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Contributors Claudia Berguson Claudia Berguson joined the faculty of PLU in 2003. She is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures. Her primary areas of teaching in Nordic studies are migration literature, folklore, gender and equality, and Norwegian language. She worked to establish the Peace Scholars program, serving as coordinator through its first five years. Students continue to inspire her in her work as a professor, academic advisor and faculty director of PLU’s Norway

Calendar Obituaries Kim Nesselquist Kim Nesselquist, Norwegian Consul, died December 7, 2018 in Seattle, after being diagnosed with renal cancer in March. He was born in Fredrikstad, Norway and grew up in Nesbyen, Norway. He traveled abroad to study at PLU in 1980, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He would later serve as university regent and as an advancement officer. At PLU he met Krystn Soltau, who would be his wife for 33 years. Upon graduation in 1983, they returned to

News Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar The Art of Diplomacy Featured / September 8, 2014 PLU Hosts Exclusive U.S. Premiere of Exhibition Inspired By the Norwegian Constitution’s 200th Anniversary By Sandy Deneau Dunham RESOLUTE Editor D uring the Napoleonic war in 1814—34 years before PLU founder Bjug Harstad was born— Denmark lost control over Norway, a territory it had held for more than 300 years. Quicker than a flash from the Northern

Norwegian Inspiration for Disney's FrozenDisney’s Frozen is a world-wide success, but did you know the film makers studied Norwegian history and culture extensively while working on the film? And did you know it is based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale? Come find out these tidbits and many more at the Scandinavian Cultural Center! A new exhibition opens on Sunday, January 11th, 2015 at 2pm with a screening of the film Frozen, a rosemaling demonstration by Julie Ann Hebert, and a discussion

Wednesday, Oct. 5 2016 Third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture to open “Beyond the Horizon: The Legacy of Nordic Explorers” exhibit 2016Distinguished Norwegian sailor, journalist and writer Ragnar Kvam Jr. will present “The Life of Thor Heyerdahl: Writing the Biography of a Norwegian Icon,” for the third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 5. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU.Kvam wrote a three-volume biography on Heyerdahl, which earned him the Riksmålsforbundet’s literary

inscription on Rune Stones. Invite people to perform/meet/wave flags at Red Square. Make sure Norwegian flag is flying in Red Square and looks good. Arrange gift to give H.M. Plan media coverage. Get space in the T-Dome for his entourage. Schedule a spa day for May 24. (OK. That last one wasn’t on the list—but it should have been.) (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The king's name and the date of his visit are added to one of the Rune Stones in Centennial Plaza. +Enlarge Photo FEB. 10 Timed to the start of

Course Title CHIN 301 Composition and Conversation - IT, GE CHIN 302 Composition and Conversation - IT, GE CHIN 371 Chinese Literature in Translation - IT, GE COMA 303 Gender and Communication - IT COMA 304 Intercultural Communication - IT, GE ENGL 213 Topics in Literature: Themes and Authors - IT ENGL 214 Introduction to Major Literary Genres - IT ENGL 216 Topics in Literature - IT, GE ENGL 217 Topics in Literature - IT, GE ENGL 232 Women's Literature - IT, GE ENGL 234 Environmental Literature

students in which president Harstad taught religion, Latin, German, and Norwegian. With Bjug Harstad’s death at the age of eighty-four on June 20, 1933, the original campus building, Old Main, was renamed Harstad Hall in honor of it’s founder.Ole N. Grønsberg, 1895-1897 Revered Ole N. Grønsberg was born on December 24, 1855 in San Francisco. A graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and having had trained at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, he was ordained in 1880 and was working as a

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in the lobby of Oslo’s renowned Grand Hotel on the city’s main street, she fondly recalled running into Chuck Nelson, the man responsible for attracting many Norwegian international students to Pacific Lutheran University. During their meeting in 1993, Nelson recited his pitch to Fodstad about the American institution of Lutheran higher education — founded by Norwegian immigrants — and she was sold. “A couple of months later I was enrolled and started my first class on a beautiful fall campus