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, Assistant Professor of Psychology Click here to view the slideshow from November 4th’s class. November 11 Going Viral: Ethics in the Use of Social Media During the Pandemic Dr. Michael Artime, Assistant Professor and Chair of Political Science View presentation slides here.November 18 Anne Frank Trending: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Holocaust Analogy Dr. Lisa Marcus, Professor of English and Chair, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Click here to view the slideshow from November 18th’s class.December 2
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, and to see meaning-making as a social activity, something negotiated. This is true whether we are working in the classroom or the community center, in print or online.My field, English and Writing Studies, shows us how to read deeply and to understand the world. More specifically, it helps us see, value, and interpret the enormous scope and scale of life and experience. When we see ourselves reflected in a children’s book or when we are seen through our virtual identities, we are situated within a
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U.S. sport. This presentation will focus on the firsthand experiences of two recent graduates, Jackal Tenelorn and Alyson Theiman, who had the privilege of conveying the spirit of these two sports in South America. Tanelorn, while teaching English in Chile, with a generous donation from a 1950’s women’s softball team, introduced the great American pastime to a small rural school. Theiman was invited to coach and compete in the Ultimate community of urban Colombia as part of an elite Seattle team
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whoever would listen. I enrolled in two more Women’s and Gender Studies courses and began to volunteer at the Women’s Center on campus, trying to satiate my growing curiosity. Finally realizing my hunger for the subject could not be tamed easily, I declared my major in Women’s and Gender Studies. The flexibility of the program has allowed me to incorporate MAGS courses into the programs for both my English major and Sociology minor. Furthermore, the wide variety of MAGS classes available has allowed
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Mayer Kurt Mayer Summer Research Fellows: Jessica Alley, Abigail Kunkel, Christian Riddall, Alicia Sprague Moderator: Lisa Marcus, Professor of English, PLU 1:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. – (Chris Knutzen Hall, AUC 214)“Routine Pharmacological Procedures Against Women in Auschwitz: An Unspoken Narrative” – Peggy Kleinplatz The history of routine pharmacological interventions affecting women’s fertility during the Shoah and thereafter has been hidden in plain sight. It is past time to assemble the fragments
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jewels. Esther’s poisoning and hysteria diagnosis and Edward’s cognizant abuse of the trope of the “hysterical woman” to silence her speaks to the centuries’ long tradition of devaluing female experience or perspective by dehumanizing them, and labeling them “hysterical,” or “crazy.” As detailed by the Oxford English Dictionary, while the original definition of “hysteria” from the 18th century pertained to a “physical disorder of women” stemming from the uterus, the cultural and “medical
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concept that at the time was unheard of. “What we take for granted as public education, which is supported through taxes, is a Luther invention,” he said. But Torvend argues perhaps the most important Lutheran innovation in education was allowing every subject to exist independently. “That meant that professors in religion could not tell professors in geology or biology how to go about the study of their discipline; it meant that professors in psychology could not tell professors in English how to go
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, teaching life skills and empowering young people. She also taught English classes privately out of her home. “I had a strong desire to serve my country and people,” she said. “Through our educational work, I learned that I needed to know more about family dynamics in order to be more effective serving this population. … I came to a conclusion that marriage and family therapy could provide me with skills and expertise needed.” After two years of research, Sabet-Kazilas applied to roughly 20 programs in
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. Krise, Ph.D., PLU president and English professor The son and grandson of Army medical service officers, he was born at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, and spent his early childhood in Washington, D.C., and on military posts across the U.S. and in Germany. He lived aboard a sailboat for the better part of two years and then attended high school on the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where he was a deckhand, a dive master and an Eagle Scout. He is married to Patricia Love Krise, a
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could not tell professors in English how to go about their discipline,” Torvend said. “There is to be freedom to follow the methods of every discipline in their own way.” That means scholars, including those at PLU, are allowed to pursue ideas that challenge or upset both peers and superiors. It promotes the free exchange of ideas, free from censorship. It means no idea is above scrutiny — or beneath consideration. That philosophy resonates with PLU’s continued mission of thoughtful inquiry, asking
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