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Heller speaks before the keynote address titled “Wartime North Africa” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, at PLU. (PLU Photo / Emma Stafki).Convener Dr. Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, introduces Sarah Abrevaya Stein before her the keynote address titled “Wartime North Africa” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Thursday, Oct. 26
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commitment is personal and unwavering. Continuing her father’s belief that “we must use the lessons from the past to educate and influence people into the future,” Nancy’s committee of the Powell Family Foundation supports numerous educational programs in the U.S. and around the world including the Friends of the Forum School of Dialogue in Poland. Their purpose: “To promote dialogue between Poles and Jews by teaching children the history of their towns and showing them how to educate their neighbors
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captivation of the whim in classic fairytales. She knew little of Rachel Carson before encountering the play, but found her story compelling, universal, and an invaluable piece of history. The play follows Rachel Carson during the research and writing of her book Silent Spring, which is credited with launching America’s environmental movement. As she struggles to complete her book, she fights her progressing cancer and factions of American enterprise that launch a crusade against her reputation. Carson’s
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Association Ostwald Award. A choral work If We Sell You Our Land based on the famous speech by Chief Seattle was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show in 1987 and his subsequent opera Songs from the Cedar House based on the history and legends of Indian and White cultural interaction in the Pacific Northwest premiered in February of 1991 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His other compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and
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New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19PLU’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of the University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, as well as teaching History of Jazz
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If We Sell You Our Land based on the famous speech by Chief Seattle was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show in 1987 and his subsequent opera Songs from the Cedar House based on the history and legends of Indian and White cultural interaction in the Pacific Northwest premiered in February of 1991 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His other compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, and a one-act opera
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