Events
Upcoming Events
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The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World |
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. |
American Indian Hall 166 Monday, January 23, 2023 5pm |
Recent Events
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“Reclamation Histories: Indigenous Land Recovery at Boarding Schools and Beyond” |
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. |
American Indian Hall 166 Thursday, November 3, 2022 6pm |
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Dissenting Conservationist: Elers Koch and His Legacy |
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
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Museum of the Rockies Monday, October 24th, 2022 7pm |
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A Black Woman's West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon |
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. |
American Indian Hall 166
Monday, September 19th, 2022 6pm |
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Life in the Land: Connecting People and Place in Montana |
Documentary Screening Free and open to the public |
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 7pm Museum of the Rockies
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"Inherent Relationships, Earth Law, and the Pursuit of Water Justice" |
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 |
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 7pm Museum of the Rockies |
Interdisciplinary Regional WorkshopWater in the West: Toward Convergent Solutions to Water Security |
The Ivan Doig Center is partnering with the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Society and hosting a regional workshop on water. For more information please visit the CSTES conference page. | May 24-26, 2022 | |
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“The Wind from Eden: Montana Weather Stories," Podcast Series. |
For more details about the podcast series and its project, visit Ivan Doig New Podcast Series |
The podcast is available at Ivan Doig Projects
For more details about the podcast series and its project, |
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"The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana" |
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. |
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 at 6pm. Museum of the Rockies Hager Auditorium
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"Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies" |
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. |
Monday, May 9th, 2022 at 6pm. The Extreme History Project: 234 E Mendenhall St in Bozeman.
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Jennifer J. Hill Book Talk: Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains |
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. |
Location: Leigh Lounge Date: Monday, March 28, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM MST
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Research in the Year(s) of Covid Event |
Join us as we hear Doig award recipients talk about doing research during a global pandemic. |
Location: The Byker Auditorium Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Time: 1:00-2:30 PM MST |
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"Graduate Student Workshop: Writing a Grant Budget" |
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. |
Location: Wilson 2-274 Date: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m. MST
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MSU Distinctive Collections and Travel Access Award |
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. |
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Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930 by Anthony Wood |
Come hear PhD candidate Anthony Wood, discuss his new book and research Black Montana. |
Location: Procrastinator Theater Date: Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m. MST
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Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands by Brenden Rensink |
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." |
Location: Reid 452 Date: Friday, October 1st, 2021 Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. MST |
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Preserve Montana 2021 Book Club: Prairie Nocturne by Ivan Doig |
"This Month's Read: Prairie Nocturne |
2021 Book Club Date: Thursday, September 9th, 2021 Time: 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. MST
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The Dirt on the Past: Butte America with Mary Murphy |
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. |
Date: August 9, 2021 Recording: The recording for the presentation can be found here. |
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"Exploring the Impact of Covid-19 on Montanans' Well-Being" |
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. |
Date: April 15, 2021 Time: 6 p.m. Recording: The recording for the presentation can be found here.
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"Decolonizing Western Archives: How Public History and Scholarship Can Inform Each Other." |
For more details about the roundtable see the description of the topics to be covered. |
Date: April 8, 2021 Time: 1 p.m.
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"Shakespeare in the Treasure State: From Archives to Outdoor Performances," Online Community Event, Gretchen Minton and Kevin Brustuen |
Partial recording posted here. Sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center at Montana State University. |
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 6 p.m. Contact: [email protected]
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More past events hosted and sponsored by the Ivan Doig Center can be found here.