Events
Upcoming Events
Author's Panel for A Watershed Moment- A Discussion on Land Use And Planning
Bozeman Public Library- Community Room
Wednesday September 3, 2025 5:30 PM
A panel discussion with the Authors and Editors of "A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits" to discuss the themes of the book – the myth of the West and the local (unsustainable) impacts that this myth has had both ecologically and socially.
Free and open to the public.
This event is co-hosted by C-STES, and American Studies
Recent Events
Chris La Tray: Becoming Little Shell
American Indian Hall 166
Monday, April 21, 2025 5:00 PM
Montana Poet Laureate, Chris La Tray speaks on his new book, "Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home"
Free and open to the public.
This event is cosponsored by History & Philosophy, Modern Languages, and American Studies
A Conversation with Greg LaDonne
Webinar
Friday, April 4, 2025 12:00 PM
Doctoral student Greg LaDonne is the 2024 recipient of MSU’s DCTA Award. LaDonne is a fourth-year Ph.D candidate at UC Colorado Boulder. He is focusing on “rewilding” and posits that the concept is not new, but a mainstream idea in environmental history that informs present-day decisionmaking by nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and individuals.
REMNANTS OF ANCIENT LIFE: THE NEW SCIENCE OF OLD FOSSILS
Museum of the Rockies Hager Auditorium
October 3, 2024 7:00 PM
Ancient lake sediments in northwestern Montana contain one of the most significant repositories of fossil insects in the world. The 46-million-year-old site is the only known source of fossilized blood-engorged mosquitos and, extraordinarily, remnants of their last blood meals. Dr. Dale Greenwalt, a researcher at the National Museum of Natural History, has spent more than a decade studying these specimens and their biomolecules–pigments and proteins that were once integral components of living insects. His work exemplifies a new field of paleobiology; using fossils containing ancient proteins, viruses, and DNA, paleobiologists around the world are uncovering the secrets of organisms–dinosaurs, plants, and humans–from the deep past. Please join us for Dr. Greenwalt’s presentation on how an emerging science that studies the biomolecules of fossils is transforming our understanding of the evolution of life on Earth.
Co-hosted by Montana State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands and Peoples of the North American West.
The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World
American Indian Hall 166
Monday, January 23, 2023 5PM
Join Dr. Katherine Johnston as she discusses her recently published book, The Nature of Slavery. Book signing to follow with copies available for purchse.
Free and open to the public.
This event is co-hosted by the Ivan Doig Center and the Extreme History Project.
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More past events hosted and sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center can be found here.