This will be of interest to students of the Dutch colonial era. Nancy Johnsen Curran http://pages.prodigy.net/nancycurran Genealogy research and photography in the capital region of New York State New Netherland Institute Box 2536 *Empire State Plaza Station * Albany, NY 12220-0536   NEW NETHERLANDNEWS         CONTACT:     Nancy Curran   tel.   393-5905   nancycurran@prodigy.net Trustee, New Netherland Institute   RENSSELAERSWIJCK SEMINAR SEPTEMBER 13 ABOUT THE FRENCH AND THE DUTCH IN THE NEW WORLD   31ST Annual Rensselaerswijck Seminar of New Netherland Institute Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, New York State Museum, Empire State Plaza, Albany Registration 9:30 a.m.    Reception and dinner 5 p.m. Pre-registration: $50, $30 for students.  Registration at the door $60. Theme: “Neighbors in the New World: New Netherland and New France” Register on line at http://www.nnp.org For more information, call (518) 486-4815   Speakers and topics: José António Brandão of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich.: “An Unreasonable Offer: Iroquois Policy towards their Huron and Mahican Neighbors” James Bradley of ArchLink, Boston: “In Between Worlds: New Netherland and New France at Mid Century” Conrad Heidenreich on York University, Ontario, Canada: “The Skirmish with the Mohawk on Lake Champlain” Willen Frijhoff of the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands: “Jesuits, Calvinists and Natives: Attitudes, Agency, and Encounters in the Early Christian Missions to the North”