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Broadway and Hollywood, performed by PLU’s brightest talents! Director: Tom Smith, Musical Director: Amy Boers, Choreographer: Taya Lovejoy (‘25)Class of 1974 50th Reunion – 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center Lutes in the Class of 1974 are gathering to celebrate 50 years since graduating from PLU! $60 per person. Click here for more information. PLU Football Dinner Gala – 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Chris Knutzen Hall, Anderson University Center Come celebrate PLU Football

2017 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe 10th annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education “Synagogue & Church” will take place November 1-3 at Pacific Lutheran University. The conference will dive into the controversial role of the Roman Catholic Church and its relationship to the events of the Holocaust. The speakers will present on the heated debate about the role of Pope Pius XII, examine the role of Catholic antisemitism, inaction by many Church leaders, and

“Jewish Resistance and Rescue during the Holocaust”“Jews went like sheep to the slaughter,” is often heard in popular accounts of how the Holocaust unfolded. “Why didn’t Jews fight back, resist?” “If death was a certainty, why didn’t they rise up?” These are some of the most often repeated questions students ask educators when addressing the image of Jewish passivity in the face of Nazi persecution. These types of questions, while completely discredited by scholarly works, continues to live on

/. Listed in this catalog are courses and summaries of degree requirements for majors, minors, and other programs in the College of Health Professions, College of Liberal Studies, College of Natural Sciences, and College of Professional Studies. Detailed requirements, often including supplementary sample programs, are available in the offices of the individual departments. Advising by University personnel inconsistent with published statements is not binding.

Community Engaged EducationMade possible by a generous gift from Drs. Grace and Peter Wang, the Center is an academic support unit dedicated to providing faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating for a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world at home and abroad” through faculty development and grant opportunities, delivery of study away programs, on-campus programming on pressing world issues and a commitment

Thursday, September 24, 2015 Tikkun Olam: The Legacy and Future of Jewish – Christian RelationsFifth Annual Lutheran Studies Conference at PLU – Thursday, September 24, 2015 The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the execution of German and other European Lutherans who resisted the National Socialist regime. Such an anniversary invites the university and larger community to consider a relationship marked by polemic, persecution, tolerance

2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: “Holocaust Distortion And Denial” Presented by Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr. Christopher Browning, experts in Holocaust studies. Oct. 27, 2021 | On-campus and Virtual Thanks to the generosity of donors this event is free and open to the public. The 2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education at PLU is proud to announce that this year’s conference will be the first collaboration with the world’s leading Holocaust center, Yad Vashem, in

acts including vicious pogroms. Yet, the worst to come occurred when Hitler decided to invade Poland in September 1939. As the Nazi war machine conquered Poland in less than one month, Jewish life was immediately put in peril. To be a Jew in Poland during WWII meant that an individual had a 1.5% chance of survival. Jews faced executions, roundups, ghettoization, and death camps. By the end of WWII, Polish Jewry counted approximately 3 million dead. By far, this is the largest Jewish victim group

The 2022 Wang Center Symposium has come to a close Thank you to all those who attended, as well as to everyone who helped make this event happen! Missed it?Watch a collection of recorded talks here:Presentation Playlist 10th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUMHealing: Pathways for Restoration and RenewalMarch 9-10, 2022Virtual Event, Free Admission, Open to the PublicThis event explores the concept of healing in the broadest sense as: “Healing is an intervention, an outcome, and a process, and at times, all

2023 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: “Africa and the Holocaust” Oct. 25-27, 2023 Thanks to the generosity of donors this event is free and open to the public. The 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 25th – Friday, Oct. 27th in the Anderson University Center, Regency Room. Our conference will explore “Africa and the Holocaust” as its theme. In this conference our speakers will be exploring the under-researched