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Details: On Thursday 20 March 2014 from 20:00 the Dutch Embassy is organising, in cooperation with the Institut Pierre Werner, a lecture/debate on 200 years parallel history of The Netherlands and Luxembourg; this event celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands); the event takes place at the Abbaye de Neumunster (in German, with simultaneous translation into French).
Luxembourg and the Netherlands have ancient roots but their histories met each other two hundred years ago. Then they separated again but followed parallel paths. Do these histories teach the Dutch and the Lëtzebuerger lessons for the future? Do they share some sort of manifest destiny or is that outdated political dreaming for which there is no place in this harsh 21th century? Is there nothing special in the relationship between the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of the Luxembourg? Historian Han van der Horst discusses these issues and he promises that his conclusions will lead to a lively exchange of opinions.
Han van der Horst (1949) is a historian and an alumnus of the University of Amsterdam. He spent most of his professional life with Nuffic, the Netherlands Organisation for international Cooperation in Higher Education where he was an editor and a communications expert. Han van der Horst is a proud inhabitant of his native town of Schiedam, where he lives in a house full of bookshelves, blogging (on Joop.nl) and twittering his opinions to the world.
Venue: Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg-Grund
Organiser: Organised by Institut Pierre Werner and the Ambassy of the KIngdom of the Netherlands with support by Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster.
Price: Free entry.
Reservations: Registration necessary by email: info@ipw.lu or tel: 490443-1.
URL: For more information see www.ipw.lu.
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