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  • The Powell-Heller Conference is provided free of charge; meals are not included. Continuing education credit for teachers are considered add-ons and available for a minimal fee.

    :30 p.m. Annual Raphael Lemkin Lecture and Awards Speaker: Dr. Susannah Heschel: “Personal Trajectories and Holocaust Studies” 9 p.m. ReceptionFriday, March 14Anderson University Center/Chris Knutzen Hall East 8 a.m. Registration Chris Knutzen Hall East, West, Regency Room, Union Pacific Room 8:30 a.m. High School Students and Educator Track Sessions Speakers: Washington State Holocaust Education and Resource staff PLU Holocaust and Genocide Studies faculty Local High School Educators Lagerquist

  • Julia Watts Belser, Professor of Jewish Studies and Disability Studies Core Faculty, Georgetown University 3:40 – 5:10 p.m. Regency Room, Anderson University Center Free and Open to the Public

    Wild Kinship: Disability Wisdom, Interdependence, and the Elemental World Julia Watts Belser, Professor of Jewish Studies and Disability Studies Core Faculty, Georgetown University 3:40 – 5:10 p.m. Regency Room, Anderson University Center Free and Open to the Public As part of the 11th Wang Symposium, “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being,” PLU’s Department of Religion is happy to invite you to the 2024 Paul O. Ingram lecture. Wang Center Symposium: The

  • Innovation Studies is a great addition to your major coursework because: Courses in the Innovation Studies minor teach fundamental skills like design thinking, collaboration, and entrepreneurial mindset. Each course emphasizes critical thinking and the skills that organizations most want from graduates. The program prepares you…

    Have you considered an Innovation Studies minor? Design Thinking Meets Social Impact Posted by: jtsuneoka / September 16, 2024 September 16, 2024 Innovation Studies is a great addition to your major coursework because: Courses in the Innovation Studies minor teach fundamental skills like design thinking, collaboration, and entrepreneurial mindset. Each course emphasizes critical thinking and the skills that organizations most want from graduates. The program prepares you to tell a unique story

  • PLU’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of…

    New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna Posted by: Kate Williams / March 14, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Mackenzie Cooper '19PLU’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of the University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, as well as teaching History of Jazz

  • The 2018 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, in its 11th year at Pacific Lutheran University, was dedicated to exploring the role of medical science and the Holocaust.

    that children are still heavily targeted and harmed throughout the world as a result of war, human trafficking, unaddressed poverty and other injustices.”Learn more about the Children's Voices, The Holocaust and Beyond conferenceSee video from the Eighth Annual Conference 2014 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe Seventh Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: The conference highlighted the newly-approved Holocaust/Genocide Minor at PLU, Washington State Holocaust

  • We are pleased to announce that Anna Marko and Austin Karr have been selected as 2023's Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars.

    fellowship will be granted; 4. Enrollment at PLU for at least 12 credit hours in the fall semester following the summer in which the fellowship will be granted. What will successful applicants do? 1. Recipients of the Mayer Student Research Fellowship will produce an original, research-based paper on some aspect of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2. Papers must be at least 20 pages in length, excluding notes, bibliographies, and appendices, and completed by September 30 of the year in which the

  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    and Trauma Studies Selected Presentations XXX Congress of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS), Creating an Archive: Women as Holocaust Survivors in Uruguay, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (November 17-19, 2021) LASA Congress 2021, Refugees and Uruguayan Documentary Filmmaking: Other Upcoming Memories (May 26-29, 2021) XXXVI Internacional Congress of Literature and Hispanic Studies (CILH, Special Virtual Edition), “Quarantine Behaviors” or the Limits of Theater (June 17-19

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    ('08)Laura graduated with majors in German and History. She is completing her Ph.D. in History under the direction of Christopher Browning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She taught the Holocaust history class at PLU in the fall of 2014. In my senior year at PLU, I attended the inaugural Powell-Heller Conference in Holocaust Education in 2008. Even in the program’s infancy, the mark PLU’s commitment to Holocaust and Genocide Studies left on me was indelible. I was impressed by

  • Ian is serving a 2nd year with Teach For America at Little Wound High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

    ('08)Laura graduated with majors in German and History. She is completing her Ph.D. in History under the direction of Christopher Browning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She taught the Holocaust history class at PLU in the fall of 2014. In my senior year at PLU, I attended the inaugural Powell-Heller Conference in Holocaust Education in 2008. Even in the program’s infancy, the mark PLU’s commitment to Holocaust and Genocide Studies left on me was indelible. I was impressed by