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  • The Seventeenth Dale E. Benson Lecture Glory M. Liu, Johns Hopkins University Glory M. Liu, Johns Hopkins University. Image Credit: Nicole Marie Photograph On Thursday October 19, 2023, the PLU community welcomed Glory M. Liu of Johns Hopkins University to present the 17th Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place in the Regency Room of the Anderson University Center. There was also a pre-lecture conversation with Dr. Liu and students in Xavier 201, hosted

  • Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience Kara Atkinson ’23 earned an associate degree while serving as an Arabic linguist in the United States Army prior to her arrival at PLU. A history major with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies , Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education… May 5, 2023 HistoryResearchServiceStudent/Faculty ResearchTransfer

  • , faculty and staff of color that is rooted in multicultural faith traditions, praise & worship, and opportunities for prayer and expression.FEB 13 Black History Month RallyRed Square – TBD In honor of the 2018 Black History Month theme “African Americans in Times of War,” BSU is hosting a rally to pause and consider the specific and unique issues faced by African Americans in times of war and to commemorate African American veterans. More information about this event will be sent out via email.FEB 16

  • grey area in the Anderson University Center during the month of February to view this art piece.FEB 9 Black History Quiz BowlPflueger Hall 2nd Floor Lounge – 6pm Join the PLU Black Student Union as we host our first official event during Black History Month. This night will host a Jeopardy style quiz game based on Black History facts and figures.FEB 13 BSU Club Meeting Movie & Discussion: 13thThe Diversity Center – 6:30pm Join the Black Student Union for our first club meeting for the Spring 2017

  • On Exhibit – Pandemics: History & Responses Posted by: Holly Senn / March 17, 2020 March 17, 2020 Today many of us are considering our lives, loved ones, and our way of being in the world in relation to the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. The course of this pandemic can be changed by people who have reliable information, make decisions that consider others, and remain hopeful and diligent. These books from the Mortvedt Library collection document historical and current pandemics, their effects, and

  • saying,” is one historian’s way of reporting what never occurred. How is it that history persists in individuals who have no claim upon them? Moreover (and more curiously) how is it that we feel it is good to know about this famous, if apocryphal, sentence?History will judge. . . How often history, to whose powers of calm reflection contemporaries blithely relegate the responsibility of deciding this or that question of momentous import, dissolves under close scrutiny into a confused welter of

  • When Two PLU Historians Sit Down to Chat One smoky August afternoon Dr Beth Kraig and I decided to beat the heat and take shelter in the cooling confines of the University of Washington, Tacoma library, to have a cheery chat about plagues. We thought this would be a fun topic to discuss,… October 8, 2018 historyplaguePLU History Department

  • Can the Innovation Studies minor help you to be more (well…) innovative? By Damian Alessandro. Innovation .  If you read the popular press, you’ll see that this word is constantly thrown around in professional settings. But what does it mean? For some, innovation is all about progression and disruption. One of the defining ideologies of our time,… November 8, 2017 Damian Alessandrodisruptionentrepreneurial thinkinghistory of technologyInnovation minorinterdisciplinary

  • Lutheran Studies at PLU welcomes students, faculty, staff, and alumni into this global network, into the significant dialogue between cultures as we engage the pressing economic, political, and

    The 13th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference More Information Lutheran Studies at Pacific Lutheran UniversityPLU has been a lively center for the study of Lutheran higher education and the global Lutheran tradition since its beginnings in 1890. Distinguished lecturers, undergraduate courses in history, music, scripture, theology, and the visual arts, study away classes in Germany, Namibia, and Norway, campus ministry workshops, faith and reason dialogues, faculty publications and public

    Lutheran Studies at PLU
    Hauge Administration Building Room 220C Tacoma, WA 98447-0003