Conference Program

The conference program is available for download in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats as well.

All events take place in the FedEx Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unless otherwise specified.

Thursday, June 5th

8:00 — 9:00 Breakfast and coffee; on-site registration for workshop, 4th floor
9:00 — 4:00 Workshop for Teachers of Dutch — Room 3033
Led by Alice van Kalsbeek
Break for lunch on your own from 12:00-1:30
2:00 — 5:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Atrium of the FedEx Global Education Center
5:00 — 7:00 OPENING RECEPTION
at the Ackland Museum

Friday, June 6th

FedEx Global Education Center
Registration opens at 8:00 A.M.; breakfast and coffee served in Atrium until 9:00

9:00 — 10:30 General History 1 — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Moderator: Margriet Lacy
  • Paul Sellin (University of California-Los Angeles)
    • Ben Jonson at Knodesenburg, July 26, 1591
  • Andrew Fix (Lafayette College)
    • Balthazar Bekker and the Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth
  • Ton Broos (University of Michigan)
    • Early American Children Educated by a Dutch Bestseller: J. F. Martinet (1729-1795 and his Catechism of Nature
Pedagogy — Room 4003
Moderator: Jenneke Oosterhoff
  • Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • Teaching Dutch in an Age of Globalization: The Low Countries and the Netherlands (and the USA) as Plural
  • Inez Hollander (University of California-Berkeley)
    • Dutch for Reading Knowledge
Linguistics 1 — Room 3009
Moderator: Thomas Shannon
  • Jan Noordegraaf (VU Amsterdam)
    • Progress in Language ‘With Special Reference to Dutch & Afrikaans’
  • Robert Kirsner (University of California-Los Angeles)
    • Linguistics, Grammatical Structure, & the Future of Dutch Studies in America
10:30 — 10:45 BREAK
10:45 — 12:15 Art History 1 — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium (this session will end at 12:30)
Moderator: Amy Golahny
  • Christine Sellin (California Lutheran University)
    • Chin-Chucks and Transparent Veils? The Biblical Judah and Tamar in Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Art and Literature
  • Donald Haks (Institute of Netherlands History)
    • Two 17th Century Engravers of the Miseries of War: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) and Jacques Callot (1592-1635)
  • Ludo Beheydt (Catholic University of Leuven)
    • Modernism in Flemish & Dutch Painting: James Ensor and Vincent van Gogh
  • Ingrid Cartwright (Western Kentucky University):
    • Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Artists, Drinking and Identity
General Literature 1 — Room 4003
Moderator: Ton Broos
  • Hugo Bousset (Catholic University of Brussels)
    • The Periodic Table of Europe: On Koen Peeters and Primo Levi
  • Brad Holtman (Mansfield University)
    • From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Dutch Writers in German and English
Colonial Literature 1 — Room 2008/10
Moderator: Inez Hollander
  • Luc Renders (Hasselt University)
    • The Congo Free State (1885-1908) in Dutch and English Literary Texts
  • Joe Delap (Jacksonville State University)
    • Thomas Mann in Curacao? Boeli Van Leeuwen's Gesprek met Joans
12:30 — 2:00 LUNCH on your own
2:00 — 3:30 Art History 2 — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Moderator: Arthur DiFuria
  • Anne Chalard-Fillaudeau (University of Paris-8)
    • Rembrandt as a Culture Figure
  • Martha Hollander (Hofstra University)
    • Rembrandt’s Undone Collar: Art, Manliness and Disarray
  • Amy Golahny (Lycoming College)
    • Dutch Artists Go South to Italy
Cultural Identity 1 — Room 4003
Moderator: Henriette Louwerse
  • Gus Dierick (University of Toronto)
    • Dutch Identity and the ‘Other’: Problematic Assumptions, Shaky Strategies
  • Jaap van Marle (Open University of Amsterdam)
    • Endangered Unity of Dutch in a Globalizing World
  • Jeroen Dewulf (University of California-Berkeley)
    • Globalization and the Re-Invention of Tradition: Dutch Identity from a Hybrid Perspective
3:30 — 3:45 BREAK — Refreshments served in the Atrium
4:00 — 4:45 AANS Business Meeting — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium
5:00 — 6:00 Keynote Address — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium

Michiel van Kempen (University of Amsterdam): Circular Journeys: On Going Native in Postcolonial Studies

Dinner on your own

Saturday, June 7th

8:00 — 10:50 AANS Executive Council Breakfast Meeting—Blue Ridge Room, Carolina Crossroads Restaurant, Carolina Inn; for all other attendees, breakfast and coffee served in the Atrium until 9:00
9:00 — 10:30 Cultural Identity 2 — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf
  • Kees Snoek (Sorbonne, Paris)
    • The Inner Space between Country of Origin and Country of Arrival: The Nominees for the E. du Perron Prize 2007 and Its Theme: Religion
  • Simon Richter (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Remembering and Re-making: Theo van Gogh in America
  • Manfred Wolf (San Francisco State University)
    • Cultural Styles and the Integration of Moroccans into the Netherlands: Some Parallels and Predictions
Linguistics 2 — Room 4003
Moderator: Ray Wakefield
  • Thomas Shannon (University of California-Berkeley)
    • Topic Prominence in Middle Dutch Revisited
  • Rob Howell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • On the Role of Cities in Dialect Continua: the Case of Early Modern Holland
10:30 — 10:45 BREAK
10:45 — 12:15 General History 2 — Room 2008/10
Moderator: Dan Thornton
  • Wyger Velema (University of Amsterdam)
    • Rethinking the Batavian Revolution: Towards a New Internationalism
  • Richard Guy (Cornell University)
    • Where Were You on the Night of the Mutiny? What the Revolt on the Nijenburg Tells Us about Order aboard the Dutch East Indies Company's Ships
Colonial Literature 2 — Room 4003
Moderator: Kees Snoek
  • Eep Francken (Leiden University)
    • “Brown” Literature
  • Olf Praamstra (Leiden University)
    • The Second Generation of Dutch East Indies Writers
12:30 — 2:00 LUNCH on your own
2:00 — 3:30 Art History 3 — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Moderator: Christine Sellin
  • Julie Hochstrasser (University of Iowa)
    • Remapping Dutch Art in Global Perspective: Redefining Methodologies
  • Christopher Atkins (Queen’s College, City University of New York)
    • The Dutchness of Frans Hals’ Group Portraits
  • Teresa Lind (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
    • Vermeer
General Literature 2 — Room 4003
Moderator: Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor
  • Geert Buelens (Utrecht University)
    • Remember Belgium: Neutrality and Artistic Autonomy during World War I
  • Thomas Vaessens (University of Amsterdam)
    • Mustafa Stitou and the Discourses of Western Modernity
  • Henriette Louwerse (University of Sheffield)
    • Spel van misleiding: On Identity and Play in Hafid Bouazza's Een beer in bontjas
3:30 — 3:45 BREAK — Refreshments served in the Atrium
4:00 — 5:00 Keynote Address — The Nelson Mandela Auditorium

Geert van Istendael: In Belgium, the Word ‘Language’ has no Singular
6:00 Closing Reception
Meet buses at entrance to the Carolina Inn for reception at the NC Museum of Art
8:30/9:30 Buses leave NC Museum of Art for the Carolina Inn