The Netherlands America University League of Ann Arbor  is a non-profit organization of people in southeastern Michigan interested in all aspects of Dutch and Flemish culture.

Many but not all members have some kind of association with the University of Michigan. Many speak Dutch, many do not, but all share an interest in the social, cultural, literary, political and scientific life of the Netherlands and Flemish-speaking Belgium.

The league was founded in 1976 and has about 70 members in all age groups.

MEMBERSHIP LINK 

Typical NAUL events include:

• Dutch brown-bag lunch meetings - Dutch and Flemish Studies at UM (Thursdays)
• May: Annual Members Meeting and Rijst tafel (Indonesian-style food)
• June/July: BBQ picnic
• September: Annual Reception
• October/November: DeVries / Van der Kooy lecture — co-sponsored by the De Vries–VanderKooy endowment, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Netherlands America University League (NAUL), the Netherlands Embassy, and an assortment of other bodies who may support a particular lecture, e.g., the Institute for the Humanities or the International Institute or the Department of Social Work, etc.
• December: Sinterklaas party for kids young and old, Saturday, December 7 at Gretchen's House on Dhu Varren

Items of Interest

Ton Broos's article in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies

The life and works of E. M. Beekman, an authority on Dutch colonial literature [added July 2019]