Event Videos

Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West is convening a workshop to devise strategies for improving health care and wellness in the rural West. Rural health care is deficient...

Note: A recap of the event with complete video is now available on our website. Join us for a lecture presented by Stanford Professor Marci Kwon (Art & Art History) as part of the Bill Lane Center for...

Join us for a discussion on Silicon Valley in American History with David M. Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, and Leslie Berlin, Project Historian for the Silicon...

Learn more about ArtsWest programs at the Center. The world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own...

The year 2016 marked the 75th anniversary of America’s entry into World War II. Accordingly, Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West is sponsoring a series of programs that focus...

To the American public, Vicente Fox may be Mexico’s most well-known, modern politician. Prior to becoming president, he received a top management diploma from Harvard Business School and went on to...

The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University is hosting the Spence and Cleone Eccles Family Rural West Conference from March 23-25, 2017 at the School for Advanced Research in...

Please join us on January 25th as we celebrate the 2016 Knight-Risser Prize winner Ian James and his colleagues at the Desert Sun and USA Today. Their report, “Pumped Dry”explored groundwater...

Please join us on January 25th as we celebrate the 2016 Knight-Risser Prize winner Ian James and his colleagues at the Desert Sun and USA Today. Their report, “Pumped Dry”explored groundwater...

Read a recap of the event with complete video: Groundwater Forum Brings Research to Policymakers in Sacramento Scholars working with Water in the West, a program of the Stanford Woods Institute for...