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Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

Lectures & Events

The Redd Center regularly sponsors public lectures to allow scholars to share research and invite the academic community at BYU, along with the general public, to learn more about the Intermountain West. While the number of lectures presented each year varies, there are three annual named lectures: The Annaley Naegle Redd Lecture, held at the time of the Redd Center annual board meeting, the Howard and Hazel Butler Peters Lecture, and a lecture given by a recipient of a Clarence Dixon Taylor Award.

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    2025

    January 23 - Steven R. Simms, March 13 - Amy Thiriot, November 6 - Yolonda Youngs

    2024

    February 16 - BYU Slavery Project Conference: Truth and Reconciliation, February 22 - Alexia Williams, February 22 - Emily Burns, March 7 - Elliott West, March 21 - Nan MacEntire, April 9 - Scott Ure, October 3 - Jay Buckley and Fred Woods, October 17 - Newell Boyd Knight, November 7 - Bren M. Rogers, November 21 - Paul Formisano

    2023

    January 26 - Fred Woods, January 30 - Lynne McNeil, March 2 - Sasha C. Reed, April 11 - Yukio Shimomura, September 21 - Mark Johnson, October 5 - Erika Bsumek, November 9 - Matthew Grow

    2022

    January 26 - Simon J. Bronner, February 17 - Fred E. Woods, March 25 - Gregory E. Smoak, May 19 through May 21 - Railroads in Native America Gathering, October 6 - William W. Tanner, November 3 - Adam M. Sowards, November 18 - Tiffany González

    2021

    January 29 - Jeannie Banks Thomas, March 4 - Walter Echo-Hawk, March 25 - Thomas G. Alexander, September 23 - Felipe Hinojosa, November 11 - Maurice Crandall, December 2 - Eric Thacker

    2020

    January 23 - John R. Alley, January 30 - Carol Cornwall Madsen, February 27 - Megan Kate Nelson

    2019

    January 31 - Tonya Reiter, March 7 - Donald Fixico, March 21 - Jen Graber, June 3 - Stephen Pyne, September 19 - Rosina Lozano, October 24 - Rosalyn LaPier, November 14 - Brian Cannon

    2018

    January 18 - Brent Rogers, February 22 - Dan Flores, February 27 - Angela Hudson, March 7 - No Man's Land Film Screening, April 5 - Bears Ears Panel, September 27 - Andrew Kirk, October 25 - Andrés Reséndez, November 7 - Fred E. Woods, November 8 - Darren Parry, December 6 - Bart Elmore

    2017

    January 25 - Elliot Oring, February 2 - Jerry and Donna Spangler, March 23 - David Wrobel, September 21 - Benjamin Madley, October 12 - Joseph Taylor, October 26 - David Baron, November 17 - Tracy Brown, November 30 - Larry Cebula, December 7 - Pamela Perlich

    2016

    January 27 - Paul Reeve, February 25 - James Brooks, February 26 - Shelley Fishkin, March 3 - LeAnne Howe, March 10 - Sujey Vega, March 30 - Forrest Cuch, March 31 - Lisa Fillerup, Junen 6 - Tacey Atsitty, September 16 - Thomas F. Simpson, September 22 - Fawn-Amber Montoya, September 29 - Leisl Childers, October 14 - David Gessener, November 3 - Jeffrey Sanders, December 1 - Raphael Folsom

    2015

    February 26 - Jon T. Coleman, March 12 - D. Robert Carter, March 26 - Dr. Steven C. Armstrup, April 3 - Daniel Beard, June 12 - Major Howard Egan Symposium, September 10 - George Annandale, September 17 - Peter Goin, October 1 - Peter Nabokov, October 15 - Michel Hogue, October 29 - Sarah Fox, November 5 - Richard Francaviglia

    2014

    January 28 - Anne Hyde, February 20 - Jared Farmer, March 20 - Fred Provenza, September 11 - Ellen Gruber Garvey, October 20 - Ari Kelman, November 6 - Daniel Herman

    2013

    March 1 - Erin Thomas, March 20 - Stephen Aron, March 29 - Claudia Bushman, April 12 - P. Jane Hafen: The Grace and Endurance of Native Women, September 18 - Michael A. Amundson, October 4 - Mark Fiege, October 17 - John J. Valadez, October 24 - Paul C. Gutjahr, November 6 - Steve Siporin, November 7 - Jared Tamez, Jovember 21 - Loren O. Joseph

    2012

    February 16 - Maria Montoya, March 29 - Richard Francaviglia, - September 13 - John Turner, November 8 - Dr. Larsen, Gill, McMillan, and St. Clair, November 9 - Edouardo Zendejas, November 14 - Thomas Mould

    2011

    January 27 - Michon Mackedon, February 17 - Patrick Mason, February 24 - John R. Wunder, September 29 - Gilbert G. Gonzalez, October 20 - Greg Mac Gregor and Siegfried Halus, November 30 - Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster

    2010

    February 8 - Thomas G. Andrews, March 25 - Virginia Scharff, March 30 - Ronald Walker, September 2 - Brenn Hill

    2009

    April 10 - Jared Farmer, February 19 - Ignacio Garcia, February 26 - Ericka Marie Bsumek, March 25 - P. Jane Hafen, March 27 - Jacqueline Johnson-Pata, October 21 - James M. Aton

    2007

    February 20 - Jessie L. Embry, March 21 - Clyde Milner