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 borders and boundaries within United States culture, politics and society, and the situations of contact, conflict and exchange that arise from cross-border encounters. We will look at “borders” in terms of their geographical and political reality (e.g. borders with Canada, Mexico, immigration) as well as in terms of their acquired metaphorical meanings (e.g. the “repeating border,” integration) and their ideological meaning and character (e.g. cultural diplomacy, religion). In addition, we will explore the implications of the porousness of the United States as a national container for literary studies, cultural studies, US foreign and domestic policy, and for the practice of cultural diplomacy.

For the first time, this NASA Fall event coincides with the StudentNASA event. After a shared opening participants can follow one of two diverse tracks or choose to participate in both—there is an academic program (NASA) as well as a student-oriented program (StudentNASA). The opening and closing sessions are attended by both audiences.

More can be found here.

Deborah Dash Moore is Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and a Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History aan de University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Als een van de belangrijkste historici op het gebied van de problematiek van de naoorlogse Amerikaans-joodse identiteit werd haar werk veelvuldig bekroond. Haar eerste boek At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews (1981) bespreekt hoe de kinderen van immigranten een levendige stedelijke samenleving smeedden van joodse en Amerikaanse cultuur. Verder schreef zij onder meer in GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004) over de worsteling van joodse militairen om een joodse en Amerikaanse identiteit te combineren.

Voor reserveringen voor 18 oktober 2011, kunt u gebruik maken van het websiteformulier op de website van het Menasseh ben Israel Instituut.

Moderator: Ruth Oldenziel, University of Eindhoven
Location: West Indisch Huis – Herenmarkt 99 Amsterdam

For more information and tickets, visit the John Adams Institute website.

Moderator: Ruth Oldenziel, University of Eindhoven

In cooperation with the US Embassy, The Hague

Location: West Indisch Huis – Herenmarkt 99 Amsterdam

For more information and tickets, visit the John Adams Institute website.

Moderator: Tracy Metz, NRC Handelsblad
Location: De Duif – Prinsengracht 756 Amsterdam

For more information and tickets, visit the John Adams Institute website.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

David Sedaris is the author Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each of which became a bestseller. There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages. He was the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” His newest book, a collection of fables entitled Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (with illustrations by Ian Falconer), was published in September 2010 and immediately hit the NYT Bestseller Fiction List.

For more information and tickets, visit the website of the Royal Theater Carré.

Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s. MoMA’s 1957 conference ‘Experimental Photography in Color’ featured 20 color photographs by Leiter.

After that, however, Leiter’s personal color photography was, for the most part, not shared with the public. He became better-known as a successful fashion photographer in the 1950s and 60s. All the while, Leiter continued to stroll the streets wherever he was (mostly New York and Paris), making photographs for his own pleasure. He printed some of his black-and-white street photos, but kept most of his color slides tucked away in boxes. It was only in the 1990s that he began to look back at that remarkable color work and start to make prints. His sense of color and densely compressed urban life represents a truly unique vision of those times.

Art critic Roberta Smith wrote in 2005: ‘Mr. Leiter was a photographer less of people than of perception itself. His painter’s instincts served him well in his emphasis on surface, spatial ambiguity and a lush, carefully calibrated palette. But the abstract allure of his work doesn’t rely on soft focus, a persistent, often irritating photographic ploy, or the stark isolation of details, in the manner of Aaron Siskind or early Harry Callahan. Instead, Mr. Leiter captured the passing illusions of everyday life with a precision that might almost seem scientific, if it weren’t so poetically resonant and visually layered.’

For more information visit the Jewish Historical Museum

Werkzaamheden
Archiveren van zowel beeld, geluid als artikelen is een belangrijke taak, net als alle kranten en internetsites bijhouden. Daarnaast gaat de stagiair items produceren voor de correspondenten Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal (NOS TV) en Wessel de Jong (NOS Radio). Andere werkzaamheden zijn bijvoorbeeld het beeld- en krantenarchief bijhouden. Naast het produceren van onderwerpen doe je ook praktijkervaring op, bijvoorbeeld door zelf internetartikelen te schrijven.
In de stageperiode vallen o.a. de voorverkiezingen voor het Amerikaanse presidentschap, waarmee het begin van het verkiezingsseizoen gemarkeerd wordt. Dat betekent dat Bureau Washington een drukke tijd tegemoet gaat. Een absolute vereiste is om ook zelfstandig te kunnen werken

Profiel
We zijn op zoek naar een ambitieuze enthousiaste student met aantoonbare belangstelling voor de journalistiek en de Amerikaanse politiek en samenleving. We zoeken iemand die:
- ervaring heeft met montage en montageprogramma’s (camjo, FTP-en, Avid; hoe meer technische bagage, hoe beter)
- bezig is met een master journalistiek en aantoonbare interesse heeft in nieuws en actualiteiten
- gedreven is om onderwerpen grondig uit te te zoeken
- goed is in regelen en organiseren en van aanpakken weet
- creatieve (eigen) onderwerpen kan bedenken

Solliciteren en meer info via MediaStages

We would like to invite you for our upcoming recording of the popular dutch TV show College Tour. In this show hundreds of students interview, together with our host Twan Huys, one guest with an extraordinary and inspiring story. Former guests were The Dalai Lama, Jesse Jackson, John Malkovich, Madeleine Albright, Steve Ballmer and many more.

How to apply? Go to our website and fill out our application form directly.

Sherry Turkle makes a plea in favour of digital ethics. During the Nexus Masterclass she will start a debate with the students -the most frequent users of social media- about this pressing subject.

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2001 she founded the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

With Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) Sherry Turkle completes her trilogy on the people’s relationships with technology: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984) and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995). She is an expert on mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics.

Location: Tilburg University

For more information and tickets visit the Nexus Instituut website.