Join NNI and N-YHS on APRIL 18 at noon for the next installment of Live From New Amsterdam. NNI director Deborah Hamer talks to Dr. Christian Koot about the Dutch mapmaking tradition and the meaning of mapping in New Netherland. Register here: ow.ly/gWuE50RbugU

If you registered for "Slavery in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World," a reminder that Friday is at the Schomburg Center and Saturday is at New-York Historical Society. Doors open at 8am on Friday for a 9am start, and doors open on Saturday at 8:15am for a 9am start.

Applications are now open for the Holland Society of New York's Junior Fellowship Award! Open to US based PhD candidates working on a topic related to New Netherland, this fellowship supports dissertation writing. Find more information here: ow.ly/CCYv50RtYUT

We still have tickets available for our gala celebrating the 50th (!) anniversary of Charly Gerhing's work translating Dutch documents. Visit crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/2024-gala/ for details. Whether you can attend or not, you are welcome to contribute a note in appreciation of Charly.

For any followers in Amsterdam, please join us on June 17th for a conference on the history of Dutch trans-Atlantic slavery in a maritime context produced in collaboration with the Scheepvaartsmueum. The full program is here: hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/whats-on/agend….

The Fort Orange Gala is now sold out. If you would like to sign up for the waiting list to join us, please email. Image: Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with a Glass and Oysters, 1640. From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Congrats to our friends The NYG&B Society on the launch of "New Netherland Settlers," a project to create reliable, peer-reviewed sketches of New Netherland's settlers (voluntary and involuntary) before 1664. To learn more , visit ow.ly/X4vz50RJ1NL

We are grateful to the Holland Society of New York for sponsoring our Fort Orange Gala, which celebrates Charly Gehring's 50 years translating Dutch documents and commemorates the 400th anniversary of Fort Orange. Visit the Holland Society at hollandsociety.org.

Congratulations to Nationaal Archief on the publication of the final installment in the series "400 years of Dutch-American Stories." In "When did it all begin?" Jaap Jacobs looks at the many years that New Yorkers have claimed for the founding of their city: ow.ly/GN0Z50RT27W

Still time to apply for the Holland Society of New York's Junior Fellowship Award! Open to US based PhD candidates working on a topic related to New Netherland, this fellowship supports dissertation research and/or writing. To apply: ow.ly/13PI50S4ocz

Thank you to all who attended our celebration of Charles Gehring; if you missed it, the event is featured in the "were you seen" section of the Albany Times Union: ow.ly/xg3X50SioBs! Photos by Albert Gnidica. Image: Charles Gehring and Ahmed Dadou

Our final Live from New Amsterdam for the season is Thursday, June 20th at noon. NNI director Deborah Hamer will speak to artist Beatrice Glow about "When Our Rivers Meet," her ongoing exhibition at New-York Historical Society. To register, visit ow.ly/t6p550SjgkC

Times Union columnist Paul Grondahl has some nice words about the New Netherland Institute Gala, Charly Gehring's translation work, and Russell Shorto's installation "New York Before New York" at the New-York Historical Society: timesunion.com/news/article/g….

Looking for something to read for the dog day of summer? Check out our donation page where a $25 donation gets you one of two wonderful books on New Netherland: crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/donate/. And the best part? You're supporting future research and translation!

Our latest eMarcurius with all the news and upcoming events at NNI went out this morning. If you would like to sign up to get our news, please email. Image: Anthonius Leemans, Stilleven met een exemplaar van De Waere Mercurius, 1655 [Still Life with a copy of the Waere Mercurius

Join us for our 46th annual conference "Dutch Albany in History & Art." We will discuss themes explored in two exciting, new exhibitions at the Albany Institute: albanyinstitute.org/exhibitions/up…. For the conference program and registration, visit crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/dutch-albany-c…

The New Netherland Institute is saddened to learn of the death of historian Stefan Bielinski. For more on Bielinski's career and accomplishments read this tribute to him in the Times Union: timesunion.com/news/article/s…

Join us for a new season of Live from New Amsterdam, a joint project of NNI and the New Amsterdam Project at N-YHS! On September 26, Russell Shorto talks to Ian Stewart about preserving Dutch buildings in New York and beyond. To register, visit nyhistory.org/programs/live-…

Reminder: Get your registrations in for Dutch Albany in History & Art. Hear from art historians, curators, and historians about Albany's distinct material culture and then see two exhibitions that bring these themes to life. For more information, visit crm.newnetherlandinstitute.org/dutch-albany-c…

New Resource Announcement! The John Bowne House in Flushing has digitized the papers of John Bowne, the author of the Flushing Remonstrance at bownehouse.org/john-bowne-pap…. These documents will likely shed light on religious toleration, early Quaker history, and Anglo-Dutch relations