HYPHEN-NATION
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AmerIcan Perspectives on Diversity
5 February, a conference, key note address and youth event on diversity, organized by the John Adams Institute and Coolpolitics in Amsterdam.
Immigration and diversity: they are the biggest, hottest, most painful issues in the Netherlands. America is the land of diversity. What is the secret to America’s approach? It’s a tiny thing: the hyphen (koppelteken). Everyone in the U.S. has a dual identity: Mexican-American, Italian-American, Jewish-American, African-American...America tells newcomers: “Become American, join us…but don’t lose your origins!” It has taken a few hundred years, and it has flaws, but American diversity seems to work. The purpose of “Hyphen-Nation” is to pose this question: Can the American diversity format work in the Netherlands?
Hyphen–Nation Diversity Conference (sold-out!)
When: 5 February, 13.00 until 21.30
Where: Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam
More Info: www.john-adams.nl
13.00
Documentary "The New York Connection,” featuring diversity in New York City.
14.00
Remarks by U.S. Ambassador Fay Hartog Levin.
14.05
Opening talk by Eboo Patel, member of President Obama’s Faith Advisory Council.
14.30
Response by Frans Timmermans, Dutch Minister for European Affairs.
14.45
Diversity at Work
“Diversity is Good for Business”.Case study of Pepsi Cola by Stephanie Capparell, Wall Street Journal editor and author of The Real Pepsi Challenge.
Panel:
Raymond Arroyo, Director AETNA USA and award-winning journalist, producer, and bestselling author. On diversity in US corporations.
Robert Swaak, CEO of Price Waterhouse Coopers in the Netherlands, on the challenges of bringing American corporate diversity strategies to the Netherlands.
Algernon Austin, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., on how American minorities still lag far behind whites in holding “good jobs.”
Moderator: Harry Starren, director of de Baak.
16.15
Break
16.35
Slide show by Bahram Sadeghi, Iranian-Dutch journalist/filmmaker; "undercover" in the Iranian-American community, experiencing life among illegal aliens.
16.50
Diversity on TV: How Television reflects a society’s self-image.
Panel:
Ron Taylor, Vice President of diversity development at FOX TV; increasing diversity at Fox and working with diversity in programming.
Kathy Johnson, Director of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications; overview of diversity in American TV over the past 30 years.
Hans Laroes, Editor-in-Chief of NOS Journaal; Dutch perspective on diversity in television.
Moderator: Tarik Yousif, Columnist
18.05
Farah Pandith, U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities; on the challenges of American society’s handling of Muslim issues.
18.15 – 18.25 Closing questions
18.30 – 19.30
Drinks and Buffet Dinner
Key-Note Address: Reverend Jesse Jackson
20.00 – 21.30
Keynote address by Reverend Jesse Jackson, followed by questions from the audience, moderated by Prem Radhakishun
Hyphen–Nation Youth event
When: 5 February, 21.30 until 03.00
Where: Boom Chicago
Who: 18-27 year olds (maximum capacity 500)
More Info: www.coolpolitics.nl
21.00
Doors open
22.00
Coolpolitics debate with Reverend Jesse Jackson, author Robert Vuijsje, 3FM dj Eric Corton, politician Hans van Baalen and the audience.
23.00t
Improv comedy by Boom Chicago with focus on diversity, featuring Eboo Patel member of President Obama’s Faith Advisory Council on America’s approach to immigration and diversity.
23.30 – 03.00
After Party, with performance of Flinke Namen, DVDJ's Off the Wall and speeddating with the VIP’s.
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