ORANGE CITY, Iowa -- Dr. James Kennedy, an Orange City native who is professor of Dutch history since the middle ages at the University of Amsterdam, will present a lecture on European health care at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in Northwestern College's England Proscenium Theatre.

Kennedy's lecture is entitled "Socialist Health Care? The Dutch/European Experience." The public is invited to attend.

A frequent commentator on Dutch life, Kennedy will speak about the different European health plans, why the Dutch have moved to a privatized system, and what that entails. Kennedy has written books on the rise of euthanasia in the Netherlands and on the Netherlands in the 1960s.

He is currently writing books on the future of Dutch Protestantism and on the history of the Netherlands.