American West Working Group
The Bill Lane Center is dedicated to promoting research and scholarly exchanges related to the American West. The American West Working Group, which meets weekly on Fridays at noon, offers an inter- and multi-disciplinary platform for researchers to present and receive feedback on their latest work. To that end, participants are particularly encouraged to share work-in-progress and preliminary findings. Attendees include faculty, students staff and other affiliates.
Email Esther Conrad at esther [at] stanford.edu (esther[at]stanford[dot]edu) for more information.
Spring 2026 American West Working Group schedule
Seminars are held at noon in person (lunch provided) and on Zoom. If you are interested in attending any of the talks listed below, please email esther [at] stanford.edu (esther[at]stanford[dot]edu).
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| April 3 | Assistant Professor, School for Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, and Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center | When Yellowstone Became a Place |
| April 17 | Prof. of Economics, Carleton College, and Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center | State vs. Local: The challenges of groundwater management in California |
| May 1 | Dept. of Political Science, Stanford University | TBD |
| May 15 | Dept. of Political Science, Stanford University | TBD |
| May 22 | Dept. of English, Stanford University | TBD |
