The Jacob Leisler Institute is excited to announce the guest lecturers for 2025, please find the details below.
Peter Van Dyke Lecture Series
Jacob Leisler Institute, in partnership with the Hudson Area Library
2025 Schedule:
January 23, 2025 – Dr. BJ Lillis, Hench Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, “A Layered Landscape: Indigenous Land and Colonial Property in the Hudson Valley,” in person.
April 10, 2025 – Dr. Jennifer L. Anderson, Stony Brook University, “Transforming Hempstead Plains: The End of the ‘Commons’ on western Long Island,” Zoom.
May 27, 2025 – Dr. Jaap Jacobs, University of St. Andrews, “Manuscripts and Mysteries: Making New New Netherland in the Nineteenth Century,” in person.
October 2025 – Lavada Nahon, Independent Scholar, “New York Slave Revolt of 1712,” in person.