Daniel Kemmis will serve as a guest speaker at the Wyoming Arts Summit on Saturday, Oct. 20, 8-9:15 a.m., in the Casper Events Center. Kemmis is a senior fellow in public policy at the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana in Missoula. He was mayor of Missoula before joining the Center in 1996. He also has served in the Montana Legislature as speaker of the house.
Here's his full bio from the O'Connor Center web site:
Kemmis is the author of Community and The Politics of Place and The Good City and the Good Life. His newest book, This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West, was published by Island Press in June of 2001. He's published numerous articles on public policy in the West, democratic theory and practice, community and community building, and regionalism, and he is frequently invited to speak on these and related topics at regional and national conferences. He was recognized by the Utne Reader in 1995 as one of its "100 Visionaries." In 1997, President Clinton awarded Kemmis the Charles Frankel Prize for outstanding contribution to the field of the humanities. In 1998, the Center of the American West awarded him the Wallace Stegner Prize for sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West. In the fall of 1998 he was awarded a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics. In 2002, his book This Sovereign Land was the top choice for the Interior Department's Executive Forum Speaker Series.
Other guest speakers for the Oct. 19-20 Summit in Casper include Dana Gioia, Robert Bluestone, Patrick Overton, and Stuart Rosenfeld. To register for the Summit, go to the Wyoming Arts Council web site.
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