Conference: Constructing America | Defining Europe. Perceptions of the Transatlantic Other, 1900- 2000

Registration       13.15-13.45

Welcome             13:45-14.00 | Joris van Eijnatten & Jaap Verheul

Session 1             14:00- 15:30 | Plenary session: Translantis Project | Chair: Jaap Verheul

• Melvin Wevers | Text Mining the Dutch Infatuation with the United State
• Pim Huijnen | The United States business system as reference model for the Dutch economy, 1890-1990
• Jesper Verhoef | Mediating civilization: Debating the role of the United States in the appropriation of media in the Netherlands, 1890-           1990
• Lisanne Walma | “The Land of Narcotics”: Dutch Depictions of U.S. Abuse of Morphine, Heroin and Cocaine in the First Half of the               Twentieth Century

Coffee/tea                15.30-16.00

Keynote 1            16.00-17.30 | Brooke Blower: Race, Democracy, and Empire: Americans in Europe and Its Colonies during World War II

Drinks and 
meet & greet           17.30-19.00