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Brief History of Lucia Fest at PLUIn December 1950, Rev. E. Arthur Larson, professor of Swedish, introduced the Lucia custom to the PLU campus. At 5:30 on a cold, December morning, a group of female Swedish language students were honored with a visit from Sankta Lucia. The white-robed saint, wearing a crown of candles and a red satin sash, knocked at the doors of Harstad Hall. In her hands were a plate of cookies and a pot of fresh-brewed coffee. The saint’s real name was Lola (Murk) Gracey ’54
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PLU Jazz Day in Seattle May 3 Jazz music is a dish best served live and in person. A fusion of African-American, European-American and international musical traditions, jazz is known for its energy, creativity and ingenuity. Its iconic founding fathers and mothers are revered as some of the greatest improvisational artists in… April 27, 2015 MusicTouringUniversity Jazz Ensemble
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2019-20 Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture``Imagining the North``Dr. Rikke Platz Cortsen will provide an overview of the trends in contemporary Nordic comics and harkens back throughout the history of the medium in this part of the world looking at the aesthetic qualities and social themes currently shaping the field of Nordic comics.Dr. Rikke Platz Cortsen is Danish lecturer at University of Texas, AustinOctober 15, 2019, 7:00 PMUC- Scandinavian Cultural Center Bjug Harstad Memorial FundDonateDr
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December 1, 2009 Freedoms “When I’m in a press conference at the U.N., I feel like the world is literally at my fingertips. I find it is impossible to be apathetic when I have the awesome opportunity to be a first witness to history.”While at PLU, Jennifer Henrichsen ’07 studied away four separate times. To say that was influential would be an understatement – the experiences changed her life. She traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked as a freelance journalist at the United Nations
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history and memorialization of the former “Kibbutz Grochow” in Warsaw Grochow, today a neighborhood in Warsaw, was the place of the essential Zionistic training farm of the HeChalutz movement. In my presentation, I will introduce the Kibbutz Grochow project, run by the Anski Association in Warsaw, commemorating the former kibbutz. Cieśla will present the history of Grochow and address how to commemorate such sites. Convener: Beth Griech-Polelle, Associate Professor of Holocaust History and Kurt Mayer
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University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., went to Germany as one of Pacific Lutheran University’s 100 Fulbright Scholars and then earned her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. “PLU is the place where I first learned how think as a historian,” she said. “And more broadly, my professors there taught me how to become not only a better scholar but also a more thoughtful and engaged human being.” Loberg, whose area of expertise is modern European history, centered her article on the perspectives and
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Contest (ICPC) $1,168 to support conference attendance for the regional American Choral Directors Association $1,900 for music rights and student musicians for Night of Musical Theatre $1,900 to support a student’s participation in an international summer intensive theatre experience $3,242.25 for guest speaker and catering for Chicano History Month event $8,481.75 for food trucks and inflatable activities for Lute Fest all campus spring event $1,787.10 to support student participation at the
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humanities International modernisms and avant-gardes Theories and representations of labor Literary and critical theory Books History, Empire, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Ed. Asher Ghaffar Chapters "Aesthetic Re-Imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Esrtidentismo’s Anti-Imperialist Avant- Garde" (Routledge 2018) Selected Articles "No Useless Labor: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and the Importance of Intellectual Work." Textual Practice Vol. 33, no. 6, 2019: "Estridentistas de Estado: la
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September 1, 2009 Digging into history When Bradford Andrews looks at an obsidian core in his hand, he doesn’t see its indigo beauty, as it sparks back against the spotlight. The palm-sized flake gives PLU’s assistant visiting professor of anthropology a window into the everyday life of a complex society that called the mountains just east of Mexico City home in the 16th century. Obsidian flakes and tools, how they were found, how they were made, where they were made and in what quantity opens
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“Opening Crazy Worlds”: Learning about Language with Professor René Carrasco Posted by: hoskinsk / May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 By Hannah Stringer '22English MajorDr. René Carrasco is the new Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, who began at PLU in Fall of 2019.Originally from Mexico City, René came to the United States when he was 15. After he graduated high school, he went on to community college and studied history and literature. From there, he went to the University of California and
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