In 2005, Johannes Van Tilburg and his wife, Jo Anne, gave the Dutch Studies Program at UCLA a remarkably generous gift to establish in perpetuity the Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies.
Mr. Van Tilburg came to the USA from The Netherlands in 1965. In 1971, he became the founding principal of Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA and has led this 100 person firm to the forefront of planning and design. His work as a designer is widely recognized throughout the state and indeed the entire country. In 1992, he was honored by his peers and elevated to the level of Fellow of the American Institution of Architects. In 2007, Johannes Van Tilburg was honored by the Netherlands America Foundation of Southern California. Mr. Van Tilburg is deeply committed to education and continues to work as an adjunct Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at USC. In 2010, Mr. Van Tilburg was appointed Honorary Consul of The Netherlands in Los Angeles.
February 13, 2020
Saskia Pieterse, Utrecht University
“Homegrown Foods, Homegrown Sentiments? a Cultural Analysis of the Dutch Fear of Esthetic Contamination, 1770-1914”
Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies
February 14, 2019
Annelien de Dijn, Utrecht University
“Egalitarian Revolutions”
Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies
February 15, 2018
Siep Stuurman, Utrecht University
“The Origins and Significance of Enlightenment Anti-Colonialism”
Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies
February 16, 2017
Joris Van Eijnatten, Utrecht University
“Mining an uncharted continent: Popular conceptions of Europe in twentieth-century Dutch newspapers”
Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies
February 18, 2016
Beatriz de Graaf, Utrecht University
“Terrorism – an Elusive Identifier”
February 26, 2015
Sven Dupré, Freie Univeritat Berlin and Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
“The Making of a Global Knowledge Society in the Low Countries”
February 20, 2014
Maarten Prak, University of Utrecht "The 'polder model' and Its Role in Dutch History"
February 21, 2013
Els Stronks, Utrecht University
“International Bestsellers in the Dutch Golden Age”
February 23, 2012
Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University
“The Tortured Emergence of the First Modern Corporation: The Early Years of the Dutch East India Company”
February 17, 2011
Margaret C. Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA
“Civil Society and the Dutch State: The Role of Freemasonry, 1735-1940”
February 25, 2010
Ester Jansma, Chair in Dendrochronology, Utrecht University
“Reading Trees: Stories of Wood”
February 19, 2009
Ido De Haan, Professor of Political History, Utrecht University
“Dutch Jewry in 1945”
February 21, 2008
Paul Schnabel, Utrecht University
“Immigration and the question of Dutch identity”
February 22, 2007
Gary Schwartz, Art Historian
“Rembrandt’s Last Painting”
February 23, 2006
Wiljan Van Den Akker, Professor of Dutch Literature, Utrecht University
“Rise or Decline of Modern Dutch Literature: An Optimistic Perspective on Cultural Pessimism”