Northern sets Fall 2016 Chancellor's Lecture Series

Press release

The Chancellor’s Lecture Series committee members have announced the Fall 2016 events. Designed to create campus and communitywide conversation, the Fall 2016 Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series will consist of three presentations by distinguished guests. All presentations are free and open to the public. All presentations begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hensler Auditorium in the Applied Technology Center.

Walt Whitman and the Civil War with Dave Caserio and Parker Brown

Tuesday, Sept. 20, Caserio will present a dramatic, high-energy, Reader’s-Theatre performance based on the work of Walt Whitman followed by an open-ended discussion of the material and the literary, contemporary, and historical questions and issues that it invokes. His performance is accompanied by Parker Brown on acoustic bass. Based on the poetry, prose, journals, and letters of Walt Whitman, Caserio takes the audience from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the heady onset of the Civil War, from battlefield to the hospital ward, through the long years of war to the conflict’s end and the death of Lincoln.

Dueling Paintbrushes: George Catlin and Karl Bodmer on the Missouri with Kristi Hager

Tuesday, Oct. 4, Hager will present a lecture about two painters who traveled up the Missouri River within a year of each other, George Catlin in 1832, Karl Bodmer in 1833. They had very different temperaments and very different styles of painting the same Indian villages, the same chiefs, the same sacred rituals, the same bison herds, the same river bluffs. Catlin and Bodmer also documented how each tribe painted accounts of their own lives in their own style on tipis, drums, and buffalo hides. This abundance of painting is a rich visual record of the High Plains at a unique time after Lewis & Clark but before the arrival of railways and photography.

Hand-Raised: The Historic Barns of Montana with Chere Jiusto and Christine Brown

Thursday, Nov. 3, Jiusto and Brown from the Montana Preservation Alliance will facilitate a conversation about the historic barns of Montana, a threatened part of our heritage. To capture their history and encourage their preservation, Chere Jiusto, Christine Brown and photographer Tom Ferris collaborated on the award-winning book “Hand Raised: Historic Barns of Montana,” released by Montana Historical

Society Press in 2011. This conversation includes an overview of Montana’s barn-building history, stunning photographs of barns from across the state, and the stories attached to some of Montana’s most memorable, photogenic, and historic

barns.

For more information on the series, people can go online to msun.edu/news/calendar/events2016/ChancellorSeries.aspx.