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thing, but I felt that having the opportunity to go to Germany with a German speaker was much better than someone who wasn’t fluent with the language,” she said of her trip last year. “And global relations, especially now, are just so important to understanding the rest of the world.” The curriculum for the PLU MBA program includes a 10-day international experience, which began in 2007 with a trip to France. Some of the other countries included in the itineraries since then have been China, Vietnam
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Testament was written by Jews. Why, then, aren’t Christians Jewish? This presentation will consider Judaism and Christianity in the first century C.E. and will explore some of the reasons that led to the parting of the ways between Jews and Christians. 10:00 a.m. – Jewish-Christian Relation in Sixteenth Century Germany Dr. Michael Halvorson, Associate Professor of History, PLU This presentation examines the complex relationship between European Christians and European Jews in Sixteenth Century Germany
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obscured nation-building agendas, and why opposition to asylum seekers from Central America today may not be so anomalous to our immigration history.Dr. Mae NgaiSpeaker: Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, whose research and teaching focuses on the histories of migration, citizenship, race and ethnicity. She is author of the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), and The Lucky
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Choir Competition and Festival in Linz, Austria. The Choir sang in churches and venues in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Prague and the Brucknerhaus in Linz. They sang in Martin Luther’s home church in Wittenberg, Germany, as well as the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where J.S. Bach worked for 37 years. “All these experiences were unforgettable, but the highlight of course was winning the Grand Prize at the Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival,” Choir of the West Conductor Richard Nance remarked. A
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true embodiment of this idea. At PLU, Xi Zhu is a teacher, with valuable knowledge and deep interest in Chinese pre-modern literature. But every day this past fall, after teaching his course at PLU, Zhu commuted north to the University of Washington to take a class for his PhD. While both teaching a class and taking a class, Zhu was also working on his dissertation. As a doctoral student, Zhu is studying a manuscript version of a pre-300 B.C.E. Chinese text known in English as the Classic of Odes
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Courtney Olsen Manager of Short-Term Programs She/Her Phone: 253-535-7628 Email: olsencd@plu.edu Office Location:Wang Center for Global Education Status:Working Hybrid Professional Education B.A., History, Pacific Lutheran University, 2018 B.A., Economics, Pacific Lutheran University, 2018 M.St., Modern British History, University of Oxford, 2020 Responsibilities Supports the Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program
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of becoming a writer, but quickly got the message that such ideas were impractical. I majored in biology, instead. A decade after college, inspired by the words of Angela Davis, Joan Didion, Eduardo Galeano, bell hooks, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Leo Tolstoy (among many others), I decided to give that writer-dream another try.” Wendy Call; photo by Kathy Colwell Nancy Simpson-Younger We are also excited to welcome Nancy Simpson- Younger to the PLU community as our new specialist in Early Modern
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Professor of Modern History at Pennsylvania State University, calls these oh-so-accessible goods “packaged pleasures”—and at PLU’s 2014 Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History on Oct. 13, he’ll present an illustrated talk that offers a fresh perspective on the origins of the modern American consumer culture and its impact on our lives. Touching on history, marketing and technology, Cross’ talk is titled “The Package and Its Pleasures: How American Business and Technology Shaped Consumer
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Connection through TranslationKiyomi Kishaba and Professor Rona Kaufman track Jewish Migration to UruguayWhy the Digital Humanities Lab Impacts UsProfessor Adela Ramos on the Collaborative, Technological Approach to Humanistic ProjectsThe Importance of Dead LanguagesProfessor Collin Brown on Dead Languages and the Modern Human ExperienceSharing Passion for ScholarshipThe Kelmer Roe Scholarship in the Humanities Supporting Student-Faculty Research
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Elizabeth Bankowski Digital Media Director She/Her Biography Biography Major: Studio Art Minor(s): Printing and Publishing Would you rather be able to time travel, teleport, or fly? “I would rather teleport so that I could travel anywhere I want to without a passport or worrying about missing a flight.” Favorite Font: Bernhard Modern Bold Italic
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