The John Adams Institute
Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking
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The New Anthology
The New Anthology is a community-led, multi-year project that gives new voice to aspects of our shared Dutch-American history by connecting stories and perspectives that have often been overlooked or purposefully ignored. Visit the online collection to find out more!
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About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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American culture in the Netherlands
Documentaries about or by Americans at IDFA (14-24 Nov)
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will screen several documentaries about American topics or by American directors. One of them is Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal which shows the spectacular debates between the ultraconservative journalist William F. Buckley and the progressive author Gore Vida in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election in 1968. Click here for dates, locations and more info.
ITA Ensemble presents 'Giovanni's Room'
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is the story of David, an American in France who reminisces about his time in Paris opens. It is the city of expats, liaisons, and violence. Here, David awaits the return of his fiancée Hella. But when he meets Giovanni, a charismatic Italian bartender, the two men become entangled in an intense affair. After three months, David’s fiancée returns and he is forced to make a choice. By ITA Ensemble from January – March 2025.