Honest Storytelling: St. Olaf at 150

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The “Honest Storytelling: St. Olaf at 150” project grows out of St. Olaf’s Land Acknowledgment statement and responds to the call by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) statement to American Indian and Alaska Native people. The project commits to tell honest stories about the land and the Dakota people who lived here, and to tell other untold and under-told stories about the people and the place that have not yet had the wider hearing they deserve.

Upcoming and Past Events

PROJECT PROCESS

The Honest Storytelling: St. Olaf at 150 Project, funded by the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE),  is currently in its second phase of development, and in honor of the college’s sesquicentennial the authors of the project will be sharing their stories through public presentations throughout the year.  A schedule of those events will be coming soon. Read more about the book project in this St. Olaf news article.

Project Initiated

Spring 2024
Spring
Cohort
selected

Summer seminar

June 2024
Summer seminar of
Writers and Additional
Interested Participants
from Across the College

Year of writing and public presentations

’24 – ’25
Writers draft chapters and
offer public presentations
throughout the year
about their topics

Summer seminar 2

June 2025
Review of Penultimate
Draft with cohort

Heading toward publication

december 2025
Manuscript will be
sent to Publisher

Honest Storytelling News – Research by Book Chapter Authors

Lutheran Center Grants
Reframing the Institutional Saga

About St.Olaf at 150

 Learn more about St. Olaf’s 150th anniversary, history and more about the colleges untold & undertold stories that have created the Community we know and love toady

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