“The History of Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800,” Atlantic History: Regional Networks, Shared Experiences, Forces of Integration, Harvard University, June 21-23, 2007

“The History of Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800,” Atlantic History: Regional Networks, Shared Experiences, Forces of Integration, Harvard University, June 21-23, 2007.

“Stealing Ham’s Descendants: The Dutch Trade in African Slaves, 1600-1800,” Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 16, 2007.

“Transatlantic Iconoclasm: Dutch Violence in Ibero-America,” The Dutch Golden Age and the World – a Workshop,” Columbia University, March 30-31, 2007.
“Iconoclasts Abroad: Dutch Military Violence in Ibero-America,” “Dutch America in the Golden Age: A Forum,” John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I., February 22, 2007.
“Tobacco’s Transnational Moment,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, March 28, 2006.

“Skirmishes, Mutiny, and Iconoclasm: Military Violence in the Dutch Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, March 27, 2006.
“Atlantische Geschichte und der Begriff der Frühen Neuzeit,” Conference “Die Frühe Neuzeit als Epoche,” Erlangen (Germany), September 15-17, 2005.
“Between Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Maas Estuary: Natives and Strangers in the Atlantic Tobacco Business, 1620-1650,” Conference “Atlantic History: Soundings,” Harvard University, August 8-13, 2005.
“Religion and Toleration in the Dutch Atlantic World,” Higgins School of the Humanities, Clark University, March 29, 2005.
“Networks of Colonial Entrepreneurs: The Founding Fathers of the Jewish Settlements in Dutch America, 1650s and 1660s,” First Lavy Symposium, “Atlantic Jewry in an Age of Mercantilism,” Johns Hopkins University, March 25-26, 2005.
“War and Trade in the Atlantic World, 1640-1763,” Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 8-11, 2004.
“Between Foreland and Hinterland: Communities of Port Jews and their Contacts in the Dutch Atlantic world,” Association for Jewish Studies 35^th Annual Conference, Boston, December 21-23, 2003.
“Soldiers, Sailors, and Comforters of the Sick: Low Level Careers in the Dutch Colonies,” International Workshop “The Making of Individual Careers in Colonial Empires,” European University Institute, Florence, December 11-13, 2003.
“Sojourners in the Dutch Atlantic World: Soldiers, Sailors, and Comforters of the Sick.” History Department Lecture Series, Clark University, November 5, 2003.
“How War Caused Smuggling in the Atlantic World,” International Conference “Guerre et économie dans le monde atlantique du XVIe au XXe siècle: Stratégies en échec, logiques d’adaptation,” Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, October 3-4, 2003.
“The Normalization of the Dutch Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century,” International Symposium “Out of Africa: Exploring Histories of Slavery,” National University of Ireland, Galway, February 28, 2003.
“Between Habsburg Neglect and Bourbon Assertiveness: Hispano-Dutch Relations in the New World, 1650-1750,” International Conference “España y los diecisiete Países Bajos, siglos XVI-XVIII: Una revisión historiográfica,” Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, September 30 - October 2, 2002.
“The Place of New Netherland in the West India Company’s Grand Scheme,” Conference “New Netherland at the Millennium: The State of New World Dutch Studies,” New York City, October 18-20, 2001
“New Horizons in Atlantic History,” Semi-Annual Conference of the New England Historical Association, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, April 21, 2001.
“Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Partnership,” International Conference “Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: the Atlantic Connections,” The Huntington, San Marino, California, January 26-27, 2001.
“What Crisis?” Roundtable: “Europe’s Crisis of the Seventeenth Century in the Wider Atlantic World,” Annual Convention of the American Historical Association. Boston, January 4-7, 2001.

“Uprooted Roots: Sephardic Migration and the Growth of European Long-Distance Trade,” International Conference “Uprooted Roots: Amsterdam and the Sephardic Diaspora,” Amsterdam, October 24-27, 2000.
“Manumission in an Entrepôt: The Case of Curaçao,” International Conference “From Slavery to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World,” Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, Charleston, South Carolina, October 4-7, 2000.
“Transnationalism ‘Beyond the Line’: The Caribbean, 1655-1763,” International Congress of Historical Sciences, Special Theme Regions and Regionalization, Oslo, Norway, August 6-13, 2000.
“Dutch Expansion: Comparative Perspectives,” Annual Meeting Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, Missouri, March 30 - April 2, 2000.
“The Dutch Atlantic” and “Mercantilism and the Pervasiveness of Contraband Trade,” State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, N.Y., December 3, 1999.
“De spilfunctie van de Nederlandse Antillen in de Caraïbische economie, 1650-1800,” University of Aruba, Aruba, November 23, 1999.
“Failing to Square the Circle: The West India Company’s Volte-Face in 1638-39,” Rensselaerswijck Seminar “New Netherland through the Decades,” Albany, N.Y., September 18, 1999.
[with Pieter Emmer] “The Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800: Expansion without Empire,” International Conference on the Nature of Atlantic History, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Wassenaar (The Netherlands), May 14-15, 1999.
“The Abortive Empire: The Dutch in the Atlantic World,” National University of Ireland, Galway, May 11, 1999.

“The Atlantic Economy,” Workshop “Teaching Atlantic History,” Harvard University, Cambridge, November 7-8, 1998.

“Corruption, Contraband and ‘Composition’ in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” Conference of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Integration, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, April 3-4, 1998.
“The Loopholes of Atlantic Mercantilism: Smuggling in Early British, French, and Spanish America,” Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, March 5, 1998.
“Dutch Trade, Capital, and Technology in the Atlantic World, 1595-1667,” Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, Seattle, January 10, 1998.
“Winds of Change: Colonization, Commerce, and Consolidation in the 17th-Century Atlantic World,” Rensselaerswijck Seminar “The West India Company and the Atlantic World,” Albany, September 13, 1997.
“The Jews in Suriname and Curaçao,” International Conference “The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West,” Brown University, Providence, June 15-18, 1997.
“The Contraband Trade of Curaçao’s Jews with ‘Countries of Idolatry,’ 1660-1800,” The Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia, February 7, 1997.
“Migration to New Netherland in the Dutch imperial context,” Princeton University, Princeton, February 6, 1997.
“Brazilian Jewish emigration to the Caribbean and the contraband trade, 1654-1800,” Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., February 4, 1997.

“Slavenhandel en smokkelhandel van de Curaçaose Sefardiem,” Conference on Jews in the New World, organized by the Royal Dutch Science Academy and the Committee for the History of Jewish Culture, Amsterdam, November 26, 1996.
“Moving to ‘the finest, healthiest and most fertile land of this world’: Dutch migration to New Netherland, 1624-1664,” Atlantic History Seminar “The Movement of People: Mobility and Migration, Recruitment and Resettlement,” Harvard University, Cambridge, September 3-11, 1996.
“Dutch trade with the Americas before 1800: A revision of some persistent myths and misconceptions.” Conference of the Institute for the History of European Expansion “Dutch Atlantic Shipping,” University of Leiden, June 5, 1996.
“Mercantilism, Patrimonialism, and the Atlantic Trade Networks,” Conference of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Integration, Minneapolis, April 19-21, 1996.
“State Regulation and Spanish and English colonial trade, 1650-1750,” Comparative World History Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, April 17, 1996.
“Dutch colonization of the Americas: the story of a qualified failure,” Delaware State University, April 16, 1996.
“Smuggling and law enforcement in the Atlantic: A comparison between English and Spanish colonial trade, 1650-1750,” Brown University, Providence, March 6, 1996.
“Los holandeses en el Caribe, 1648-1702: de guerreros a negociantes,” Colloque internationale “L’enjeu caraïbe,” Maison des Pays Ibériques, Université de Bordeaux III, June 30-July 2, 1995.
“Breaking into the monopoly system: Dutch trade with the Spanish Caribbean, 1680-1756,” Summer course of the European Science Foundation Network ‘Shifting cultures: The expansion of Europe and its cultural impact,’ Sant Feliú de Guixols (Spain) July 18-24, 1994.
“De handel van Curaçao in de achttiende eeuw,” Ninth conference of the Institute for the History of European Expansion: “The Dutch Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,” University of Leiden, May 26, 1994.
“Production and Trade of an American Crop: Cacao between 1770 and 1830,” Conference “Cocoa production and economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries,” School of Oriental and African Studies, London, September 15-17, 1993.
“The Dutch Republic as an Economic and Political Model in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America,” Congress “By sea and by air: five centuries of interaction between the Low Countries and the Americas, 1492-1992,” University of Leiden, June 1992.
“Sal, perlas y tabaco: La presencia neerlandesa en las aguas venezolanas en la primera mitad del siglo XVII,” International Conference “Dans le sillage de Colomb: l’Europe du Ponant et la Découverte du Nouveau Monde (1450-1650),” Université de Rennes, May 1992.
“Spanish American political culture in the early national period,” International Congress of Americanists. Amsterdam, July 1988.

Public Lectures

“Het Atlantisch gebied en de Nederlanders in de zeventiende eeuw,” Spui25 & Athenaeum Boekhandel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 17, 2017.

“Connecting the Old World and the New: Curaçao as a Trading Center in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Mongui Maduro-bibliotheek, Curaçao, November 23, 2014.
“De oorsprong van de Nederlandse slavernij en slavenhandel in het Atlantisch gebied,” Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, July 2, 2013.
“The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800: Trade, War, and Settlement,” Hampshire Educational Collaborative, Teaching American History meeting, University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 7, 2009.
“Comparative Colonialism,” Teaching American History grant meeting, Bristol Community College, Fall River, Mass., October 12, 2005.
“1654: A Pivotal Year in American Jewish History,” Lecture for American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House and Yeshiva University Museum, New York City, December 7, 2004.
“Jews in the Caribbean: A General Introduction” and “Jews and Commerce in Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean,” The 350^th Anniversary Jewish Heritage Cruise, Caribbean, May 12 and 14, 2004.
“The New World Imagined: European Fantasies of America Before the Revolution.” Fort Kent Western Anniversary Lecture Series, Augusta, Maine, May 7, 2004.
“The Converso Experience and the Construction of Transatlantic Colonies,” Etz Chaim synagogue, Portland, Maine, March 26, 2004.
“The Diaspora as a Blessing in Disguise? Sephardic Trade Networks in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Convocation Lecture, University of Southern Maine, January 22, 2002. Same lecture at Temple Beth-El, Portland, February 12, 2002, and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Portland, March 15, 2002.
Senior College lecture, “The Vicissitudes of the Sephardic Jews, 1391-1800,” Portland, March 24, 2000.
“Slavenhandel, slavernij en vrijheid op Curaçao, 1650-1800,” Centraal Historisch Archief, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, November 28, 1999.
“Curaçao ten tijde van de West-Indische Compagnie: een Atlantisch entrepôt zonder weerga,”

Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, November 24, 1999.

Senior College lecture, “The Spanish Inquisition,” Portland, Maine, October 22, 1999.
Senior Adult Growth Exchange lecture “The Balkans: Kosovo and Albania,” Portland, September 21, 1999.
Senior College lecture on “History of the Conflict in Kosovo,” Portland, May 2, 1999.
“Historical Backgrounds of the War” at Teach-In/Forum for Peace on the war in Serbia, Portland, April 28, 1999.
“The Dutch in the Americas,” Netherlands Society of New England, Lexington, Mass., June 28, 1998.
“Victorie, victorie, o hoe wel gaet het ons! De Nederlanders in het Atlantisch gebied, 1595-1795,” Washington, D.C., November 21, 1994, New York, November 22, and Cambridge, Mass., November 23, 1994.
“Los beneficios del colonialismo,” Society of Hispanists, Rotterdam, February 19, 1992.

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