News and Events
- NEWS
RELS Course in the Spotlight: Fall 2025
A new class in the Religious Studies department takes the spotlight for the Fall 2025 semester.
- EVENTS
Past Events
Religious Studies: What Are You Going to Do with That?
Religious Studies Fall Gathering - September 30 from 5-7pm (dropping in and out is welcome!)A presentation and conversation with LC Religious Studies faculty and Andres Lopez, Director of Research for the Coalition of Communities of Color in Portland. Andres will discuss how studying lived religion has informed his applied research and data justice work. Andres’ talk will be followed by a Q&A with recent LC grads in Religious Studies and Joe Hewa, the director of LC’s new Career Accelerator. And then the fun stuff: stick around to enjoy pizza, sushi, and RELIGION TRIVIA with your peers and professors! Contact religion@lclark.edu with questions.
The (Endangered?) Promise of a Lewis & Clark Education: An Argument for the Liberal Arts in the 21st Century - Rob Kugler Retirement Lecture
Giving oneself over to the liberal arts completely. At our best, it’s what we do as Lewis & Clark’s faculty and students. The payoff from being our best—for us and for our students—is rich and enduring: a lifetime shaped by the ability to see, engage, and uplift our neighbors through multiple critically-examined frames of reference as we meet the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Yet the daunting headwinds American higher education faces tempt liberal arts colleges to compromise their commitment to the liberal arts tradition. Many are chasing after faddish programming and preprofessional tracks doomed to transience by a world changing faster than we can keep up. This talk argues for the necessity of Lewis & Clark holding fiercely to a bold, courageous embodiment of its unique, hard-won and winning identity as a college of the liberal arts.
It’s not just the college’s wellbeing that’s at stake in the perdurance of the liberal arts. It’s also the wellbeing of the world that the liberal arts tradition has served for centuries and can serve for centuries more.
The talk will be recorded and posted at a later date instead of streaming live.
