Annually in the spring, students, recent graduates and Ph.D. candidates in American Studies in the Netherlands gather for the National American Studies Day. The National American Studies day, an initiative of the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA), has been held annually since 1993. This student conference gives students, recent graduates and Ph.D. candidates the opportunity to give short presentations of their research to American Studies students and teachers from all the American Studies programs in the Netherlands.

On Friday, April 1, 2011, the National American Studies Day was held at Leiden University. The main theme was American Memory/American Forgetting.

Program overview American Studies Day, Leiden University, April 1, 2011:

10.00-10.45 Registration + coffee. Place: Academy Building,  Rapenburg 73, Leiden.
10.45 Keynote lecture:  "Civil War Guerrillas, Then and Now," by prof. dr. Daniel Sutherland(University of Arkansas). Place: Academy Building, Klein Auditorium
11.45-13.00 Parallel workshops. Place: Lipsius Building, Cleveringaplaats 1
13.00-14.15 Lunch. Place: Lipsius Building
14.15-15.45 Parallel workshops. Place: Lipsius Building
16.00-17.00 Forum discussion: American Memory and Forgetting. Place: Lipsius 005
17.00-18.00 Drinks, Common room, P.N. van Eyckhof 3 (bldg 1165) 

For full program, click on link below.