AADAS '05: Dutch Immigrants on the Plains
The Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies (AADAS) will hold its 2005 biennial meeting at Dordt College in beautiful northwest Iowa June 2-4, 2005 (Thursday-Saturday).
The keynote speaker will be Jim Schaap, noted Dutch-American novelist and Dordt College professor. Schaap has recently published Touches the Sky, which received the Award of Merit in the fiction category of the Christianity Today 2004 annual book awards.
| Thursday |
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| Registration |
Opens at 2:30 (Campus Center) |
| 3:30 - 4:25 PM |
Dutch outside the Reformed Fold
Classroom Building (CL 160)
Chair: Jonathan Warner
Bryan Winter, Rev. Pieter Zonne, Founder of Dutch
American Presbyterianism
David Zwart, Staying Connected: The CRC and its Armed
Service Members During World War II |
| 4:30 - 5:15 PM |
The Dutch Reformed and Dordt College (CL 160)
Chair: Paul Fessler
Mike Vanden Bosch and Deborah Haan
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| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
Keynote Address:
Chair: Hubert Krygsman (CL 160)
Jim Schaap, The
Native (Lakota) community and Dutch-American settlers in South Dakota
in the early 1890’s
(reception/coffee/refreshments) |
| Friday |
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| 8:20 - 9:25 AM |
Religion and Immigration I (CL 160)
Chair: Hans Krabbendam
Harvey Noordsy, How the suspension of Domine
Scholte led to the development of the Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa:
a study of an historic letter from AA Van Raalte to Domine JH Donner
in 1859
Edward Schreur, After Lewis and Clark: the Westward Movement
of the Reformed Church in America
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| 9:30 - 10:25 AM |
Moving to the Plains and Alternate Moves(CL 160)
Chair: Janet Sheeres
Hans Krabbendam, Back-Door or Magnet? The Importance
of Immigration to the Plains in the Formation of a Dutch-American
Subculture
Dave Rodenhuis and Huug van den Dool, In
Search for a Better Life on the Prairie
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| 10:30 AM |
Break |
| 11:00 - 11:55 AM |
Dutch among the Mormons and Native Americans (CL 160)
Chair: Herm DeVries
Janet Sheeres, The Plains and Beyond: Dutch
Mormons in Utah in the last half of the 1800’s
Stephen Staggs, Predestined to Failure:
Predikanten Missions to the natives of New Netherland, 1621-1664
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| 12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch (Commons) |
| 1:15 PM |
Jim Schaap and Harold Aardema, Remember "Feik": The
Fiction -- and the life -- of Feike Feikema/Frederic Manfred |
| 2:30 PM |
Dutch Immigrants in the Midwest (CL 160)
Chair: Bob Schoone-Jongen
Alan Vanderberg, History of Commercial Fishing in
West Michigan
Michael Swanson, History of the Dutch in Whiteside
County, Illinois |
| 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Building Culture (CL 160)
Chair: Bob Swierenga
Gerlof Homan, Adriaan J. Barnouw’s Cultural
Work in the US, 1919-1960
Pieter Hovens, Moccasins and Wooden Shoes: Indians
and Dutchmen on the Plains Frontier |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM |
AADAS Business Session |
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM |
Banquet (DeJager Student Center, lower level Campus Center) |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
Book Panel: (CL 160)
Convener: Don Sinnema, Chair: Bob Swierenga
Iowa
Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier
Comment by: Doug
Anderson and Robert Schoone-Jongen (CL 160)
(coffee/refreshments) |
| Saturday |
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| 8:30 - 10:00 AM |
Religion and Dutch Immigration II (CL 160)
Chair: Dick Harms
Robert Schoone-Jongen, Clapboard Chapels on the
Prairie: The Founding of Dutch and Ostfrisian Congregations in Central
Minnesota (1885-1899)
Donald Sinnema, Rev. S.A. Schilstra: An Early
(American) Promoter of Dutch Immigration to the Canadian Prairies, 1902-1905
Peter Ester, Still Bowling Together: Social
Capital of Dutch Protestant Immigration Groups in North America |
| 10:00 - 10:15 AM |
Break |
| 10:15 - 11:45 AM |
Sioux County and the Dutch (CL 160)
Chair: Hans Krabbendam
Maria Mulder-Brown, Stanley Wiersma’s/Sietze Buning’s
Literary Struggles in Sioux County
Brian Beltman, From Sioux County, Iowa to Douglas
County, South Dakota 1880-1900
Jonathan Warner, Charles Zylstra and Stamped
Scrip: How a Dutch Immigrant Sought a Solution to the Great Depression |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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NW Iowa Tour |
Registration Form
Tours
The Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies and Dordt College is pleased to announce that Dr. James Schaap, noted author and storyteller, will be leading a pre-conference and a post-conference tour for the 2005 AADAS conference. Dr. Schaap's most recent work is the award winning book Touches the Sky.
A Great Plains Excursion Pre-Conference Tour, June 1-2
Follow the path of Lewis and Clark along the big shoulders of the mighty Missouri River; hike Spirit Mound, experience the only section of the Big Muddy that looks like it did two centuries ago and enjoy the magnificent scenery of the South Dakota plains. Stop off at a few Dutch hamlets, and visit fascinating old churches, Yankton Sioux reservations, a village museum, and a few pioneer cemeteries. Listen to stories from descendents of 19th century Dutch settlers on the western edge of tall-grass prairie in Charles Mix and Douglass County, South Dakota. For a mere $90 dollars (all food, transportation and lodging included) this is one offer you can't refuse!
Download the Registration Form.
The Siouxland Literary Crawl Post-Conference Tour, June 4
Note: This tour is now filled
Enjoy this Saturday afternoon tour as it winds its way through charming Northwest Iowa. Visit the haunts of the writers who have given us a sense of place here in the tall-grass prairie country. Celebrate Dutch Siouxland's rich literary heritage while visiting sites relating to Dutch-American authors such as Sietze Buning, Friedrich Manfred and others.
Contact us at: aadas@dordt.edu
Note: Due to email problems, please contact us if you have not received an email response from us to any inquiry during the past two weeks.
Download the Registration Form.
Travel Information
Airport shuttles will be available to pick up conference attendees Tuesday afternoon and evening and Thursday morning and afternoon. Shuttles returning to the airport will be available Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. If you are registering for the shuttle service, please include your flight numbers as well as arrival and departure times. If you will need shuttle service but are unable to arrange your travel plans around this shuttle schedule, please contact us at aadas@dordt.edu.
Map to Dordt College
