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to include the Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture as part of Earth & Diversity Week! Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements and actions from the eighteenth century onward that illustrate how they have made and continue to maintain the surrounding marine waters as their own. 7pm Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Xavier 201Thurs 4/18All are invited to join Pride Door Decor Making with Tinglestad.  Celebrate diverse

while they said no students, you know, allowed. So things like this where a student can spend seven hours giving shots and learning about the logistics of how do you set up a vaccination clinic like this [video: Prof. Guerrero’s voice continues over a close up of a student drawing a dose of the Moderna vaccine from a vial to a syringe.] Prof. Guerrero: for my community students, I know that this has been really experiences that they’re not going to have in their lifetime again. Or at least I hope

to save themselves and their families. “’Russian’ Victims of Nazi Medicine – Moving from Lists to Biographies” – Nichola Farron This presentation will provide an overview of the use of Soviet prisoners in Nazi human experiments and coerced research, and will provide details of experiments in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps where ‘Russian’ prisoners were exposed to the ambition of German scientists engaged in unethical research practices. Drawing on the archival material, the details

Kishaba’s swim team schedule kept her from traveling to Montevideo, she conducted historical research and wrote the interview questions. Her presentation, “Situating the Stories: History of Jewish Migration in Uruguay,” explored the forces shaping the interviewees’ lives. Watching their video testimonies afterwards, Kishaba found their personal perspectives especially meaningful, drawing parallels with her own grandparents. Being part of a team suited Kishaba. “I learned to trust my own instincts,” she

of a female, Jewish Holocaust rescuer-survivor. Based upon extensive personal interviews, this paper explores the layers of deceptive and/or conflicted gendered and religious identities that Peperzak employed, embraced, or rejected during her rescue work. This talk contributes toward a more integrated and nuanced understanding of the complexity, and the costs, of Holocaust rescue while drawing attention to the agency of Jewish women in resistance to the Nazis’ genocidal ambitions. “Quaker Relief

different categories of ‘race’ will position us to explore various context-specific strategies for addressing the continuing, and very real, affects of this invented category.IHON 258: PovertyThis course is a social science based investigation into poverty, drawing primarily on the disciplines of sociology, economics, and history. Students will examine, interpret, compare and discuss quantitative measures of poverty, and both scholarly literature and popular press works by a variety of social scientists

recover from health crises. Critics of the concept have argued that, in its most common applications, resilience frameworks disproportionately locate responsibility for responding to crises in communities themselves, drawing attention away from structural causes of crises. Rather than resolve the ‘problem’ of whether the notion of resilience is good or bad for health equity, I draw on case studies of recent health crises to highlight the tensions that such critiques reveal about the blind spots of

Hispanic studies, and Riley Dolan ’19 Although Kishaba’s swim team schedule kept her from traveling to Montevideo, she conducted historical research and wrote the interview questions. Her presentation, “Situating the Stories: History of Jewish Migration in Uruguay,” explored the forces shaping the interviewees’ lives. Watching their video testimonies afterwards, Kishaba found their personal perspectives especially meaningful, drawing parallels with her own grandparents. Being part of a team suited

universities and colleges. Tiantian Zheng, Ph.D. SUNY Distinguished Professor, Anthropology State University of New York, Cortland Worthy vs Unworthy Victims of Sexual Violence in Postsocialist China Drawing on women’s lived experiences of sexual violence and sexual coercion in their lives, this paper uncovers the cultural system of power hierarchy that creates injustice and inequity. Women in my research who have experienced sexual coercion by their partners have chosen not to report it in court. In their

,” Gregson said. “As much as he hated the process of transcribing, he had a knack for drawing out his participants, making them feel comfortable, and eliciting heartfelt and sometimes painful stories.” Gregson stressed that Packard’s growth is indicative of the learning-by-doing model that’s key in student-faculty research opportunities at PLU. “I could tell stories all day long about challenges I’ve encountered while collecting data or the thrill of developing an analytical hunch, but until students