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Cece Chan ’24 elevates the experience of Hmong Farmers and their rich history with Seattle’s Pike Place Market For Cece Chan ’24, what began as a love of student advocacy and social justice in high school, has blossomed into activism through art at Pacific Lutheran University. From serving as ASPLU president her junior year, to spending a semester in Trinidad and Tobago, to… April 26, 2024 Research & Academics
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worthwhile aspects of our work, innovating new ways to achieve our mission: educating students to engage—creatively, critically, and empathetically—with what it means to be human across the sweep of history, in diverse cultures and environments.Associate Professor of Religion Erik Hammerstrom re-imagined a concluding assignment for his course on the Religions of China to re-create a debate from the throne room of Emperor Wuzong in the year 841. The debate concerned how to balance Daoist, Buddhist, and
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William Carlos Williams pointed out, a poem is a machine made out of words. In the classroom, then, the poem can be discussed the way machines are discussed, with reference to the technical features that make the machine what it is. To speak of poems in this way, however, requires a scholar’s commitment to studying the genre’s history, its masters, as well as its formal and thematic dynamics. In my poetry-writing courses, it turns out that reading and studying poetry end up taking more time than the
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tore my knee it was a hard process letting go of that identity,” Monroe said. “But in some ways, that process allowed me to get involved in the greater community and fall in love with Tacoma.” After exploring his personal faith, Monroe entered seminary following graduation. The decision was partly due to encouragement from his roommate, Pat Query ’99, and being challenged by his history advisor Beth Kraig, who taught classes through the lens of social justice. Tad Monroe ’97 The Sabbath of Your
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Musical Memories Editor’s Note: When Lorna Vosburg Burt ’40, ’69 read our story on PLU’s annual Christmas Concerts in the winter 2013 edition of Scene magazine, she was inspired to recall—and share—her own Choir of the West story … from 1939. It was so full of history… March 21, 2014 AlumniChoir of the West
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In Her Mother's Footsteps: The Lives of Mary Shelley and Her Mother Mary WollstonecraftWednesday, Ma
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A conversation with 2016 Benson fellows Marc Vetter and Matthew Macfarlane PLU Student-Faculty Resea
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studies in our region. Soon after, Neal Sobania (Professor of History, at that time, the director of the Wang Center), asked if I would be interested in being the 2012 Site Director in Chengdu for a semester. The opportunity to take my family and actually study/teach in China for three and a half months was a no-brainer, and off we went…one suitcase each. When I was asked if I would be interested in repeating the experience this year, I figured it was a vocational calling and perhaps this journey will
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, adolescence, family relationships, illness, death, and much more in a way informed by an understanding of a wide range of human stories. Not just by aggregate data.” (Nussbaum, 26) Studying in the Humanities, then, means seeing the world authentically. It means trying to understand the richness of human experience, to trace its history, to value its variability. The humanities prompt us to ask who we are and how we came to be this way. They ask us to reflect, to understand, to see knowledge as a process
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