Past Events

Today, #Landback has become a popular tagline that describes Indigenous people’s efforts to reclaim their ancestral homelands. Although many historians have rightfully emphasized the dispossession of tribal land, Native Nations have been reclaiming land in the United States for centuries. Join Dr. Eric Zimmer for a conversation and film screening about two Indigenous land reclamation projects he’s working on

Free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the MSU Ivan Doig Center, the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, and the MSU Department of History & Philosophy.

The Elers Koch Lecture honors the legacy of Elers Koch as a forester and conservationist, and his contributions to the arts through his writing, as well as the contributions of the Koch family to Montana culture. Mark Fiege, the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, will present his lecture on Elers Koch.

Free and open to the public.

This event is co-sponsored by the MSU Ivan Doig Center, the MSU School of Art, the Wallace Stegner Chair in Western American Studies, and the MSU Department of History & Philosophy

Michael K. Johnson, author of a recently published book about the daughter of an emancipated slave who lived most of her life in White Sulphur Springs, delivered a talk and signed books.

Documentary Screening

Free and open to the public

Dr. Kelsey Leonard, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, will present.

Free and open to the public

For more details about the podcast series and its project, visit Ivan Doig New Podcast Series

Professor and Author Mark Johnson will discuss his new book,” The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana” 

This event is co-sponsored by the MSU Ivan Doig Center and the Extreme History Project.

Author Molly Rozum will give a talk on her book, "Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadians Prairies," at the Extreme History Project. This event is co-sponsored by the MSU Ivan Doig Center and the Extreme History Project.

Month, Dr. Jennifer J. Hill will discuss her new book, Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains at 4 pm in Leigh Lounge in the Strand Union Building on the MSU campus. The event is free and open to the public, a reception will follow her talk and books will be available for purchase. For more information visit this link.

Join us as we hear Doig award recipients talk about doing research during a global pandemic.

Join us as Sandy Sward, Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs, and Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Head of Archives and Special Collections discuss how to write a successful grant proposal budget.

Richard Maska, PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico, recently completed his research trip to the Montana State University Library's Special Collections. His trip was cosponsored and funded by the MSU Library and Ivan Doig Center.

Come hear PhD candidate Anthony Wood, discuss his new book and research Black Montana.

Come join Dr. Brenden Rensink as he talks about his new book, Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, and his work as the Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.

Dr. Rensink's book "compares experiences of indigenous people who were labeled as 'foreign' after they traversed imposed North American borders into the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Moving in waves of traders, laborers, and political refugees, their histories challenge familiar constructs of "indigenous" and "immigrants" in American history and complicate borderlands and Indigenous histories in the North American West."

"This Month's Read: Prairie Nocturne
by Ivan Doig
Set during the Harlem Renaissance in New
York and Montana, Prairie Nocturne describes
the story of two former lovers, Susan Duffy and
Wesley Williamson. They reunite with an
unlikely shared goal: to launch the singing
career of Monty Rothbun, a man on the
perceived wrong side of the racial divide. Special Guests: Dr. Mary Murphy &
Jan Zauha will lead a discussion of the book."

An Extreme History podcast discussing how Mary came to history, and how her research interests landed in Butte, MT. It discusses her early research on women's leisure in Butte and her more recent work on the history of food, focusing in on the history of Chinese food in America.

Join MSU researchers Carmen Byker Shanks, Michelle Grocke, and Justin Shanks as they share the results of one of the first statewide studies of the pandemic's effect on Montanans' well-being.

For more details about the roundtable see the description of the topics to be covered.

Partial recording posted here. Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center at Montana State University.

Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Montana State University.

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Fostering Effective Oral Communication Skills for STEM Graduate Students, the Liberal Studies Program, the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, the Department of Ecology, and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the MSU Department of History and Philosophy and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the MSU's Queer Straight Alliance and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by MSU's College of Arts and Architecture and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by MSU's Native American Studies Department, and Native Land Project and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by MSU's School of Film and Photography and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the MSU Library and the Ivan Doig Center

Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center