Past Lectures
April 12, 2013
Rick Bass, "The Landscape of Imagination"
You can watch the lecture on MSU's YouTube channel by clicking here.
*A larger version of the poster for this event may be viewed by clicking here.
April 11, 2012
"An Evening with Sherry Smith"
March 9, 2011
"An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams"
April 23, 2009
"An Evening with Peter Matthiessen"
by Peter Matthiessen, Receipent of the National Book Award
March 4, 2010
An Evening with Sylvia Earle
by Dr. Sylvia Earle
February 28, 2008
“The Devil You Don’t Know: Cancer as an Infectious Disease”
by David Quammen, Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies, Montana State University
October 11, 2007
“Thirteen Dead Gorillas: Zoonotic Disease and the Future of Human Health”
by David Quammen, Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies, Montana State University
March 28, 2007
“Darwin and Religion”
by David Quammen, Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies, Montana State University
September 18, 2006
“Water and Empire in the American West: Past, Present, and Future”
by Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas
April 16, 2006
“The Transcontinental Railroads and the Making of Western Modernity”
by Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University
April 15, 2005
“Saving Nature in Time: The Past and Future of Environmentalism”
by William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin
April 15, 1999
“The Land Ethic: The Utterance of an American Isaiah”
by T.H. Watkins, Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies.
April 16, 1998
“Writing the Wild: Landscape in Fiction and Non-Fiction”
by Ann H. Zwinger, author of 17 books about the West, University of Colorado
April 14, 1994
“Living Right in the Rockies – The Impact of Wallace Stegner’s Thought on Western Architecture”
by Jeffrey and Patricia Limerick
