Original article can be found at Billings Gazette
Originally published on July 13, 2017
As a part of its year-long centennial celebration, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Buffalo Bill Museum is bringing international scholars and museum professionals to Cody, Wyoming, for a symposium Aug. 2-5.
Session topics will consider William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s life and enterprises in the context of American western studies, including his place in the regional history of settlement, in the popularization of frontier nationalism in America and abroad, and in the development of western historiography.
Each day of the Centennial Symposium begins at 8 a.m. in the Center’s Coe Auditorium. Day 1 opens Wednesday, August 2. Cost of the first day is $40 for Buffalo Bill Center of the West members and $50 for nonmembers. For individuals wishing to attend all three days the cost is $180 for members and $200 for nonmembers; the deadline to register is July 28. After all presentations a reception is scheduled to follow at 6 p.m.
Lecture topics for the first day include: Interpreting Buffalo Bill through Public History; Becoming Buffalo Bill; The Persistent Power of Paradox, Patty Limerick; Childhood, Girlhood, and Performing Identity; and The Legacy of Buffalo Bill at the Center of the West.
On Thursday, Aug. 3, the following topics will be discussed: Promoting and Consuming the Wild West; Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Abroad; Cross-Cultural Family Experiences, Arthur Amiotte; The Wild West and European Nationalism; New Approaches to Cody Studies; and Buffalo Bill in the Borderlands, Louis Warren. Cost of this day is $70 for members and $75 for nonmembers.
On Friday, Aug. 4, the following lecture topics will be featured: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Public Memory; The Wild West in the European Visual Imagination; Buffalo Bill and “Dime Novelitis,” Christine Bold; Multicultural Legacies of the Wild West; Buffalo Bill’s America and the Future of Cody Studies; and Buffalo Bill and the Creations of the Frontier Myth, Paul Hutton. Cost of this day is $70 for members and $75 for nonmembers.
To register for the Centennial Symposium, visit tickets.centerofthewest.org. For more information about the symposium as well as the detailed program schedule for each day, visit centerofthewest.org/event/symposium-buffalo-bill-centennial/. Individuals with further questions may contact Jeremy Johnston at jeremyj@centerofthewest.org or 307-578-4032.