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NASA/StudentNASA Fall Event 25 Nov. 2011: “American Borders”
“American Borders: Contact, Conflict and Exchange” Under the auspices of the NASA, and coinciding with the 2nd StudentNASA event. Conceived broadly, “American Borders” constitute the central parameter of this one-day international symposium which focuses on nations, cultures and individuals engaged in or concerned with transatlantic or transnational contact. The symposium will explore the centrality of ...
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Deborah Dash Moore “Joodse Loyaliteiten in de VS” 18 Oct 2011
Deborah Dash Moore is een van de belangrijkste specialisten van de contemporaine Armerikaans joodse geschiedenis. Tijdens de lezing “Loyalty Debates Among American Jews in a Transnational Era, from the Rosenberg Case to the Israel Lobby Controversy,” zal zij tonen hoe, sinds het midden van de vorige eeuw, loyaliteit onderwerp van discussie was onder Amerikaanse joden. ...
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Charles C. Mann “1493″ 18 Oct. 2011
What do Italian tomato sauce, Florida oranges and Thai chili peppers have in common? All are products that are not native to those lands. Every American knows that 1492 was when Columbus “discovered” the New World. It was also the moment when, biologically, the world changed. In his previous bestselling book, 1491, Charles C. Mann ...
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Isabel Wilkerson “The Warmth of Other Suns” 28 Sept. 2011
Almost everything you know about the black American experience relates to one thing: the so-called Great Migration, when millions of people left harsh conditions in the South for a better life in the cities of the North. Isabel Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize this year for her groundbreaking first book The Warmth of Other Suns: ...
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James Gleick “The Information” 1 Nov. 2011
We live in the “information age”–but what is information, actually? In human terms, one might say information is the food that nourishes the mind. But how is it prepared and consumed? James Gleick has been called one of the greatest science writers of all time. Of his previous books, Chaos introduced a new science and ...
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David Sedaris Carré 25 Sept. 2011
David Sedaris, NPR Humorist and Best-selling Author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, will read old and new material at the Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam on 25 September 2011. With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great ...