Conference program

AADAS 2011
Past and Present:
The Importance of History for Dutch-Americans

June 9-10
Lakeland College
Sheboygan, WI

Thursday, June 9 

8:00-9:00:

Registration

9:00-10:00:

Understanding the Dutch Dynamic in Wisconsin

  • Robert Swierenga/Hans Krabbendam
    Comparing Dutch Catholics and Dutch Protestants in Wisconsin
10:00-10:30:

Break

10:30 – 12:30:

Early Dutch Presence in Wisconsin and the U.S.

  • Pieter Hovens
  • Moccasins and Wooden Shoes: 
  • Dutch Missionaries and Wisconsin Indians, 1834-1940
  • Michael Douma
    The First Dutch Consul in Wisconsin, G.J. Steenwijk and his Transnational Family
  • David Rodenhuis
    The Legacy of the Pioneers and Transition to the 20th Century
  • Yvette Hoitink
    Patterns of emigration from the Achterhoek
12:30- 2:00:

Lunch

2:00-3:30:

The Importance of the Written Word for Dutch Americans

  • James De Jong
    ‘De Ouwe Schrijvers:’A Shared but Unique Spirituality
  • George Harinck
    D.J. Doornink and the Dutch-American Booktrade
  • Gerlof Homan
    Pierre van Paassen’s Tall Tales
3:30-4:00:

Break

4:00 – 5:00:

Panel Session: Training and Encouraging Young Scholars of Dutch American History

Panel Members: Michael Douma, Timothy Nyhof, David Zwart & Robert Swierenga

7 pm:

Banquet

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, Associate Professor of Dutch literature, culture & language and German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Friday, June 10

9:00-10:00:

Dutch Character Sketches

  • Timothy Nyhof 
    The Amazing Adventures of the Cauliflower King: Winnipeg's Klaas De Jong
  • Jan Peter Verhave
    The Dutchness in Paul de  Kruif: different, but not indifferent
10:00-10:30:

Break

10:30-12:00:

Historical Challenges to Dutch American Community Life

  • Huug van den Dool
    Weather, the Dutch, and the Fires of 1871
  • Robert Schoone-Jongen
    Dutch Religion in Riverside: Catholics and Protestants in a Paterson, NJ Neighborhood
  • Janet Sjaarda-Sheeres
    Ecumenicity in the Woods of Virginia: Dutch Immigrants and their congregational life in Amelia County, Virginia 1869 to 1884
12:00-1:30:

Lunch

1:30- 3:00:

The Persistence of Dutch Culture in Wisconsin

  • Jaap van Marle 
    On the Survival of the Frisian Language in Wisconsin
  • David Zwart
    Commemorating the Past: Wisconsin Style
  • Herman De Vries 
    Staying Dutch in Sheboygan: The Challenges of Maintaining a Culture
3:00- 3:30:

Break

3:30-5:00:

New Institutional Projects

  • Hans Krabbendam
    Digitizing the Sheboygan Nieuwsbode
  • Mary Risseeuw
    The History, Development, and Potential of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center
  • Peter Ester/ Nella and Earl William Kennedy
    Compassion and Curiosity: The Long Lost American Diary of Jacob van Hinte

Saturday, June 11

8:30-4:00:

Tours of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center and opportunities to conduct research.

518 Water Street
Sheboygan Falls, WI  53085

 Wednesday, June 8

 9:00-5:00:

Pre-conference tour
Motor coach tour to Little Chute, WI

Join a guided tour by the Little Chute Historical Society to examine the village’s Dutch roots. Visit St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, established in 1836 by Father Theodore J. van den Broek of the Netherlands, the restored Fox River locks and canal system and other historic buildings and sites. Also included on the tour will be the site of the future Little Chute Windmill & Van Asten Visitor Center.