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” in a panel moderated by University Pastor Jen Rude on Thursday, March 5 at 3:45 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. What is Lutheran Community Services Northwest and can you share a bit about your program, in particular? Lutheran Community Services Northwest is a regional organization that serves vulnerable children, families, refugees and others throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. My program, in particular, is working on refugee resettlement. We help refugees secure housing and work with
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listening experience are proud to have sustained a professional-level summer jazz concert series for twenty years. It is a testament to PLU’s commitment to America’s unique cultural treasure, the wealth of jazz artists in the Northwest, and discerning tastes of the JUTS audience. Here’s to our third decade! The JUTS People That Have Made It Happen through the years:Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Jazz Studies, 2018-present David Deacon-Joyner, Professor of Music, Director of
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idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as a public health educator.She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. Initial communication from the Peace Corps was that volunteers could choose to stay or return home and exit the program. Chell welcomed the news
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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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Cumulative Competencies for the Anthropology Minor Level I: Anthropology 100 Level CoursesBy the end of their first year, minors should have taken 2 Anthropology 100 level courses and: know and use anthropological concepts know the major perspectives of anthropology (linguistic, cultural, archaeological, biological) and be familiar with the general orientation of the two of these perspectives appreciate and be aware of the diversity of humans in space and time understand the effects of social
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Conference registration includes dinner at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25 and lunch at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26 in PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center in the Anderson University Center. For those staying at the Lakewood Best Western Motor Inn, a continental breakfast will be served in the Inn on Saturday morning before the conference begins at 8:45 a.m. Complimentary coffee and tea will be available in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU on Saturday morning, and additional beverages
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General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations at PLU. In addition to years of education and experience as a diplomat, before taking the San Francisco post in 2005, Schuette spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley. Some of his experience also includes work in Israel. “The Holocaust is still the
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June 1, 2012 President Thomas Krise is greeted by well wishers at an informal reception in the Scandinavian Center to mark his first day on the job. (Photo by John Froschauer) President Thomas Krise welcomed to PLU By Barbara Clements Over 200 faculty, staff and students enthusiastically greeted President Thomas Krise and Patricia Krise on Friday, June 1, at a reception in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. It was the first time that the campus community had seen Pacific Lutheran University’s
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In the following text, Dr. Carmiña Palerm, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the International Honors Program, considers how a Humanistic approach can inform the design and implementation of a study-away course. In this particular case study, Dr. Palerm describes a class titled “American Genesis: Indigenous Texts and their Resonance” that she offered as part of the Wang Center’s Gateway Semester Program in Oaxaca, Mexico in Fall of 2012.I had two goals in designing this
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, losing loved ones, being abducted and raped in war, among others. Her triumph over enormous hardships blazed the trail for her contemporary followers through the similarly challenging terrain. The opera depicts the drastic cultural and religious conflicts between Confucian Han and nomadic XiongNu, two neighboring states constantly at war during Cai Yan’s lifetime. It foregrounds the cost of war for both men and women. With increased chance of encounters among cultures, the relevance of Cai Yan’s tale
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