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PLU student speaks to the camera.] PLU Student: declaramos nuestra solidaridad [video: A PLU student speaks to the camera.] PLU Student: we stand in solidarity [Music] [video: fade to black] Meet the Professors More Stories Visit About The PLU Hispanic & Latino Studies program combines the study of the Spanish language with courses in Latin American, Latino, and Iberian literatures, linguistics, and cultural studies. Whether you are a heritage or second language learner, you’ll engage in topics

launches the 2016 Powell-Heller Holocaust Conference on Women and the Holocaust. The Music of Remembrance program complements the conference theme with a program of works that open a window into the emotional lives of women trapped in the web of Holocaust tragedy. The featured work, Another Sunrise (2012), by contemporary American composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, paints a powerful portrait of survival through the true story of one woman, Krystyna Zywulska.  A resistance fighter

Volume 1 (2013) CP Hidden Treasures Volume 2 (2014) CP Treasures, Volume III: Colored Pencil Masterworks from Around the Globe (2014) And her work has been published in: Creating Textures in Colored Pencil by Gary Greene (chapter artist) Creative Colored Pencil, The American Society of Portrait Artists’ Signature Magazine (Summer, 1996) Best of Colored Pencil II, III and IV And so she did. She made her first sale to her kid brother, and this “set a course for her life,” she said. Within a year, she

illustrated the entire quote and the pair decided to sell 44 copies in honor of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. The piece sold out very quickly; the process was repeated with another quote, and the Dead Feminists letterpress poster series was born. Fast track to today, and in the year where the American presidential ballot featured its first female candidate for a major party, Spring and O’Leary have penned a book on feminist history, featuring the now-famous poster series, and so

, as well as Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan). By 1892, about 85 percent of all foundries in the United States had merged into American Type Founders (ATF). It is rare — especially in the U.S. — to see type cast at many of these foundries that were merged into ATF. Mark Barbour, International Printing Museum director and curator, conducted an appraisal before PLU acquired the collection. He described it as “one of the better 19th and early 20th century collections in the country, showcasing the graphic

the quote. Instead, O’Leary illustrated the entire quote and the pair decided to sell 44 copies in honor of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. The piece sold out very quickly; the process was repeated with another quote, and the Dead Feminists letterpress poster series was born. Fast track to today, and in the year where the American presidential ballot featured its first female candidate for a major party, Spring and O’Leary have penned a book on feminist history, featuring

Hegemony and Cultural Revitalization: Approaches to Resilience in Local Tribal Communities (Scandinavian Cultural Center) Dr. Charlotte Coté, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Department of American Indian Studies 7:30pm — Seeds of Freedom, Gardens of Hope (Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts) Dr. Vandana Shiva, Founder, Navdanya

recently been accepted for publication.  In December, we read a draft of a new essay by Prof. Adela Ramos that analyzed the invocation of the myth of Coatlicue as a means of imagining environmental renewal in Homero Aridjis’ novel La leyenda de los soles.  In February we returned from J-term to discuss a version of Prof. Jenny James’ article-in-progress entitled “Adjacent Pasts and Multidirectional Perspective in Susan Choi’s American Woman.” In March, we came together over lunch to discuss Prof. Nancy

have a hard time with. I really empathized with her story as a child of immigrants myself—the constant feeling of betrayal that comes with leaving behind your parents and your culture as you move into the realm of American teenage awkwardness and adulthood.” Our class devoted a month to studying and drawing literary inspiration from Daisy Hernández’s award-winning memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Beacon Press, 2014). Hernández spoke with our evening class until it was late at night in Ohio

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