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2017 Wang Center Symposium. More A global Indigenous focus Mathilde Magga and Elle-Sina Sørensen (Sámi) answer questions at PLU’s 2018 Sámi álbmotbeaivi / Sámi National Day celebration. More Collaborative EngagementStudents in the NAIS Program don’t just learn about Indigenous peoples, they learn with and from them, entering a collaborative learning space in which Indigenous ways of knowing and the academic system meet. With a focus on local cultures, societies and language at the core of their

The French-American Foundation has announced that PLU Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin is one of the winners of the 2024 Translation Prize. Wilkin and her co-editor and translator Angela Hunter, an English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the nonfiction prize… continue reading Heven Ambachew ’24 combines her passions and experiences to design major in innovation studies June 4, 2024 Like many students, Heven Ambachew ’24 wasn’t yet sure of her major when embarking

Spring Series in Pastoral Theology:``Liturgy that Lives: Practicing the Art of Blessing in Late-Pandemic Worship``Crafting language for worship is more contextual and meaningful than ever. These pragmatic workshops honor what we tried and learned in worship since March 2020. We’ll consider the theological and cultural assumptions our liturgical traditions make and how they might adapt to meet our changing communities. What no longer seems essential? What new questions are we asking? What held

, think again!  Though anthropology does look at stones and bones, it also examines the politics, medicine, kinship, art, and religion of various peoples and times.  This makes the study of anthropology a complex task, for it requires an understanding of the basics from numerous disciplines such as geology, biology, art, and psychology. The four fields of anthropology are cultural anthropology, how people live in groups today, linguistics, the study of language, biological anthropology, the study of

Studies at the University of South Florida, delivers his keynote address titled “Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, at PLU. (PLU Photo / Emma Stafki).Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Research Professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, delivers her speech titled “German Genocide in Africa and the Third Reich: Imperialism, Race, and Sexual Violence” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller