Jaap Kooijman

2009

• “The Significance of Triviality: Discussing the Relevance and Pitfalls of Studying Popular Culture,” presented on 27 November 2009 at the Participating in a Mediated World conference, the Platform for Communication, Media, and Information, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Amsterdamned Global Village: Cinematic Interpretations of a Multicultural City,” presented on 20 November 2009 at the Amsterdam Imagined conference, Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Keynote lecture “The Cultural Life of 9/11,” presented on 18 August 2009 at the Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises session of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies, Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
• “Breaking News, Instant Replay: The Televisuality of 9/11,” presented on 29 June 2009 at The Ends of Television conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Book talk “Fabricating the Absolute Fake,” presented on 6 April 2009, Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, United States of America
• Book talk “Fabricating the Absolute Fake,” presented on 10 March 2009, the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America
• Keynote lecture “Fabricating the Absolute Fake,” presented on 16 January 2009 at the Appropriating America, Making Europe conference, European Science Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2008

• “The Americans We Never Were: Anti-Americanism and Pop Culture in the Post-9/11 Era,” presented on 11 May 2008 at the “E Pluribus Unum” or “E Pluribus Plura”? conference, European Association for American Studies, Oslo, Norway
• “The Unbearable Lightness of Pop Culture: Analyzing the Pop-Cultural Object,” presented on 26 March 2008 at the Engaging Objects international workshop, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Recycling American Innocence in Post-9/11 Dutch Photography,” presented on 22 March 2008 at the annual PCA/ACA conference, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, San Francisco, United States of America

2007

• “We are all Americans, Not! European Visions on the American Dream in a Post-9/11 World,” presented on 1 December 2007 at the annual conference of the Bulgarian American Studies Association, Sofia, Bulgaria
• “Dutch Cinema as Karaoke Americanism,” presented on 23 June 2007 at the first annual conference of the European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (NECS), Vienna, Austria
• “The Queerness of Zapping,” presented on 7 June 2007 at the annual Screen conference, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

2006

• “Resisting Coca-Colonization: The Appropriation of Global Capitalism as Oppositional Politics,” presented on 30 October 2006 at the Soirées Barbares workshop, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “‘They look at me as if I flew into the Twin Towers’: 9/11 and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Dutch Pop Culture,” presented on 8 June 2006 at the annual conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “The Oprahification of 9/11: The War on Terror as Discussed on The Oprah Winfrey Show,” presented on 8 April 2006 at the Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the United States conference, European Association for American Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus

2005

• “Playing It Straight or Gay: Reality TV and the Performance of Male Sexuality,” presented on 15 October 2005 at the Landscapes of Cultural Studies conference, Alpen-Andria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• “The Americanization of European Cinema: Perceiving Antonia’s Line as an American Film,” presented on 25 June 2005 at the Cinema Europe: Networks in Progress conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Retelling 9/11: The West Wing and Ally McBeal,” presented on 8 May 2005 at the MIT4: the work of stories conference, Media in Transition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

2004

• “Hollywood, the Netherlands: Dutch Feel Good Cinema and Its Search for a Younger Audience,” presented on 5 June 2004 at The Future of the Past: The Low Countries in the New Europe conference, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America
• “Heaven is a Disco: 1970s Disco from a Post-AIDS Perspective,” presented on 29 May 2004 at the Queer Matters conference, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
• “The Ultimate Idol: De Amerikaanse president als popster,” presented on 22 May 2004 at symposium De Nederlandse media en de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen, held at the Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands
• “Do You Want to Hold On to the Dream? The Limitations of American Iconography as as Sign of Liberation in Contemporary Dutch Cultural Production,” presented on 3 April 2004 at the America in the Course of Human Events conference, European Association for American Studies, Prague, Czech Republic

2003

• “An Accented Space: ‘America’ as Imagined Homeland in Dutch Popular Cinema,” presented on 18 June 2003 at the Accented Cultures conference, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “I’ll Show You Mine, You’ll Show Me Yours: Queer Appropriations of Mahogany,” presented on 17 June 2003 at the Cinephilia II conference, New York University / University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Bombs Bursting In Air: The Gulf War, 9/11, and the Super Bowl Performances of the Star-Spangled Banner by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey,” presented on 6 June 2003 at the annual conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “We Don’t Have Violence and Fat People Here! Teaching American Studies in Amsterdam South-East,” presented on 24 May 2003 at the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Leiden, the Netherlands

2002

• “Reading RuPaul: Standing 6.5 Foot Tall at the Crossroads of Gender, Race, and Sexuality,” presented on 1 July 2002 at the fourth international Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, Tampere, Finland
• “The Third Way in Cultural Policy: The Case of the Dutch National Cinema,” presented on 22 March 2002 at the The United States Of / In Europe: Nationhood, Citizenship, Culture conference, European Association for American Studies, Bordeaux, France
• “C/Rossover Image: Exploring the Boundaries of Color, Masculinity/Femininity, and Sexuality in the Images of Michael Jackson and RuPaul,” presented on 15 March 2002 at the Traveling Concepts III: Memory, Image, and Narrativity conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2001

• “Outside in America: George Michael’s Music Video, Public Sex, and Consumerism,” presented on 20 October 2001 at the America Imagined conference, Bulgarian American Studies Association, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
• “Patricia Paay Goes Back Home to Denver: ‘America’ as a Sign of Authenticity in Dutch Pop Music,” presented on 17 October 2001 at the Here, There, or Everywhere conference, Amsterdam School for Communication Research, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Practice of Delegation / Practice of Depiction: Diana Ross performing ‘God Bless America’ at the Lincoln Memorial,” presented on 14 October 2001 at the anniversary conference of Film- and Television Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “Just put some fake eyelashes on and fix that hair: Interpreting Image & Narrative in Music Video,” presented on 8 June 2001 at the ASCA mini-conferences on Memory, Image, Narrative, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “On the Road to Somewhere: The Delivery - Redefining the American Road Movie by Using a European Example,” presented on 20 April 2001 at the Fifth Conference of European Historians of the United States, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2000

• ” ‘How can you smile when the people in the street are being beaten?’ Hubert H. Humphrey and the Television Coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention,” presented on 11 November 2000 at the Images of American Presidents in Film and Television conference, Film & History League, Westlake Village, California, United States of America
• “Image is Everything: televisie en de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen,” presented on 11 October 2000 at the Koninklijk Instituut Marine, Den Helder, the Netherlands
• “The Subtitles are Great: Dutch Oscar-Winning Films as European Presence in Hollywood,” presented on 6 October 2000 at the California Dreaming conference, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “Blood, Sweat, Tears, Spit & Sperm: The Body of Lyndon B. Johnson,” presented on 8 January 2000 at the American Politics Group Conference, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

1999

• “The Sound of Young America: Motown as a Topic in American Studies,” presented on 23 November 1999 at the SIB (Studenten Internationale Betrekkingen) meeting, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• “The Dutch Welfare State: comparing Dutch and American social policy,” presented on 14 July 1999 at the American Embassy, The Hague, the Netherlands
• “Can’t Forget the Motor City: The Move of Motown from Detroit to Los Angeles,” presented on 3 June 1999 at the annual conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association, Roosevelt Study
  Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “Erasing ‘Class’ from American Health Care Politics: The Shift of Focus from the Working Class to the Elderly in the National Health Insurance Debate,” presented on 7 January 1999 at the American Politics Group Conference, Selwyn College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

1998

• “American Exceptionalism and Its Limitations,” presented on 11 December 1998 at the International Seminar “Uses of the Past: Citizenship and Identity in the United States and Europe,” University of Bari, Italy
• “A Victory for America: Medicare and the Desegregation of Southern Hospitals,” presented on 23 August 1998 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, United States of America

1997

• “What If You Didn’t Have To Worry About Health Care? National health insurance as an example of how a public interest issue becomes a personalized one,” presented on 30 October 1997 at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, DC, United States of America
• “Just Forget About It: FDR & National Health Insurance,” presented on 26 June 1997 at the sixth international colloquium David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University, held at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “A Supreme Endorsement to Capture the Black Vote: The Endorsements by Diana Ross & the Supremes and James Brown of Hubert H. Humphrey’s Presidential Campaign of 1968,” presented on 10 May 1997 at the disChord conference on contemporary popular music, University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America

1994-1996

• “Soulstemmen voor Hubert Humphrey,” presented on 1 March 1996 at the fourth national Amerikanistendag of the Netherlands American Studies Association, held at the University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands
• “Licked By A Group Of Doctors: The Exclusion of a National Health Insurance Program from the Social Security Act of 1935,” presented on 7 June 1995 at the annual conference of the Netherlands American Studies Association, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands
• “De noodzaak van aanhalingstekens: een pleidooi voor de zogenaamde ‘political correctness’ binnen de Amerikanistiek,” presented on 25 February 1994 at the second national Amerikanistendag of the Netherlands American Studies Association, held at the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands