Professor James D. Bratt is the new Fulbright-Dow scholar at the Roosevelt Study Center for the period February through May 2010. During his time here he will be working on a biography of Abraham Kuyper.
Roosevelt Study Center
The Roosevelt Study Center is a research institute, conference center, and library on modern American history located in a twelfth-century abbey in Middelburg, the Netherlands. It is named after three famous Americans, whose ancestors emigrated from Zeeland, the Netherlands, to the New World in the seventeenth century: President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).
02-02-2010
James D. Bratt new Fulbright-Dow Scholar
20-01-2010
Human Rights and Freedom of Press at center of Four Freedoms Awards 2010
On May 29, 2010 the International Four Freedoms Award 2010 will be granted to the European Court of Human Rights, in a ceremony held in the Nieuwe Kerk in Middelburg. Jean Paul Costa, the President of the Court will accept the medal on behalf of the Court.
20-01-2010
Conference: The Obama Effect: Transatlantic Perspectives Past and Future
This conference seeks to explore both the past and the future of the transatlantic relationship by using the election of President Obama as a potential turning point in North American-European relations.
The following plenary speakers have been confirmed: Prof. Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham, UK) and Prof. Marcel Wissenburg (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands). A top-level NATO speaker has also been invited to headline the conference.