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Look Ahead:
Upcoming events
at the RSC in 2002
Each
year the RSC hosts the annual meeting of the Netherlands American
Studies Association in June.
In the
month April in even-numbered year European Historians of the
United States meet in the RSC for a conference.
Apart
from these events the RSC stages international seminars or conferences
on specialized subjects and participates in conferences organized
by related institutes.
The following
conferences are on the roll:
- On
12 April 2002 The Theodore Roosevelt American History Awards
2001 will be awarded. These annual RSC prizes are awarded
to the three best M.A. theses on an American history topic
written by Dutch university students in the preceding academic
year.
- On
18-19 April 2002 the RSC organizes a conference on "Modelling
American Culture: American Magazines in the Twentieth Century."
- On
29-31 May 2002 the RSC organizes in cooperation with the Netherlands
American Studies Association (NASA) and the Association for
Canadian Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN) a conference on
"First Nations in North America: Politics and Representation."
- On
30 January-1 February 2003 the RSC organizes in cooperation
with the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam a conference on "New
York and the Amsterdam Connection."
Entries on this list are for general informational purposes
and subject to change, addition or deletion. Please confirm
plans with the RSC directly.
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The
Roosevelt Study Center is a research institute
and conference center on twentieth century American history
and European-American relations. It is named after three famous
Americans:
- President
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919),
-
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), and
- Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962),
whose
ancestors emigrated from the Province of Zeeland to the New
World in the mid-seventeenth century.
The
Roosevelt Study Center is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In developing its activities and
building its collections the RSC is supported by the Provincial
Government of Zeeland, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute, the Theodore Roosevelt Association,
the Roosevelt Stichting, as well as by an advisory
board of prominent American and European scholars, top government
officials and representatives from the private sector.
The
RSC offers European students and advanced scholars of American
history:
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a research library with collections of historical documents
and books on U.S. modern history not available anywhere else
in Europe;
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a grants-in-a id program for European researchers;
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an annual prize for the best Dutch M.A. theses on American
history topics;
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a program of exhibitions, international conferences and seminars
on American history, U.S.
- European
relations, and the contemporary meaning of FDR's Four Freedoms;
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conference rooms with audio-visual facilities;
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a publication series;
- an
annual newsletter.
The
RSC library may be used year round for research, but by appointment
only. Please call or write the secretariat.
Office
and library hours:
9.30
to 12.30 and
13.30 to 17.00.
The
RSC exhibition hall is open April through October, Monday to
Friday,
from
11.00 to 12.30 and 13.30 to 16.30.
For information on the RSC holdings and its activities, please
visit our homepage on the internet: http://www.roosevelt.nl
or contact the
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