The Office of the Provost each semester coordinates with the different academic areas to create a flier for all academic lectures being held. Please contact LeAnn Evey (x7129 or eveyld@plu.edu), if you have a lecture you would like added.
MBA Executive Leadership Series
Charles Witzieben
President
Supervalu International
November 23, 2009
6:00 - 7:00 pm - Morken 103
Perspectives in the Social Sciences Lecture
Karen Quek
Assistant Professor of Marriage & Family Therapy
Topic: TBA
December 11, 2009
3:00 - 3:50 pm - Xavier 201
Visiting Writers Series
Lucia Perillo
February 25, 2010
3:30 pm - Q&A and Conversation, Garfield Book Company
5:30 pm - Reading - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Lucia Perillo's fifth book of poems, Inseminating the Elephant, was just published by Copper Canyon Press, and her book of essays, I've Heard the Vultures Singing, is now out in paperback from Trinity University Press. A 2000 MacArthur Foundation fellow, her books have received many awards, including the Kingsley-Tuffs award for her last book Luck is Luck, which also was a finalist for the L.A. Times prize. Her work has appeared widely and has been reprinted in the Pushcart and Best American Poetry anthologies.
For more information, contact Professor Jason Skipper, skippeje@plu.edu or 253-535-7238.
36th Annual Schnackenberg Lecture
Martha Sandweiss
February 25, 2010
7:00 pm - Xavier 201
The History Department is pleased to announce that the 36th annual Schnackenberg lecturer will be Dr. Martha Sandweiss, Professor of History at Princeton University. For additional information about Dr. Sandweiss: http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=masand@princ
Visiting Writers Series
Ann Pancake
March 18, 2010
3:30 pm - Q&A and Conversation, Garfield Book Company
5:30 pm - Reading - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Ann Pancake's acclaimed debut novel Strange As This Weather Has Been is based on interviews and real events, focusing on a West Virginia town devastated by mountaintop removal mining. She is author of the short story collection Given Ground, which received the Katherine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize. Other awards include a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, and the Glasgow Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and New Stories from the South.
For more information, contact Professor Jason Skipper, skippeje@plu.edu or 253-535-7238.