HIA Nederland Events Calendar

November 19th & 20th, 2009
P!oneers
Conference on active citizenship organized by HIA Inc and Felix Meritis in New York. To celebrate 400 years of transatlantic relations between Amsterdam and New York.
www.pioneers.nu

November 19th, 2009
The same day that Afghan President, Hamid Karzai held his inaugural speech in Kabul, a high-level seminar on the security and reconstruction of Afghanistan took place in Middelburg, The Netherlands. The seminar was the Action Project of Dutch Senior Fellow, Djeyhoun Ostowar (2009), and was supported by the Roosevelt Academy and the National Commission for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development.

November 25th, 2009
Dinner to celebrate 10th Years Anniversary of HIA the Netherlands

HIA Netherlands celebrated its 10th anniversary with a high-level dinner with guest such as Jacques Fredj Director of Memorial de la Shoah, Hans Westra Director of the Anna Frank Huis, Ulrich Bauman Deputy-Director Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, Boris Dittrich LGBT Advocacy Director Human Rights Watch New York, Ruth Oldenziel Chair Humanity in Action Netherland etc. The dinner was opened by the speech of Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Dr Jet Bussemaker.

November 26th, 2009
Youth Think tank “Wat Nou?! Never Again?!” (What Do You Mean?! Never Again?!)

Humanity in Action is Netherlands organized a youth think tank "What Do You Mean?! Never Again?" asking a diverse group of young people, age group between 17 and 25, what the future of commemorating and remembering the Second World War II and the Holocaust is. The end result of this one day seminar was a manifesto on the Future of the past containing a number of recommendations. This manifesto was presented to the wider audience in the evening during a major conference at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. The manifesto will be published in a form of a flyer and the participants of the think tank are going to spread it among their peers.

November 26th, 2009
Expert Meeting for our international Guests

As the years are passing, the perspective and approach towards the Second World War is changing. While academic research is becoming more detailed, the museums are trying to bridge the gap with the past and to reach the audience by becoming less focused on details and more focused on the general message. HiA Netherlands invited various Dutch and international guests coming from both academic and museum backgrounds to share their thought about remembering past and about the future of the past related to Second World War.

November 26th, 2009
Public Conference "Future of the Past" in the Felix Meritis Amsterdam

HIA Netherlands celebrated its 10th anniversary with a public conference. Judith Goldstein, the founder of Humanity in Action opened the evening conference. Thereafter our guests divided in three panels discussed how lessons learnt from the Holocaust could be kept relevant for current and future generations. After the second panel the Youth Think tank presented their Manifesto to the audience.