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  • KPLU invites listeners to travel to Victoria, B.C. KPLU – NPR News and All that Jazz, has put together an exciting listener trip to Victoria, B.C. to celebrate the 28th TD Victoria International Jazz Fest. A group of listeners will enjoy the first weekend of…

    . on Saturday, June 23. Opening night KPLU listener party – Friday, June 22 at the Hotel grand Pacific with light hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and live music. Passes to the Royal British Columbia Museum. Price for two people is $925; price for single traveler is $640. Listeners can book their reservations online at www.kplu.org now. Space is limited and deadline for booking is May 20. Read Previous Visiting Writer Series: Melinda Moustakis Read Next A look at ‘Sidetracked’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments

  • Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust…

    topic of guilt and innocence in Holocaust literature, with a focus on Daniel Silva’s trio of Julia Walsh ’14 talks at PLU’s 9-11 ceremony. (John Froschauer, Photographer) Holocaust-related spy novels and on Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance. Out of my books and thoughts rose a paper on issues of guilt in Holocaust literature, finding patterns in chronology between the first and second wave of Holocaust literature. In the first mode, the antagonist and perpetrator is not specifically an individual

  • TACOMA, Wash. (July 23, 2015)—During the Aug. 2-12 Rainier Writing Workshop, more than 100 students and faculty will gather at PLU to participate in classes, workshops, readings and other creatively immersive activities. The 10-day workshop, the annual summer residency of Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of…

    Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press) and three collections of short nonfiction—In Short, In Brief and Short Takes—and the anthology Brief Encounter.  Her awards included an NEA fellowship in poetry, two Pushcart Prizes in nonfiction and recognition as a distinguished teacher of adults.  She had the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7:15 p.m. Bernard Cooper, The Judith Kitchen Visiting Writer. Cooper has written two collections of memoirs

  • Diverse music, dance styles mark Dance 2008 A vibrant and dynamic series of performances marked PLU’s Dance 2008 in Eastvold Auditorium. The night’s program featured students, alumna and faculty choreographers, and a guest choreographer. The Dance Ensemble performed a collection of dances in the style…

    April 4, 2008 Diverse music, dance styles mark Dance 2008 A vibrant and dynamic series of performances marked PLU’s Dance 2008 in Eastvold Auditorium. The night’s program featured students, alumna and faculty choreographers, and a guest choreographer. The Dance Ensemble performed a collection of dances in the style of jazz, modern, ballet and hip hop. Directed by Maureen McGill, associate professor of dance and theater, the performance marked her 30th academic year at PLU. She presented “Bird

  • Starkovich named provost By Greg Brewis Steven P. Starkovich has been named provost and dean of graduate studies through the 2011-12 academic year. Provost Steven P. Starkovich He had been serving as acting provost this year during the sabbatical leave of Patricia O’Connell Killen. She…

    he was finishing his Ph.D. from the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He has been teaching continuously ever since. In 1997 he was hired into a tenure-track position, and since 2001 has been associate professor of physics. He has served the university as a department chair and has extensive experience on the Faculty Affairs Committee and Budget Advisory Committee. Starkovich’s professional academic expertise is in general relativity and cosmology. As an undergraduate he studied

  • Melodramatic, selfish, pouty Mary Musgrove is the only Persuasion (2022) character who says anything meaningful about Regency womanhood that is congruous with gender expectations today. Her lines in Carrie Cracknell’s adaptation are like Reductress captions, with just a little less of the same satirical punch.…

    women since it meant they were innocent and subordinate, she instead uses this quality against prescribed gender roles. The choice to cast Mary McKenna-Bruce intentionally aligns the character with an actress who, until recently, was a child star in the popular British children’s show Tracy Beaker Returns (2010-2012) and its spinoff The Dumping Ground (2013-). Don’t be fooled into thinking Disney Channel would air these alongside Raven’s Home (2017-) and reruns of Hannah Montana (2006-2011

  • The Oregon Center for Electrochemistry’s masters-level internship program attracts chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering students and provide nationally unique training including rigorous foundational electrochemical theory, team- and inquiry-based laboratory work, numerical simulation and engineering of electrochemical systems, and experience tackling industry-sponsored, team research projects. Concepts…

    challenges facing engineered electrochemical systems using rigorous experiments, efficient data analytics, and computer models, while optimally working in team environments. Such graduates provide substantial value to industry as employees compared to the existing candidates who generally have little or incomplete training in electrochemical science and are often not adept at using modern experimental design, data analytics and computation tools. Graduating seniors are encouraged to apply. The program is

  • What will the world look like when China is calling the shots? By Barbara Clements Even by the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2027 and will climb to the position of world economic leader by…

    the country, Jacques concludes in his book. “It’s not that China hasn’t learned a hell of a lot from the West. It has,” Jacques said. ” But it will not be like the West.” “He talks about how the Chinese have their own sense of superiority, just as the U.S. has its own sense that we’re God’s people, and the British before us,”  said Youtz, who also organized Jacques’ lectures in the Seattle area. And how might exactly will that play out? That’s uncertain, Youtz noted. Generally, China has been more

  • The conventional wisdom around the most recent cinematic take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2022) hardened almost immediately. Too Fleabag- y, too Bridgerton -y, and not Austen-y or Persuasion -y enough to tempt me was the consensus. I focus here mainly on U.S. based publications and…

    (Not) Persuadable: The Discourse About Persuasion Posted by: ramosam / August 29, 2022 August 29, 2022 By Katherine Voyles The conventional wisdom around the most recent cinematic take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2022) hardened almost immediately. Too Fleabag-y, too Bridgerton-y, and not Austen-y or Persuasion-y enough to tempt me was the consensus. I focus here mainly on U.S. based publications and reactions, but British GQ sums up takes from Britain’s papers. It’s worth slowing down to

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April. 19, 2016)- “Güeros,“ an award-winning drama set in Mexico City, will screen at Pacific Lutheran University on April 27 at 6 p.m. in room 101 of the Administration Building. The screening was organized by Christian Gerzso, PLU visiting assistant professor of English. He…

    with Ruizpalacios as kids in Mexico City? Alonso and I met through a mutual friend when we were 14 years old, and from the beginning, we became very close. Alonso went to a British school in Mexico City, and my dad is American, so we had a very heavy dose of British and American pop culture: our friendship revolved around watching “Monty Python,” Woody Allen films and NBA basketball, among many other things, and we always enjoyed arguing over sports and music bands. As a teenager did he hope to