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) Altmann, paused. “Times changed,” said the retired businessman as he recounted his family’s history and his mother’s fight to return the paintings to the family. Once the Nazis invaded, Peter Altmann said, and the Reich simply took the paintings. The concern for the Bloch-Bauers and for newlywed Maria, and her husband Fritz Altmann, was simply to escape the country alive. Maria Altmann kept the stocking she tore as she climbed over the barbed wire into Holland through the assistance of the
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worthwhile aspects of our work, innovating new ways to achieve our mission: educating students to engage—creatively, critically, and empathetically—with what it means to be human across the sweep of history, in diverse cultures and environments.Associate Professor of Religion Erik Hammerstrom re-imagined a concluding assignment for his course on the Religions of China to re-create a debate from the throne room of Emperor Wuzong in the year 841. The debate concerned how to balance Daoist, Buddhist, and
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Ibsen and PlaceProfessor Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp explored way that film adaptation of Ibsen’s plays shed light on his treatment of place – including interiority and exteriority – and on what sorts of transformation are involved in adapting theater to film. Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp, Professor of Scandinavian Literature University of Tromsø – Arctic University of Norway April 2, 2019, 7:00 PM Xavier Hall, Room 201 Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp has written extensively about Norwegian playwright and poet
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Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial to stopping them in the future.PLU was the first university in the Pacific Northwest to offer a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies, beginning in 2014. It also hosts the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. For many PLU students, exploration and
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happen to have been two of my closest PLU friends. My friendship with Doug and Alan began when we were randomly assigned to the old, wooden one-story Evergreen dormitory on lower campus. We felt lucky, priding ourselves on the cohesiveness within this dorm and our dorm’s accomplishments on campus—from dramatic transformations of our H-shaped building for homecoming weekend to success in intramural athletics and influence in campus politics. During those four years I hung out in Doug’s room almost
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musical medium you’re interested in? I’ve always loved film scores. My favorite composer of all time is John Williams. I really do like the idea of film scoring, and I’ve taught a couple of classes on the history of the subject. This project was unique in that I wrote the music before the film ever came to be. It was a reverse process, but just because I made it that way. Dr. Gina Gillie is a Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn, composition, aural skills, music
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together in the same office. Sometimes it can be a difficult adjustment, that’s really the main way I think interns are being impacted.”Study Political Science at PLU The student of politics seeks to understand how governments are organized and structured, how political processes are employed, and the relationship of structures and processes to societal purposes. “I’m very thankful for this opportunity with the Tacoma Housing Authority, and all of my managers who have helped me, especially during the
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Summer 2021 Benson Research Fellows Announced Three student-faculty research teams investigate business and economic history Posted by: halvormj / May 2, 2021 Image: Bees work the blooms behind KHP at PLU, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) May 2, 2021 By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies
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and politics in American history. He also teaches courses about gender in American religions and about religion and violence for PLU’s interdisciplinary programs (Women’s and Gender Studies, International Honors Program, and the First-Year Experience Program). His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is
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, and engage topics that include, but are not limited to, social justice struggles present and past, migration, race, gender, sexuality, memory, trauma, and the politics of language. Capstone Presentations, 2017: Collin Yadon, Kate Hall, Elmer Coria Islas, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain The Latino Studies minor engages many of the same topics, but with a special focus on the experiences of Latino/a/x communities in the United States and its transnational and cultural borderlands. Elective courses offer
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