05-02-2013 om 12:27:12

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Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
 
Date: 28 March 2013
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: Aula, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Singel 411 Amsterdam
 
A poor boy from an unnamed village somewhere in the Third World wants to succeed in life. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a kind of self-help book for this character in Mohsin Hamid’s new novel, a character who might be said to represent hundreds of millions of people today. Hamid himself is a literary sensation with an east-meets-west background: born in Lahore, Pakistan, childhood in California, educated at Princeton and Harvard. His previous novels, Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, have been translated into 30 languages and won numerous awards. Join us for an evening with the man whom the Village Voice dubbed “an artist of fantastic cunning.” 

Moderator: Naema Tahir
In cooperation with Penguin Books and De Bezige Bij publishers
Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
Admission:  JAI members €13,- Non members €19,- Students/Seniors €15,-
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07-01-2013 om 16:35:39

Anne Applebaum
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
 
Date: 31 January 2013
Time: 8pm
Location: Aula, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Singel 411 Amsterdam
Moderator: Chris Kijne
 
Anne Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2003 book Gulag and is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate. She is also the Director of Political Studies at the Legatum Institute in London and a former member of the Washington Post editorial board. She lives in Poland and is married to Rados Sikorski, Poland’s minister of foreign affairs. Her new book is Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956. The National Book Foundation, in naming it a finalist for the National Book Award, said, “As long as Stalin’s legacy lingers in Eastern Europe, as well as in North Korea, Russia, and other places, Iron Curtain will be a necessary work of history as well as an important one.” Join us for an evening with one of America’s most distinguished foreign affairs journalists.

Dan Hassler-Forest
Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age

Date: 14 February 2013
Moderator: to be announced

Dan Hassler-Forest was born in New York, but was moved to the Netherlands at an early age. He grew up in a bilingual family, addicted to film and literature. After obtaining Master's degrees in English Literature (cum laude) and Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam, he spent a few years working odd jobs as a copywriter, translator, and film reviewer. He has also worked for the Rotterdam Film Festival and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, and frequently gives lectures, public talks, and interviews on film, contemporary literature, comics, and popular culture. Dan Hassler-Forest works as assistant professor in English Literature and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. By combining in-depth analyses of numerous major superhero films from this era with astute readings of contemporary critical theory, his new book, Capitalist Superheroes, offers accessible and academically potent insight into the complex interplay between politics, ideology, and entertainment in the 21st century.

Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Date: 28 March 2013
Moderator: t.b.a.

Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and the forthcoming How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and the Paris Review, and his essays in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. Born in 1971, he has lived about half his life, on and off, in Lahore. He also spent part of his early childhood in California, attended Princeton and Harvard, and worked for a decade as a management consultant in New York and London, mostly part-time.

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30-07-2012 om 18:29:07

Nathan Englander
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
 
Date: 4 September 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: Headquarters Booking.com, Herengracht 597, Amsterdam
 
Nathan Englander’s new short story collection self-consciously references the two poles of his work: Jewish life and American prose. The title refers to the late Raymond Carver, whose What We Talk About When We Talk About Love redefined the short story. By replacing love with Anne Frank (i.e., Jewishness), Englander signals what the New York Times called his “trademark blend of the breezy and the biblical.” Englander’s past works -- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and The Ministry of Special Cases -- established him as a master. Join us for an evening with the author whom Jonathan Franzen lauded for combining “fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy.” 

Moderator: Micha Wertheim
In cooperation with Ambo| Anthos and Booking.com
Book sale and discount by Athenaeum

Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
Admission:  JAI members €11 - Non members €18,50 - Students/Seniors €10
 
 David Hwang
A Multicultural Dialogue Through Theater
 
Date: 6 September 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: MC Theater, Polonceaukade 5 Amsterdam
 
David Henry Hwang is one of America’s top playwrights and one of its most incisive chroniclers of the immigrant experience in America: or better said, the post-immigrant experience. Hwang was born in Los Angeles to Chinese parents, and grew up as a “real” American. He later said that as a boy he considered his Chinese roots "a minor detail, like having red hair." It was only after graduating from Stanford University that he felt the need to explore the challenges faced by his parents’ generation and his own. The result has been a body of work that includes the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, FOB, which won an Obie, and Yellow Face. Hwang will talk about his life and work, and the challenges of handling diversity issues in art.

Moderator: Maarten van Hinte
In cooperation with The U.S. Embassy and Het Nederlands Theater Festival

Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
Admission:  Regular €10,00 - Students €7,50 -
 
 Peter Bergen
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Osama bin Laden - From 9/11 to Abbottabad
 
Date: 11 September 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: West-Indisch Huis, Herenmarkt 99, Amsterdam
 
Peter Bergen is one of America’s foremost national security experts. His previous three books were all about Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, whom Bergen interviewed for CNN. Now Bergen has focused all of that experience into a riveting account of the long hunt for Bin Laden. While the book often reads like a thriller, it also tells the broader story of the strategy debates in both the White House and Al Qaeda. On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the John Adams Institute is pleased to present an evening with one of the people best able to assess where the “war on terror” has gone and what the future might bring.

Moderator: Chris Kijne
In cooperation with The House of Books publishers
Book sale and discount by Athenaeum

Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
Admission:  JAI members €11 - Non members €18,50 - Students/Seniors €10
 
 Frans Verhagen
Lincoln. Een Geniaal Politicus
 
Date: 25 September 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: CREA Theater, Nieuwe Achtergracht 170, Amsterdam
 
American historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the country’s greatest president. Yet during his time in office he was arguably its most divisive. His very election ignited the Civil War, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history. In the first Dutch biography of Lincoln in more than half a century, Frans Verhagen, editor of Amerika.nl, gives a balanced, nuanced overview of the man every American schoolchild knows as “Honest Abe,” and the President whom Barack Obama considers his model. Max Westerman calls this book “a true page-turner about America’s most inspiring president.”

Moderator: George Blaustein
In cooperation with CREA
Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
Admission:  €5,00 – Free entry for students
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27-05-2012 om 13:39:00

De lezing van Edmund White op 7 juni is om gezondheidsredenen afgelast.

Extra event:

Stanley Kubrick remembered

Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest American filmmakers ever. His range was incredibly broad: from Lolita to 2001: A Space Odyssey, from the horror of The Shining to the dystopia of A Clockwork Orange to the antiwar intensity of Full Metal Jacket. The John Adams Institute and EYE present a special event dedicated to the master. Kubrick’s widow, Christiane Kubrick, and his executive producer, Jan Harlan, will discuss the life, the drives and the passions of the man of whom Martin Scorsese said, “He expanded our idea of what is possible in movies.” Following the discussion will be a screening of Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut.

Please take note that this event starts at 5pm.

Parallel to a retrospective film program, EYE is staging an exhibition that shows all aspects involved in the creation of Kubrick's films: from screenplays to storyboards, from set models to actual props, and from costumes to clips of the eventual films and documentaries.

Moderator: Dan Hassler-Forest
When: 22 June 2012, 17.00
Where: EYE Film Institute - IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam
Admission: Online €12,00 Counter €12,50 Reduction €10,50

Tickets via www.eyefilm.nl Melden

14-05-2012 om 14:38:18

Teju Cole
Open City
 
Date: 29 May 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: Booking.com, Herengracht 597, Amsterdam
Moderator: To be announced
 
Teju Cole is rapidly becoming a new literary sensation in America. His novel Open City--which won the 2012 Pen/Hemingway Award and the New York City Book Award--is unlike anything you’ve ever read. The narrator, Julius, is a Nigerian psychiatry student who lives in Manhattan and likes to walk in the city. As he does, he has encounters. Most are small. He watches children playing in a park. He discovers that the woman next door died recently, and is quietly devastated, though he hardly knew her. The novel’s blended texture reminds you of something: real life. You get a sense of this man and this city, but also of how we construct ourselves. The Seattle Times called it “Magnificent and shattering. A remarkably resonant feat of prose.” Join us for a special literary event. 
 
In cooperation with De Bezige Bij and Booking.com

Martha Nussbaum
Date: 31 May 2012 - sold out

Edmund White
Jack Holmes & His Friend

Date: 07 June 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: Spui25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam
Moderator: T.b.a.

Edmund White, one of the great figures of American fiction and a major voice in gay literature, has written, in Jack Holmes and His Friend, a classic novel: broad in scope and rich in detail. In its comfortable, wandering pace, it reminds you that fiction is a place where you can lose yourself. It has a story: of a lifetime of love and friendship between two men, one gay and one straight. But it is also an acute rendering of 1960s New York, and a chronicle of how society has changed in its feelings about both homosexuality and heterosexuality in the years since.  Join us for an evening with a modern master.

Admission:  JAI members €11 - Non members €18,50 - Students/Seniors €10
Ticket sale:  http://www.john-adams.nl/tickets/index.html
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20-02-2012 om 16:13:31

Deborah Scroggins
Wanted Women
Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui

Date: 8 March 2012
Zie voor info mijn vorig blog

Stephen Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel
Obama on the Eve of Election: At Home and Abroad

Who will win this year's presidential election? In this very special John Adams Institute event, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation and one of America's most distinguished voices from the left, and Stephen Cohen, a Russian expert at New York University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss President Obama's domestic and foreign policy, and his chances of winning reelection. Join us for an evening of incisive political analysis.

Please note that the event starts at 7:30PM

When: 28 March 2012, 19:30
Where: Compagnietheater - Kloveniersburgwal 50, Amsterdam
Moderator: Russell Shorto

Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs created Apple. He gave the world the iPad, the Mac, and the iPhone. He was also an eccentric who was capable of bursting into tears when he didn’t get what he wanted, or of refusing to wear a hospital mask because its design offended him. In his phenomenal biography of Jobs, Walter Isaacson gives us a portrait of a genius who defined our time. Join us for an evening with a man who is himself something of a legend: former editor of Time, former head of CNN, current director of the Aspen Institute, and bestselling author.

Date: 2 April 2012, 8.00 pm
Location: De Rode Hoed, Keizersgracht 102 Amsterdam
Moderator: Tracy Metz

Gini Reticker
Peace Unveiled

Peace Unveiled is the third installment of the 5-part PBS series Women, War and Peace. This documentary follows three Afghan women who have organized to protect women’s rights from being traded away in the reconciliation and reintegration process. Convinced that the Taliban will have demands that jeopardize hard-earned gains, they maneuver against formidable odds to have their voices heard in a peace jirga and high peace council. Gini Reticker is an executive producer of Women, War & Peace and directed both Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Peace Unveiled. Reticker is one of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers putting a lens on the real-life dramatic stories of women’s rights and international social justice issues.

When:11 April 2012, 8.00 pm
Where: LUX Theater Nijmegen - Mariënburg 38-39 Nijmegen
Moderator: To be announced

Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers

With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters–losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

When: 24 April 2012,8.00 pm
Where: People's Place - Stadhouderskade 5, Amsterdam
Moderator: T.b.a.

Martha Nussbaum
Creating Capabilities

Date: 31 May 2012
Zie voor info mijn vorig blog

Gayle Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

Date: 11 June 2012
Info in vorig blog
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25-01-2012 om 18:45:22

Cullen Murphy
God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
 
Date: 6 February 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: West-Indisch Huis, Herenmarkt 99 Amsterdam
Moderator: Charles C. Mann

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.  So went the old Monty Python skit. But does anyone expect that the Roman Catholic Church’s office of the Inquisition is still with us today?  In his insightful new book, Cullen Murphy, editor at large at Vanity Fair, deconstructs the infamous Inquisition, lays out its past, and offers a brisk and sobering overview of the role it still plays. In pioneering techniques of official spying, censorship and “scientific” investigation, the Inquisition lives on. And it remains a feature of the Church. Its legacy is rightfully of concern to human rights advocates the world over. Join us for a lively and provocative discussion.

Deborah Scroggins
Wanted Women
Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
 
Date: 8 March 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: West-Indisch Huis, Herenmarkt 99 Amsterdam
Moderator: Petra Stienen
 
The Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is lauded in America as a champion of the cause of women within Islam. But the Dutch know her differently. As a member of the Dutch parliament and collaborator of polarizing filmmaker Theo van Gogh, she stirred sharp feelings here. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist and Muslim terrorist now in U.S. prison, is less well-known in either country. But in this provocative new book, Deborah Scroggins gives parallel biographies of these two women who brought their Muslim backgrounds into the West in very different ways. The result, as The Economist said, is a "gripping and finely textured double biography." Join us for an evening of faith, lies, terror, and cultural flashpoints.

Patrick deWitt
Date: 24 April 2012

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Martha Nussbaum
Creating Capabilities

Martha Nussbaum is among America's most prominent philosophers and one of its most polemic. Author of more than a dozen books and occupationally possessed of more titles than most European royals, Nussbaum teaches at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Creating Capabilities.

Date: 31 May 2012
Time: 8.00 pm
Location: The International School of Amsterdam, Sportlaan 45, Amstelveen
Modator: To be announced

Gayle Lemmon
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells the story of a real-life heroine, a young entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years.  The story behind the book grew out of a trip to Afghanistan in December 2005 where Lemmon met Kamila Sidiqi, an unlikely breadwinner who had become an entrepreneur under the Taliban. Desperate to support her five brothers and sisters at home and banished from Kabul’s streets by the Taliban, she started a dressmaking business in her living room which offered work to 100 women in her neighborhood. Together these unsung heroines made the difference between survival and starvation for their families despite—and sometimes because of—the Taliban. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana tells their story for the first time.

Date: 11 June 2012
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Admission:  JAI members €11 - Non members €18,50 - Students/Seniors €10
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