![at PLU on Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) Catherine Sandnes lecture](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/cathrine-sandnes-lecture.jpg)
Past Bjug A. Harstad Memorial Lectures
![lisbeth-petterson-waerp Dr. Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/lisbeth-petterson-waerp.jpg)
2018-2019 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“ Ibsen and Place“
Dr. Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp, Professor of Scandinavian Literature
University of Tromsø – Artic University of Norway
2017-2018 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“ Bjug Harstad – A Man For All Seasons“
Dr. Phil Nordquist, Professor Emertius of History
![Dr. Phil Nordquist Dr. Phil Nordquist](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/dr.-phil-nordquist.jpg)
![sigbjørn-skåden Sigbjørn Skåden](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/sigbjorn-skaden.jpg)
2016-2017 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“Puncturing The Exotic: A Recipe For How To Try To Be Funny Sometimes”
Sigbjørn Skåden, an award-winning Sámi poet and novelist from Norway
2015-2016 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“The Role of National Identities in a Rapidly Changing World”
Dr. Hege C. Finholt
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo
![hege-c.-finholt Dr. Hege C. Finholt](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/hege-c.-finholt.jpg)
![cathrine_sandnes_oslo_bokfestival_2011 Cathrine Sandnes](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/cathrine_sandnes_oslo_bokfestival_2011.jpg)
2014-2015 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“Why Norwegian Women Can Have It All”
Cathrine Sandnes
Norwegian journalist and editor
2013-14 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture
“The Arctic Pastoral: Nordic Polar Literature at the Turn of the Century”
Professor Henning Howlid Wærp
Professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Tromsø
![henning-waerp Henning Howlid Wærp](https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/737/2024/01/henning-waerp.jpg)
Previous Bjug A. Harstad Lecture Scholars
2011-2012 Eldbjørg Hemsing
2010-2011 Marta Norheim
2009-2010 Sigrun Slapgard
2007-2008 Per Thomas Andersen
2006-2007 Ingeborg Kongslien
2005-2006 Dr. Ande Somby
2004-2005 Professor Helge Pharo
2003-2004 Lars Anders Kulbrandstad
2002-2003 Jon-Roar Bjorkvold
2001-2002 Jahn Otto Johansen
2000-2001 Thorvald Stoltenberg
1998-1999 Odd S. Lovell
1997-1998 Gunnar Sonsteby