Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven Andrew Light are available for informative and entertaining speaking engagements before all types of audiences on a wide range of topics related to Indian gaming.  They have presented their work on Indian gaming at numerous national and international conferences, trainings and seminars, and symposia. In addition to their scholarly and professional presentations, they also provide training presentations tailored to specific audiences, such as “Indian Gaming 101,” “Indian Gaming: Fact or Fiction?,” and such topics as off-reservation gaming, tribal sovereignty, and recent legal and political developments.  Rand and Light also serve as facilitators.  Recent national presentations include:

Gambling and the American Moral Landscape, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Boston College, October 2007 in Boston.  Rand and Light have been invited to participate in this conference, which will bring together approximately 15 distinguished scholars from diverse fields of study and will be followed by the publication of conference papers in a volume edited by prominent scholar and Center Director Alan Wolfe.  Read more.

Annual Watkins Lecture, East Central University, October 2006 in Ada, Oklahoma.  Light and Rand were invited to give ECU’s annual Watkins Lecture.  Read more.

2007 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2007 in Las Vegas, NV (presentations on state law, tribal-state intergovernmental relations, and Indian gaming)

Pedagogy of American Indian Law Conference, October 2006 in Grand Forks, ND (moderated discussions of teaching federal Indian law topics)

13th International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, May 2006 in Tahoe, NV (presentations on Indian gaming law and policy reform)

Bingo.II Conference, March 2006 in Las Vegas, NV (presentations on the law and politics of Class II gaming)

Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, June 2005 in Las Vegas, NV (presentation on the influence of popular media accounts of Indian gaming on law and policy)

Indian Law Conference, April 2005 in Grand Forks, ND (presentation on tribal-state revenue sharing agreements)