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Feb. 8th 2007

Feb. 8th 2007

Sept. 21st 2006

CAANS: Vancouver Chapter

 

Canadian Association for the Advancement

of Netherlandic Studies

Feb. 8th 2007

Sept. 21st 2006

June 18th 2006

CAANS is a non-profit society created to promote an interest in Netherlandic culture

and to foster the study of Netherlandic language, literature and civilization.

 

CAANS meetings are usually held every second Thursday of the month, beginning at 7:30 pm,

at 1099 Sitka Square off Lamey's Mill Road in the False Creek South area of Vancouver.

 

For more information you can go to the CAANS website at

www.caans-acaen.ca or call 604-255-0230

Click on the thumbnail photographs to obtain larger images.

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Previous Topics of Discussion

May 10th, 2007: "Bruges & Hans Memling's International Clientele". Dr. Mitzi Kirkland-Ives: lecturer in de Renaissance en Barok aan de faculteit Kunstgeschiedenis op UBC.

 

April 12th, 2007: Mondriaan's "Portret van een klein meisje". Jos van Stekelenburg.

 

March 8th, 2007: Last Things: Art and Ritual Practice in the Age of Reform.

Presented in English by: Dr Christine Goettler, Associate Professor at the School of Art at the University of Washington.

 

February 8th, 2007: Annual General Meeting. & video "Across the Atlantic" by Paul van den Boom regarding the trans-Atlantic immigration from Netherland to Canada during 1940 to 1970.

 

December 14th, 2006: The origins and character of Blue-and-white Delft tiles: How these tiles became a symbol of Dutch identity. Presented by Dr. Pieter Moogk.

 

November 9th, 2006: "Goed geboerd? Een reflectie van het boerenleven in de Nederlandse taal."

Gegeven bij: Ingeborg van Driel uit Calgary

 

October 12th, 2006: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621): composer. Presented by Gerald van Wyck. Instructor in Music History & Conducting at Vancouver Community College.

 

September 21st, 2006: Rembrandt van Rijn. Presented by Dr. Caroline Han from Leiden.

 

May 18th, 2006: "Positie van Nederland en Belgie Binnen de E.U." Presented by Han Tak.

Han Tak was werkzaam voor de Europese Commissie in Brussel van 1978 tot 2002.

 

April 13th, 2006: From the Netherlands to Canada: Immigrant Discourses on the Transnational Experience, race, and space.

Presented by: Lisa Vermeulen, Research towards a Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, UBC

 

March 9th, 2006: De Nederlandse spelling: opblaasbare speelbal van spelkundige spelleiders en spelensmoede spel(l)ers.

[Current Dutch Spelling Revisions] Presented by: Dr. Ingeborg van Driel

 

February 9th, 2006: Annual General Meeting

 

January 12th, 2006: "The Afterlife of the 1965-66 Mass Killings in Indonesia: Commemoration and Narration".

Presented by Dr. John Roosa, Assistant Professor in History, UBC, and Ms. Ayu Ratih.

 

December 8th, 2005: Who wrote the oldest Netherlandic sentence in the Middle Ages?

Presented by Dr. Erik Kwakkel from the University of Victoria.

 

November 17th, 2005: Going Dutch: Holland and America, 1609 to 2009.

Presented by Dr. Benjamin Schmidt, Associate Professor in History, from the University of Washington.