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, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its ninth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

, community members, and visitors from around the globe.” Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is now in its sixteenth year, and Nancy Powell continues to work closely with others to plan and host each year’s events. As she puts it, “Let’s continue the momentum by keeping in touch, staying connected, and remembering those whose lives were lost in the past and striving to impact the lives of those shaping our future.”

From Quills to Laptops: Transcribing Early Modern ManuscriptsHow do the material conditions of reading and writing impact the meaning of a text—and how do modern technologies revise or reinflect these meanings? In Fall 2015, students in ENGL 311 The Book in Society investigated these questions through two overlapping hands-on activities. First, after reading about early modern italic handwriting, they used quill pens and ink (ordered from a store in Colonial Williamsburg with a PLU Innovative

and preserved, the second part of the course dealt with the impact of the native tradition in the Americas starting in the late 1920s, in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. The course concluded with considerations of modern and contemporary writers as well as artists in the native tradition who share a common project of reinserting the problematic of our time into the world of native cosmogony.The course’s site in Oaxaca proved to be particularly apt, due to the fact that Oaxaca is the most

me never to cede one centimeter of what I perceive as just and morally correct. This was the worst part of my experience because it forced me to begin to shed the innocent skin of my privileged upbringing and, I must admit, naïve and misguided perception of the world. However, realizing these difficult lessons was the catalyst to understanding how vital quality education is and how transformative it can (and should!) be. I credit Oaxaca with planting the seed for my pursuit of intellectual growth