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This year’s Bjug A. Harstad Memorial Lecture will be held on Monday, March 14, 2016 at 7 pm in PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center. The lecture, “The Role of National Identities in a Rapidly Changing World,” will be delivered by Dr. Hege C. Finholt, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Hege C. Finholt holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University and a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of
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Schedule for Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility Symposium All sessions will be held in the Anderson University Center, except the opening keynote, which will be held in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts. Register for the Wang Center SymposiumThursday, March 8Friday, March 9Thursday, March 88:15 - 9:20 a.m. | Keynote Speaker: Bob Ferguson, Washington State Attorney General Introduced by Dr. Roberto Dondisch, Mexican Consul
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Posted on September 27, 2017October 31, 2018 How we live our days is how we live our lives Scroll down to see more content Detail from the back porch of the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. Photo Credit: Amanda Clendenen. August 28th, 2017. ‘First Day of School’ like never before. Cross the street Héroes de Chapultepec, enter through the gate, up the path lined by palm trees, and ya, here we are. On the patio of the Cultural Institute of Oaxaca (ICO), our group of twelve nervous, but excited
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the struggles facing democracy and globalization. Each of the 10 chosen artists submitted several works: bold, colorful graphics; subtle ink drawings and photographs; and oil paintings, sculptures and mixed media. About The Exhibition What: 1814-2014: Red White and Blue–Norwegian Constitution, American Inspiration. When: Through Sept. 28. (SCC hours are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sundays.) Where: Scandinavian Cultural Center, on the lower level of the Anderson
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ES (4), offered Fall 2025 PHIL 248 – Innovation, Ethics, and Society (4), offered tbd Three courses covering a history of innovation, problem solving, and creativity in the global economy, emphasizing the ethical considerations that arise as a result of new products and initiatives, disruptive technologies, globalization, and cultural change. Students may take any 248 section. Each emphasizes clear writing and communication practices, teamwork, and building an ethical vocabulary for business and
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European, Mughal, Ottoman, and Russian; the development of the world economic system, especially comparing the West with China and Japan; and cultural globalization in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. (4) HIST 107 : Ancient Near East - IT, GE Surveys the history of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions, including ancient Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Persia, Greece, and Rome. Major themes include empire building, religion, law, art, and literature. Students learn to investigate historical
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course on non-Western history taught by a local Namibia historian Learn More & Apply Trinidad & Tobago: Heritage, Cultural Fusion and Sustainability in the Southern Caribbean Gain an in-depth understanding of Trinbagonian culture through a required set of three required courses taught by local professors, local experts and US professors Examine key issues such as post-colonialism, globalization, diversity, equity, social justice, gender and environmental sustainability in a rich, ethnically diverse
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buildup to the Beijing Olympics. Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (Harper Perennial, 2005) A fascinating read about globalization and the role of culture by looking at soccer as an expression of national identity, economic and political power in various communities around the world, especially South America and Europe. Richard Hoffer, Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (Free Press, 2009) Story of the
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January 23, 2014 A mock-up of one of the panels in the exhibit Us Local People: Sámi Vuoiŋŋa and Resilience. (Courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Center.) Scandinavian Cultural Center Exhibit Kicks Off Months-Long Human-Rights Inquiry at PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham, Content Editor Pacific Lutheran University’s renowned Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) will hold a free public reception celebrating the opening of an important exhibit that explores the history of the Sámi, the native people of
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top 10 percent have really pulled away from the rest of us.” And this pulling apart of the economic classes hasn’t been repeated in other developed countries, he noted. It’s an American phenomenon. Globalization and the rise of the economies in Southeast Asia hold some of the answer, he said. But not as much as you might think. Much of the change of socio-economic conditions can be traced to the money following those with the highest technical skills, Lindert said in a recent interview
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