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Free and Open to the Public. Formal registration has ended. You are welcome to attend any of the lectures, please join us!
Connelly He is currently working on a history of East Central Europe, 1784-present, due to appear with Princeton University Press. Other work of his has appeared in Minerva, East European Politics and Societies, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, The Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, The Nation, the London Review of Books, Znak (Krakow) and Commonweal. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Spencer Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Institute for
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Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.
creative practice, drawing traditional and experimental writing and art into conversation through a feminist, queer language politics. And I encourage each writer to gather around their work an expansive, eclectic archive of writers, thinkers, and artists whose practices inspire, challenge, and drive inquiry ever deeper, stranger, and more true to their individual vision.
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The Burton Ostenson Natural History Museum at Pacific Lutheran University houses over 10,000 preserved animal specimens collected and preserved by PLU faculty, students, and member of the Tacoma
enumerated.UseMuseum specimens are used by students in PLU courses as tools for exploring biodiversity. Having access to a diversity of preserved specimens gives PLU students a unique opportunity to directly interact with diverse organisms in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Current courses that utilize museum specimens include: BIOL 226 (Genes, Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology); BIOL 352 (Comparative Anatomy); BIOL 353 (Invertebrate Zoology); BIOL 354 (Natural History of Vertebrates); BIOL 355
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What goes into the production of a quarter pound burger? According to J.L. Capper in The Journal of Animal Science, 6.7 pounds of feed, 52.8 gallons of drinking water, 74.5 square feet of grazing, and the equivalent amount of energy it takes to run a microwave…
society. “This is an excellent opportunity to have public discussion about human consumption of animal flesh, a critically important ethical question that impacts all of our lives. It is also a wonderful and unique set-up for a debate where I have the chance to both partner with and learn alongside undergraduate students,” Emmerman said. Dr. Michael Schleeter is an Assistant Professor at PLU with a B.A. in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Biology from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in
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Each year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program. This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first
to include diverse campus and community members interested in comparative views of topics of contemporary significance. The ninety-five audience members who attended the lecture in November 2014 included Harstad family and donors to the Harstad lecture, majors and minors in the programs of Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies, students and faculty involved in courses, interdisciplinary programs and campus initiatives on gender equality, and local community members and members of the
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 17, 2017)- The last time anyone from Austin Beiermann’s family left the country, it was to fight in a war. This summer, he is going to do the exact opposite. “I am going to build peace,” Beiermann said. Beiermann ’18 will join…
is the fifth batch of PLU students to attend the international program. They leave June 17. Beiermann is majoring in politics and government, as well as economics. Traveling with Campus Ministry to the Lutheran Vocation Conference in the fall inspired him to apply for the Peace Scholars Program. “Something that stuck with me from the conference was, when people have deeply rooted values and there are tensions between them, how do you handle that?” he said. This has become an important question
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Core Courses GSRS 201 – Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies (required of majors & minors, offered every semester) GSRS 301 – Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Race (required
Black Atlantic POLS 288* – when taught as “Latino Experience in the U.S.” POLS 365 – Racial and Ethnic Politics POLS 374 – Mass Incarceration PSYC 335 – Cultural Psychology RELI 230 – when taught as “African-American Religious Traditions” or “Islam in America” RELI 236 – Native American Religious Traditions RELI 354 – when taught as “Race & Gender in Theology” RELI 393 – when taught as “Tacoma Buddhism” or “Religious Diversity, Health, Healing” SOCI 332 – Race and Ethnicity SOCI 387 – when taught as
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Emma Lazarus called America the “mother of exiles” in her poem, “The New Colossus,” which graces the Statue of Liberty.
Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010). She writes on immigration history and policy for the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, Dissent, and other venues. Ngai is now writing two books, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (forthcoming from WW Norton) and Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea (forthcoming from Princeton).We hope that you will be able to attend this yearThe lecture is accessible to wide ranging audiences, including
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Members of the PLU community are invited to participate in a reading group challenge. THE CHALLENGE First, select one of the Migration symposium related texts or films from the list below.
Orleans’ Population After Hurricane KatrinaBy: Elizabeth Fussell View the PDFAfghanistan: Identity, Society and Politics since 1980Edited by: Micheline Centlivres-Demont View the PDFThe Origins and Causes of MigrationBy: Elizabeth Fussell View the PDFViewing Challenge Video Selection Los Lecheros(contact the Wang Center for password) By: Jim Cricchi View the videoI am Jane DoeBy: Mary Mazzio View the videoA World of Difference: El Paso, TX(contact the Wang Center for password) By MediaLab View the
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TACOMA, Wash. (April 29, 2015)— LollaPLUza, the annual one-day spring music festival produced by the PLU Student Activities Board (SAB), will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 1-7 p.m. on the PLU Golf Course. With a focus on up-and-coming Pacific Northwest talent, headlining band…
!”, said LollaPLUza PR Director, Grace Takehara ’17. BELOW: Photos from LollaPLUza 2015 by Campus Photographer John Froschauer. Full Event Preview by Mast Media Read Previous Hands-on conservation program launched by PLU’s military outreach director helps connect students to the earth Read Next PLU alumna, first black woman to serve as state senator, dedicated 20 years in politics to health care, social justice COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might
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