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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 $350 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 September 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
Travel and Accomodations
Amsterdam is accessible via car or plane transportation. Since this event does not include hotel accommodations our facilitators have included below a list of suggested hotels for participants to choose from.
1. Hotel Catalonia Vondel Amsterdam, https://www.cataloniahotels.com/en/hotel/catalonia-vondel-amsterdam),
2. Leonardo Hotel Amsterdam City Center, https://www.leonardo-hotels.com/amsterdam/leonardo-hotel-amsterdam-city-center?utm_medium=link_site_gmb&utm_campaign=leonardo-hotel-amsterdam-city-center
3. Amsterdam Marriott Hotel, https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/amsnt-amsterdam-marriott-hotel/overview/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0
4. StayOkay Hostel Amsterdam Vondelpark, https://www.stayokay.com/en/hostel/amsterdam-vondelpark (they offer private room options)
Facilitators
John Dizgun, Kentucky Institute for International Studies
John Dizgun is Executive Director of the Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS), a non-profit faculty-led study abroad consortium of 25+ colleges and universities, and Scholar-in-Residence at Western Kentucky University. He has
directed 15+ study abroad programs and reviewed dozens of others in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He has been invited to present at NAFSA, the WISE Conference, OSAC, and the CLIC Study Abroad Conference, and to serve as a Selection
Panelist for the Gilman International Scholarship. He is near-fluent in French and Spanish, and a member of the NCHC Place as Text Planning Committee since 2016.
Mimi Killinger, University of Maine
Mimi Killinger is a Professor in Honors and the Rezendes Preceptor for the Arts at the University of Maine. The author of numerous essays related to honors education, her interdisciplinary research also focuses on environmental history and
women's history, with a recent international project on late twentieth-century women's art history in New Zealand. In Spring 2024 she led a cohort of honors students on a study abroad exchange program in Bulgaria, in 2018 she directed
an honors travel-study student research project in Cuba, and she has served on the NCHC Place as Text Planning Committee since 2017.
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