Event Videos

Lukas Felzmann, an artist and Affiliate Scholar at the Bill Lane Center, has been working on a new photographic archive of California. As an extension of this practice he is inviting other artists to...

For thousands of years, fishing has been the central livelihood of the Yurok people, California’s largest indigenous tribe. But after eight dams were built between 1900 and 1962 on the Klamath River...

Wildfires have burned in the American West from time out of mind, well before humans entered the region. But recent years have seen an unprecedented explosion in the size and number of fires. They...

Dr. Phil Polakoff joins the Lane Center to discuss the recent initiatives led by his organization, Healthier Rural America. Healthier Rural America believes that progress is possible when rural...

Questions and Answers by Carol McKibben To the best of your knowledge, are there any similarities between the agricultural/urban characteristics of Salinas and San Jose of 100 years ago? For...

The COVID-19 pandemic started slowly in the rural West, but more recently many rural regions have been overwhelmed. Understanding health risks, working with state officials to develop rules to slow...

Bruce Cain, Bill Lane Center Faculty Director, will participate in an event presented by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. The 2020 election and its aftershocks...

*New Date* This event has been postponed to February 2 from January 12 Steve Inskeep, radio host and author, stops by the Lane Center to talk about his new book, Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John...

The 2021 iteration of the program will occur virtually and in three parts spread over the winter and spring of 2021. "COVID-19 and the Western States" is the title of the first program and will...

Join us for a conversation between Jason De León, anthropologist, curator and faculty at UCLA; Angela Garcia, Associate Professor in Anthropology at Stanford; Jon Ayon Alonso, MFA candidate in...