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SUMMARY:US Midterms: Could the balance be restored?
DESCRIPTION:On November 3rd\, most seats in the US Congress will be up for election. Since winning slight majorities in both houses two years ago\, members of the Republican party have used Congress to routinely approve the president’s initiatives and to block those who seek to limit his power. In November\, this balance could be restored: if the Democrats win enough seats\, Trump’s power could change almost overnight. But what happens if the Republicans retain an even bigger majority? \nIn this edition of Let’s Ask\, Mark L. Thompson will review the origins of the US Congress in light of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. How did the founders of the US conceive the role of the legislative branch? Can the constitutional balance between the legislative and executive branches be restored? And if the Republicans win again\, what will the future of the US look like? \nMark L. Thompson is an early American historian and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Groningen. His most recent work is FoundersChat\, an AI-based research portal that allows users to explore 184\,000 documents associated with “Founding Fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin\, George Washington\, Thomas Jefferson\, and Alexander Hamilton–or to chat with them! \nIn Let’s Ask researchers share their knowledge and answer your questions to provide context to topical issues.
URL:https://americanstudies.nl/event/us-midterms-could-the-balance-be-restored/
LOCATION:Usva\, Munnekeholm 10\, Groningen
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SUMMARY:European Forum on US History: Bastiaan Bouwman
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, 26 October 2026\, Bastiaan Bouwman (Utrecht University) will be the speaker for the next session of the European Forum on US History. \nTitle: ‘Why Do They Fear to Return?’: Haitian Refugees\, Amnesty International\, and Rights-Based Litigation in the United States\, 1973-1980\nSpeaker: Bastiaan Bouwman\nDate: Monday\, 26 October\, from 17:00 to 18:30 CET\nHost: Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po Paris)\nLocation: Online \nPlease register here. \nSee the full invitation here. \n  \nBastiaan Bouwman is Assistant Professor of History of International Relations at Utrecht University\, where he studies the history of human rights\, humanitarianism\, and refugees during the Cold War. He is the author of Liberalism and Liberation: The World Council of Churches and the Global Politics of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming 2026). Bastiaan is also the editor of the forthcoming special issue “Refugees and the Cold War\,” with Cold War History. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University\, the Freie Universität Berlin\, and the German Historical Institute in Washington\, DC. Bastiaan’s current project is entitled “The Rise of Refugee Rights: The Movement to Make Asylum a Human Right\, c. 1945-1995.” His work has been published in the Journal of Global History\, Low Countries Historical Review\, and Contemporary European History\, which in 2021 awarded him ‘Honorable Mention’ for the Contemporary European History Prize. \nIn the 1970s\, thousands of Haitians arrived in the United States by boat\, escaping the repression and immiseration of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s Haiti. Their claims to asylum were met with hostility by US authorities\, however\, who considered them undesirable migrants. The ensuing political and legal struggle\, which pitted a wide-ranging coalition against the US government\, took on added significance against the background of Jimmy Carter’s presidency: Carter promised a moral revival of foreign policy\, including the treatment of refugees. Ultimately\, the Haitian case contributed to a shift from a refugee policy of Cold War selectivity to one based – at least in principle – on universal human rights. This paper focuses especially on Amnesty International’s role as the standard-bearer of the 1970s “human rights movement.” It argues that Amnesty made vital contributions to litigation on Haitians’ behalf and thus helped reframe refugee affairs as a human rights issue.
URL:https://americanstudies.nl/event/european-forum-on-us-history-bastiaan-bouwman/
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SUMMARY:Radboud University – Lux Nijmegen: North American Indigenous Peoples Day
DESCRIPTION:On October 12 and 13\, 2026\, the Radboud University in Nijmegen\, the Netherlands will celebrate North American Indigenous People’s Day. \nWe will listen to\, and engage with\, noted Indigenous activists\, writers\, and educators Tanana Athabascan scholar and poet Dian Million\, Ktunaxa poet and educator Smokii Sumac\, Mohawk storyteller Jeremiah Wolf\, and Puyallup Tribal Elder and Resource Policy Representative Rodney Sisson. With the honoring of treaties as our main theme\, we will be introduced to North American Indigenous struggles of sovereignty and the importance of treaties\, while also thinking about how Indigenous paradigms and ways of living can inform responsibilities towards the environment and other-than-humans in ethical practices of climate and political action.\n\nThe first day will be open to the public with the Netherlands book launch of ‘Voorbij Winnetou & Pocahontas’ (in Dutch) presented by Laura M. De Vos and co-author Katrien Demuynck\, as well as a related exhibition in the Erasmus Hall lobby on campus. Jeremiah Wolf will facilitate a discussion that will allow participants to collectively mobilize their embodied knowledges of environmental care and enact an honoring of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Haudenosaunee Mohawk and the Netherlands. Dian Million and Smokii Sumac will give lectures on the honoring of treaties and our relationships to land\, water\, and our bodies. In the evening\, in collaboration with Radboud Reflects and LUX\, we will be screening the Indigenous documentary Fish War at LUX\, followed by a conversation with Dian Million and Rodney Sission focusing on the question “What can we learn from Indigenous views of nature?” (Tickets can be purchased here.)\n\nThe second day of the event will be a graduate symposium for students\, PhD candidates\, and early-career researchers working in North American Indigenous Studies. You are warmly invited to attend the research workshops in the morning and share your expertise through feedback and questions for the presenters in the afternoon.\n\nExcept for the screening of the documentary\, the entry for the event is free\, but registration is nevertheless required. More detailed information can be found here.
URL:https://americanstudies.nl/event/radboud-university-lux-nijmegen-north-american-indigenous-peoples-day/
LOCATION:4331 CK
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SUMMARY:New Neighbors on the Block: Meet and greet by the John Adams & American Book Center
DESCRIPTION:New to Amsterdam? New to our community? Or just want to meet some new faces? Join us on October 11 for a relaxed meet and greet\, co-hosted by the John Adams Institute and the American Book Center. \nThis is an informal gathering for anyone who has recently landed in Amsterdam — wherever you’ve come from — and wants to feel a little more at home. Current members of our community are just as welcome\, whether you’re looking to meet new people or get more involved in what we do. Click here to register! \nThe John Adams Institute brings noteworthy authors\, journalists\, and thinkers to Amsterdam for talks and public events on politics\, culture\, and ideas — a place to stay curious and connected to what’s happening in the wider world. \nThe American Book Center is Amsterdam’s home for English-language books\, a browsing-and-getting-lost-in-the-shelves kind of place\, and a natural gathering spot for readers and writers alike.  \nTogether\, we’re partners in books and ideas: bringing big names to the stage\, and just as importantly\, creating everyday spaces like this one to connect. Over light refreshments and conversation\, you’ll get a first look at what each organization has to offer — from upcoming talks and events to author nights\, exclusive community events\, and other ways to get involved and meet people along the way. \nNo experience or background needed: just come as you are. \nNote: registration is required and limited to 50 participants.
URL:https://americanstudies.nl/event/new-neighbors-on-the-block-meet-and-greet-by-the-john-adams-american-book-center/
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SUMMARY:Gal Beckerman: Dare to Dissent  – On the Art of Standing Up
DESCRIPTION:On October 5\, 2026\, the John Adams Institute will host an event from 7:30-9:00 PM at Podium Mozaïek\, Bos en Lommerweg 191\, Amsterdam.  \nWhat does it mean to resist in an age shaped by fear\, pressure\, and polarization? Where do we turn for courage—and how do we find our own voice?  \nIn this thought-provoking event\, acclaimed writer Gal Beckerman explores these urgent questions through the lens of his powerful new book How to Be a Dissident. Drawing on the lives of dissidents across time and continents\, from Socrates and Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt\, Beckerman uncovers the shared traits that define those who dare to challenge the status quo. His book is a call to rediscover dissent not as a rare act of heroism\, but as a deeply human capacity: one that each of us can cultivate. The event is moderated by Ikenna Azuike.  \nClick here to read more and buy tickets. \nPlease note: NASA members receive a discount on events organized by the John Adams Institute\, by using the JAI member category when buying tickets.
URL:https://americanstudies.nl/event/gal-beckerman-dare-to-dissent-on-the-art-of-standing-up/
LOCATION:Podium Mozaïek\, Bos en Lommerweg 191\, Amsterdam\, Noord Holland\, Netherlands
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