Event Videos

Richard Nevle, Steven Nightingale, and Nicole Ardoin discuss "The Paradise Notebooks" and research on the development of pro-environmental behavior.

The ninth State of the West Symposium dives into the issues surrounding the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.

Mark Arax stops by to discuss his newest book, "The Dreamt Land."

John Leshy’s new history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground (Yale University Press, 2022), explains how the U.S. government came to hold nearly 30% of the land in the nation (more than 600...

Apr. 26, 2022, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master designer of public parks and a founder of the field of landscape architecture. Join historian and filmmaker...

The epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s when the surrounding communities saw their once "inexhaustible" redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed...

Based on Professor Gavin Jones's recent book about John Steinbeck, this conversation will consider the author's relevance to our contemporary world and his interest in pressing issues such as climate...

Author Blaine Harden stops by the Bill Lane Center to speak about myths and his book "Murder at the Mission"

About the Book Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by...

Cameron Blevins, former Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellow, will stop by to the Lane Center to discuss his new book, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West. Blevins will be joined...