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10/16/2025 to 10/21/2025
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When:
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October 16, 2025 to October 21, 2025
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Where:
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United States
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Contact:
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NCHC Office
hello@nchchonors.org
(402) 472-9150
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About the Institute
Join us for the International Amsterdam Place as Text Faculty Institute. Home to some 180 nationalities, Amsterdam is renowned for its social tolerance and cultural diversity with more than 85% of the population speaking at least two languages. Yet this
progressive city also remains rife with vestiges of a complex colonial past. In our Institute we will consider how contemporary migration, money, multiculturalism, and museums elucidate Amsterdam's hybrid history and define its global future.
Through explorations into sites such as the Van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House, the Werweld Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum – along with diverse residential neighborhoods, markets, and business locales situated off the beaten path – we will
investigate themes such as tradition and innovation, business and efficiency, geography and transportation, gender and sexuality, majority and minority, and identities and difference. On a day trip outside of Amsterdam, we will compare urban
and less urban/rural observations, integrating insights into our ongoing writing and discussions. The International Amsterdam Faculty Institute will offer numerous pathways for understanding a multicultural city and exploratory pedagogical
strategies for incorporation into your own teaching, co-curricular programming, and more.
Participants will return to their home campus with a specific plan for integrating Place as Text strategies into the curriculum and/or co-curriculum. They will have put themselves into the position of learners, thus reminding themselves of the
challenges their own students face. They will have increased connections among the NCHC network. They will have a better understanding of Place as Text pedagogy while deepening their understanding of the fascinating capital city of Amsterdam.
Cost & Registration Deadline
Member price: $1,325
Nonmember price: $2,650
The program fee includes a non-refundable $50 administrative fee and covers institute reading materials, instructional fees, most travel during the Institute, opening group event, final group dinner, and some incidental charges. Charges do not include roundtrip travel to Amsterdam, lodging, or most meals.
The registration deadline is May 15, 2025
Itinerary
(Locations subject to change.)
- Arrival by 2 pm
- Introductions and initial impressions exploration of De Wallen
- Debriefing seminar followed by opening reception
- Writing time in the evening and dinner in small groups
- Brief meeting to discuss initial writings and to organize travel routes
- Morning and afternoon group explorations to Jodenbuurt, Oud-West, and key museums tied to the workshop theme
- Late afternoon seminar on readings and site-specific observations
- Dinner in small groups followed by writing time
- Brief meeting to discuss writings and to organize travel routes
- Morning and afternoon group excursions to neighborhoods tied to the workshop theme such as Spaarndammerbuurt and Amsterdam Noord
- Late afternoon seminar on readings and site-specific observations
- Dinner in small groups followed by writing time
- Day-long excursion to outlying towns such as Leiden and Gouda
- Late afternoon seminar on readings and site-specific observations
- Dinner in small groups followed by writing time
- All-day workshop focused on institution-specific projects through analysis and discussion, informed by learnings from explorations, writings, and Place as Text pedagogy
- Day culminates in a final group dinner
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