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Locals embrace Lutes as they meet living legends, learn about vibrant events such as Carnival and Panorama, and develop valuable racial consciousness within a multicultural society that celebrates
Trinidad.” Hughes acknowledges that many students are attracted to the program because of Carnival, an annual celebration rich with music, dancing, costumes and more that Hughes says “engulfs the whole country.” But the semester abroad provides students with deeper meaning behind the elaborate festival. “They go beyond just having a good time,” she said. Among the cultural education, students experience how people from a wide array of religious and ethnic backgrounds live side by side in a small, tight
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Yannet Urgessa ’16 has lived on three continents and speaks five languages. But it took coming to PLU for her to feel comfortable in her own skin for the first time.
family relocated when she was 6 years old, fleeing a country rife with political instability. Her family never abandoned their ethnic Oromo roots, but actively immersed themselves in their new culture. Now, she’s relocated again, extending her international education to a third continent as a sociology major at PLU. The university’s commitment to global education is a value that’s familiar to Urgessa. She speaks five languages — Amhara and Oromo that are native to Ethiopia, English, Norwegian and
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Stephen Kitajo serves on the board for the Puyallup Valley Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.
for multi-ethnic members of the younger generation,” Kitajo said. “I have friends who do struggle with dual identities or figuring themselves out. This pilgrimage is part of their journey.” For Kitajo, the Minidoka Pilgrimage was crucial to understanding the mysteries of his family’s past and his own identity as a descendant. “My first pilgrimage was very meaningful in giving me that perspective, as far as the hardships my family endured and the sacrifices they made,” Kitajo said. “Knowing them
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 25, 2016)- Erik Hammerstrom, assistant professor of East Asian and comparative religions, teaches Pacific Lutheran University students the fundamentals of Buddhism from the shores of Honolulu, Hawaii, to the streets of Chengdu, China. Now, the course has arrived in a more familiar…
varied immigration to the area throughout the 20th century. After Chinese immigrants were expelled by city officials in the late 1800s, Japanese immigrants followed. Before the start of internment, Tacoma had a thriving Japanese community. It was during this time that the Tacoma Buddhist Temple started. After internment was in place, the community was dismantled. Following the implementation of immigration laws in 1965, Korean and Vietnamese immigrants began arriving to the U.S. The conflict in these
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
University College in the fall. “This program is one of the reasons I came to PLU.” Barkman and her classmates participated in a peace and conflict studies program, alongside Norwegian students in small classrooms that mirror PLU’s intimate teaching environment. (Video by Rustin Dwyer and Joshua Wiersma ’18, PLU) During one of the fall lectures, Barkman spoke up with confidence. Instructor Cathrine Talleraas, a guest lecturer from the world-leading Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), asked students to
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Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…
programs reporting to the provost’s office, including Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, History of Philosophy, Transportation Science, and Global Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a noted scholar of Florence Beatrice Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. × "We are delighted to welcome Rae Linda to PLU, and we look
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Every year since 2011, PLU has sent two Lutes to Norway as part of its summer Peace Scholars program. The Lutes learn about peacebuilding and dialogue, bringing what they learn home to apply it on
students’ understanding of the central issues and theories regarding peacebuilding, conflict and war. “It will expose the PLU community to what peacebuilding looks like on a personal basis,” Rush said. Rush says PLU’s mission intersects with many core values in Norway, so the Peace Scholars program is a perfect fit for Lutes. “There is this sense of duty, responsibility, social engagement that I really see are reflected in students at PLU, serving here and beyond,” she said. Beiermann said those values
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
information about all the laureates. (Photos by John Froschauer, PLU) Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey '74 was in the middle of a war. “I was a Coast Guard reservist,” he recalled of his deployment to Kuwait in 2003. “In the desert.” Heavey — who was elected president of the Sons of Norway in Tacoma just before he left — couldn’t believe he was on the ground at the age of 52 aiding the Iraq invasion, the beginning of an armed conflict that eventually
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Conflict is Inevitable, Violence is NotThe 3rd biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial lecture took place on March 1, 2017. A recording of the keynote lecture can be found here. A recording of the alumni panel can be found here. The President and CEO of Search for Common Ground and former Deputy Director of the UN Alliance of Civilizations, Shamil Idriss was the featured speaker, lecturing on Conflict is Inevitable, Violence is Not. To mark the the official launch of the Peace Corps Prep
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