Lectures and Films
Explore the American West through our lectures, presentations, and videos. Take a look at what’s coming up, and click a video to watch past programs posted here.
Lectures
Our lectures cover western American subjects including art, wildlife, natural science, Plains Indian history and culture, firearms, and the Greater Yellowstone region.
Draper Museum of Natural History Lunchtime Expeditions
Join us the first Thursday of each month for our Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expeditions! These free lectures explore a variety of natural history subjects and issues. Lectures take place in our Coe Auditorium at 12:15 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Lunchtime Expeditions:
- December 5: Jeremy Johnston with Ernest Thompson-Seton and the Nature Faker Controversy. Although labeled a “nature faker” by some natural historians, Thompson-Seton strove to distance himself from nature fakers to gain professional respect from serious natural historians and recommitted himself to publish scientific studies of wildlife. Through his naturalist publications, Seton strove to demonstrate his past fictional narratives, no matter how exaggerated, were true representations of wildlife behavior and not just entertaining fictional stories.
Film Archive
Are you interested in learning more about some of the subjects we delve into here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West? Here is a selection of full-length videos of several presentations that have taken place here at the Center over the past couple years.
Click each video’s icon or title to play
Implications of Cutthroat Trout Declines for Breeding Ospreys and Bald Eagles at Yellowstone Lake
Presentation by Lisa Baril (2013)
Apart or A Part: Man’s Place in the Natural World
Presentation by Chris Madson
(2013)
Gray Wolf Management in Wyoming
Presentation by Mark Bruscino
(2013)
The Life and Enduring Legacy of Rachel Carson
Presentation by John Rumm
(2013)
The German Wild West: William F. Cody and Karl May
Presentation by Julia Stetler and Andre Kohler
(2012)
Spirited Discussions (extended) with Louis Warren
Discussion with John Rumm
(2012)
William F. Cody and the Commemoration of Little Bighorn
Presentation by Chris Dixon
(2012)
Whitebark Pine Ecology: Management of an Ecosystem in Decline
Presentation by Dan Reinhart
(2012)
Let’s Talk Yellowstone to Yukon
Presentation by Harvey Locke
(2011)
Whispers in the Rock: Stories from Northwestern Wyoming Strata
Presentation by Gretchen L. Hurley, BLM Cody Field Office
(2012)
Atlas of Yellowstone
Presentation by Andrew Marcus, Jim Meacham, and Ann Rodman
(2012)
New Views of Yellowstone’s Thermal Features
Presentation by Cheryl Jawarowski, Geologist for Yellowstone National Park (2012)
The Wolves of Yellowstone: The First 15 Years, 1995 – 2010
Presentation by Doug Smith, Biologist for Yellowstone National Park (2012)
