
The Dutch in the Caribbean
September 18 and 19, 2005
XXVII
Early Modern Albany: Colonial Intersections in the Dutch New World
October 9, 2004 October 9, 2004
XXVI
Nieuw Amsterdam: A Dutch City in the New World
September 20, 2003
XXV
Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the Edge of the Atlantic World
September 21, 2002
XXIV
New Netherland at the Millennium: The State of New World Dutch Studies
October 2001
A two-day conference in conjunction with the Holland Society of New York
XXIII
New Light on New Netherland
September 2000
XXII
New Netherland Through the Decades
September 1999
XXI
Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in New Netherland
September 1998
XX
The West India Company and the Atlantic World
September 1997
XIX
The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer
September 1996
XVIII
“Neighbourlie Correspondencye”: Relations between New Netherland and New England
September 1995
XVII
Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research
September 1994
XVI
Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley
October 1993
XV
The Dutch in the Age of Exploration
September 1992
XIV
The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664
September 1991
XIII
New Netherland and the Frontier
September 1990
XII
The Age of Leisler
September 1989 September 1989
XI
Domestic Life in New Netherland
September 1988
X
A New Netherland Hutspot
September 1987
IX
Dutch Foundations of Albany
September 1986
VIII
Merchants and Traders of New Netherland and Early New York
September 1985
VII
Education in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies
September 1984
VI
Blacks in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies
February 1983
V
Historical Archeology
September 1982
IV
Hudson Valley Families
September 1981
III
Crime and Punishment in New Netherland
September 1980
II
Agriculture and Farm-related Industries
September 1979
I
Seminar on Rensselaerswijck
April 1979
