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  • American Physical Society Journals American Physical Society Journals: All Journals (Web Page)

  • American Perspective of ``Time``You may wonder why Americans are always looking to see what time it is. They look at their watches, and check the clocks on their phones and computers. “What time is it?” “Am I late?” “When’s the project due?” “How long do we have?” “How much time is left?” These questions are repeated over and over. Americans seem obsessed with being on time, with their schedules, deadlines and project-due dates. People view time as something that can be saved, spent, used

  • Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.

    primary groups that comprise the local Norwegian community — PLU at the center — already were deep in discussions about how to honor their heritage. “Tom wanted to have a peace prize that would be considered a gift to the city of Tacoma from the Norwegian-American community here,” said Janet Ruud ’70, president of the organization. And what a gift it has been. Laureates’ passion projects have included anti-nuclear advocacy, reconciliation, racial and social equity, treating underserved patients around

  • Heather Mathews Associate Professor in Art History Biography Biography Mathews will present The Past is Present: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary German Art. In Germany, art plays a major role in the public narrative of the Holocaust. Stories of victims, perpetrators, survivors, and their descendants that might otherwise have been forgotten or ignored are coaxed out of local histories by public artworks and monuments. The imagery of these artworks deals with the Holocaust on both

  • contemporary political issues involving Muslims and Islamophobia. (4) RELI 245 : Global Christian Theologies - RL, VW, GE Over the last 100 years, Christianity has been shrinking in its European (and Amer-European) historic strongholds and has been growing in Asia, Latin American, and Africa. This course examines writings by various writers who combine a Christian identity with their own cultural context and construct the theologies of the Christian future in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. (4) RELI 247

  • . Particular attention will be paid to Martin Luther’s controversial statements on the Jews, and later episodes of polemic, persecution, and tolerance that came in their wake. 11:00 a.m. – The Past is Present: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary German Art Dr. Heather Mathews, Associate Professor in Art History, PLU In Germany, art plays a major role in the public narrative of the Holocaust. Stories of victims, perpetrators, survivors, and their descendants that might otherwise have been forgotten or

  • American Institute of Physics Journals American Institute of Physic’s Journals: All Journals Journal of Chemical Physics

  • By:Genny Boots '18 January 9, 2018 0 Thomas Kim ’15 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/01/thomas-kim-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Genny Boots '18 Genny Boots '18 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/19bfb9cee2f834144d56bb2017bb5742?s=96&d=wp_user_avatar&r=g January 9, 2018 February 6, 2018 Thomas Kim ’15 “What makes an American an American?” This is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined

  • , blood, and kindred in American narrative. Fall 2020 marks her 25th year at PLU. She teaches several Holocaust-focused courses, including most recently a literature class on Anne Frank as a Holocaust icon, and a seminar on trauma, memory, and memorialization in contemporary American post-slavery and post-Holocaust narrative. Among her recent publications are an essay on the Jewish American Girl doll and a poem, “I did not lose my father at Auschwitz.” Ongoing projects include Finding Zlata Jampolski

  • University, where she completed a dissertation on race, blood, and kindred in American narrative. Fall 2020 marks her 25th year at PLU. She teaches several Holocaust-focused courses, including most recently a literature class on Anne Frank as a Holocaust icon, and a seminar on trauma, memory, and memorialization in contemporary American post-slavery and post-Holocaust narrative. Among her recent publications are an essay on the Jewish American Girl doll and a poem, “I did not lose my father at Auschwitz