Category: Event
Discussing the connection between personal and social transformation, David Loy, professor, writer and teacher of Japanese Sanbo Zen Buddhism, will present his lecture “Transforming Self, Transforming World: Buddhism and Social Justice” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 in Valders Hall of Science, Room 206 on the Luther campus.
In conjunction with the Oneota Film Festival, a screening of the documentary “Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution,” will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, at the Lingonberry, 218 Water Street, Decorah, Iowa.
Luther College is hosting a Music Scholarship Audition Day Saturday, Nov. 10. Activities for the day are geared toward high school seniors interested in attending Luther.
Registration deadline is Sunday, Nov. 4; online registration is available at https://tinyurl.com/musicauditionday.
Drawing connections between America’s favorite pastime and morality and culture, Luther College Professor Emeritus John Moeller will present a lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Mott Room of the Dahl Centennial Union on Luther’s campus.
Jimmy Hoke, visiting assistant professor of religion takes a look at Paul’s letters as he discusses queerness in the Roman world of the first century C.E. in his lecture at Luther College on Nov. 6.
The 10th annual Oneota Film Festival, co-sponsored by Luther College, is set for Thursday through Saturday, March 7-9, 2019, on the Luther campus and in downtown Decorah.
Luther College Associate Professor of Art Ben Moore presents his art show “Lie To Me” from Nov. 5 to Jan. 24 at the Wigley Fleming Art Gallery on the Luther campus. Moore’s current work explores the sublime. His goal is to depict a place so supernatural that it transports the viewer away from Earth while their feet never leave the ground.
Tensions across the country were high in 1968: Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4; U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated during a primary victory rally on June 5; Anti-Vietnam protests were in full swing; And a group of Luther College students paved the way for generations to come with the creation of the Black Student Union.
Society has taken a “dark turn” since the turn of the 21st century, embracing globalization of a fear of others, according to ethnomusicologist Peter Hoesing. Hoesing, Luther College class of 2003, will discuss this turn in “Multiculturalism and its Malcontents,” at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Symposium in the Humanities, part of Luther’s Homecoming weekend.
Luther College celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first graduates of the Luther nursing program during Homecoming, on Oct. 26 and 27, as well as the Ironside Distinguished Alumni Nursing Lecture, with a light lunch and open house to follow.