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  • This year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII.

    Holocaust Studies Newsletter - Spring 2014March 12-14 Seventh Annual Powell-Heller Conference: Survivors and RescuersThis year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII. Pierre Sauvage, a child survivor and child of survivors, will present works based on his feature documentary, Weapons of the Spirit, which begins the program on March 12. Members of the Brill family, survivors of Exodus 1947 will discuss the ship

  • This year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII.

    Holocaust Studies Newsletter - Spring 2014March 12-14 Seventh Annual Powell-Heller Conference: Survivors and RescuersThis year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII. Pierre Sauvage, a child survivor and child of survivors, will present works based on his feature documentary, Weapons of the Spirit, which begins the program on March 12. Members of the Brill family, survivors of Exodus 1947 will discuss the ship

  • This year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII.

    Holocaust Studies Newsletter - Spring 2014March 12-14 Seventh Annual Powell-Heller Conference: Survivors and RescuersThis year’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will emphasize stories of survivors and the role of rescuers during WWII. Pierre Sauvage, a child survivor and child of survivors, will present works based on his feature documentary, Weapons of the Spirit, which begins the program on March 12. Members of the Brill family, survivors of Exodus 1947 will discuss the ship

  • PLU is home to an academic minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an endowed chair in Holocaust history, an annual conference on Holocaust education, summer research fellowships for students

    Uncomfortable Truths: Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies class examines the past to change the future More Asking Historic Questions: Beth Griech-Polelle, PLU Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies More Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs at PLUThe Holocaust, other genocides, and mass crimes against humanity are phenomena that command serious study and civic engagement. PLU is home to an academic minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an endowed chair in Holocaust history, an

    Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs
    Xavier Hall/115 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • The 14th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will occur on October 26-28, 2022 at Pacific Lutheran University. This year the conference theme is “Jewish Life in Poland: Before, During and After the Holocaust.” The keynote speaker is professor of history Jan Grabowski from the…

    Holocaust Studies, said. “To be Jewish in Poland, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, meant experiencing both the highs of cultural life and the absolute low of persecution and discrimination, culminating in the world’s most notorious genocide, the Holocaust.” The conference will attempt to cover what Jewish life was like throughout pre-WWII, during the war, and the postwar developments. Attendees will enjoy Klezmer music by the band Kesselgarden. Kesselgarden is a traditional band playing Eastern

  • Save the Date: 12th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education October 23-25, 2019 “First, Do No Harm: Medical Science, Ethics and the Holocaust”October 24- 26, 2018 The 2018 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, in its 11th year at Pacific Lutheran University, will be dedicated to exploring the role of medical science and the Holocaust. In the last decades, historical research on Nazi Germany has focused on sites of terror- especially concentration camps and

    Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference
    12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • The Holocaust and Genocide Studies program is strongly grounded in PLU’s forty-year dedication to Holocaust Studies and the University’s educational commitment to helping its students develop as

    The Holocaust and Genocide Studies MinorThe Holocaust and Genocide Studies program is strongly grounded in PLU’s forty-year dedication to Holocaust Studies and the University’s educational commitment to helping its students develop as global citizens, future leaders, and whole, richly informed persons. As the University’s statement on General Education notes, PLU offers an education not only in values, but in valuing, and asserts strongly that “life gains meaning when dedicated to a good larger

  • 1. Students will locate the Holocaust and other genocides in their historical and cultural contexts. 2.

    Holocaust and Genocide Studies Learning Outcomes 1. Students will locate the Holocaust and other genocides in their historical and cultural contexts. 2. Students will identify and critically reflect on moral, spiritual, and ethical issues that are central to learning about, and from, the Holocaust and other genocides,  including dehumanization, complicity, and resistance. 3. Through engaging with and analyzing written texts, images, monuments, and other cultural and artistic phenomena students

  • 20 Semester Hours, Including: GSRS 201 (4 semester hours, offered every semester) GSRS 301 (4 semester hours, offered every fall) 12 additional semester hours must be selected from GSRS courses or

    -level. Courses that are not on the approved list, from any discipline, for which at least 60% of the assignments center on women, feminism, gender, and/or sexuality may also count for the Gender & Sexuality Studies minor. This allows the integration of Gender & Sexuality Studies perspectives into courses that are not explicitly or entirely structured around those perspectives. Students should consult the GSRS chair about this option before the course begins (when possible) and provide syllabi and

  • By Sarah Cornell-Maier. PLU has a new Innovation Studies program. In fact, I’m a new Innovation minor–one of the first in a growing cohort, scheduled to graduate in May 2019. This series of blog posts is designed to give you the details on the minor,…

    Enhancing Your Major with Innovation Studies Posted by: halvormj / November 8, 2017 Image: EEG brain caps in PLU’s Psychology department, used to measure brain activity. Photo, John Froschauer). November 8, 2017 By Sarah Cornell-Maier. PLU has a new Innovation Studies program. In fact, I’m a new Innovation minor–one of the first in a growing cohort, scheduled to graduate in May 2019. This series of blog posts is designed to give you the details on the minor, which PLU faculty and regents