Past Conferences
Past Programs:
Past Keynote Speakers:
| Name | Description | Year | Website |
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Jennifer Lynn |
Title: Saving Democracy: What Research, Creativity, and Civic Engagement Mean for our Future A Professor in the Department of History, Co-Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Center at Montana State University Billings, Chair of Academic Senate, and MSUB alumna. |
2023 |
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Cathy Whitlock |
Title: Yellowstone's Past, Yellowstone's Future A Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, a Fellow of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, and the first Montanan to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. |
2022 |
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| Rosalyn LaPier |
Title: Why Write? Traditionally trained ethnobotanist at the University of Montana and a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. |
2021 |
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| Gary Ferguson xxxxxxxxxxx |
Title: Lessons form the Wild: Nature and Creativity Nature and ecology author who has served as the William Kittredge Distinguished Writer at the University of Montana and a Seigle Scholar at Washington University, St. Louis. |
2019 |
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| Philip Aaberg |
Title: Metacognition, Creativity and Connection on the High Plains Grammy and Emmy nominated composer who has played with the Boston Pops, toured with Peter Gabriel and recorded with the Doobie Brothers, Kenny Rogers and Vince Gill. |
2018 xxxxxxxx |
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| Joe Shaw |
Title: Learning to see; seeing to learn Electro-optical engineer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at MSU. |
2017 | |
| John Clayton |
Title: Research, The Fulfilling Quest: or, How a 100-Year-Old Sex Scandal Arose to become the Most Satisfying Moment of My Career Montana-based nonfiction writer whose works include books on the creation of America's public lands, Yellowstone National Park and Caroline Lockhart. |
2016 |