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Speakers Free and Open to the Public. Formal registration has ended. You are welcome to attend any of the lectures, please join us! Wednesday, November 1Steve PressmanRobert P. EricksenSteve PressmanPresentation Title: “Holy Secrets: Behind the Scenes” Who: Steve Pressman, documentary filmmaker Bio: Steven Pressman was born and raised in Los Angeles and received an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for many years as a newspaper and

Chicago, and is a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains. She is particularly interested in the contribution of storytelling and ritual as part of the healing process, and enjoys bringing her love of choral singing and music into her chaplaincy practice. Rev. Tadao KoyamaWho: Rev. Tadao Koyama, Tacoma Buddhist Temple, Tacoma, WA Bio: Rev. Tadao Koyama is the officiating minister of Tacoma Buddhist Temple, starting in 2020. A West Coast native, he was born and raised

Van Noord, eds., After the Holocaust: Human Rights and Genocide Education in the Approaching Post-Witness Era (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Regina Press, 2020) Nigeria, in Fulvio Maria Palombino, ed., Duelling for Supremacy: International Law vs National Fundamental Principles (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/duelling-for-supremacy/C42834425188… Judging the Impossible: Kapos and Justice after the Holocaust, Reflections: Auschwitz

Procedures Against Women in Auschwitz: An Unspoken Narrative” Who: Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D. Bio: Dr. Peggy J. Kleinplatz is Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Psychology and Director of Sex and Couples Therapy Training at the University of Ottawa. She is a clinical psychologist, Board Certified in Sex Education and as a Diplomate and Supervisor of Sex Therapy. In 2015, Kleinplatz received the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counsellors and Therapists’ Professional Standard of

) support student learning and success by sharing our own passion for sociology,” Leon-Guerrero said. “Their capstone highs and lows are no different than what we’ve experienced in our own scholarship.” Leon-Guerrero noted that one theme within Packard’s findings surprised her. “His subjects reported that they were never formally trained on how to manage their emotional labor,” she said. “Landon was critical about the lack of preparation and training for emotion management and questioned the long-term

. The goal, he says, is to make users “more aware of how often they pull the phone out of their pockets,” while allowing them to create study opportunities. The team behind the app includes current and former students Adam Baldwin ‘18, Colton Walter ‘19, and Nick Sundvall ‘20, and local developer and educator Peter Gruenbaum. Engineer and entrepreneur Al Herron has also been a mentor. At PLU, Mbugua appreciates the academic rigor and close relationships with professors. He found a sense of community

religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture. Her research interests address questions of healing, place, and ecology, and how religious belief and practice can work to promote ecological and social justice in Ireland and in North America. Most recently, she published Religion and Culture in Native America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) an introductory textbook intended for undergraduate classrooms and general readers, written in collaboration with her mentor Dr. Inés

resource management and a review of examples of HR practices in P-12 school systems. This course extends what building leaders know and understand about HR and looks at it through a district and superintendent role. There will be an examination of human resource planning, development, and utilization in modern organizations. Topics include: recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, collective bargaining, contracts, benefit programs, relationships, and role of the human

Yulin Rittenberg Founders, Rittenberg Associates, Inc. Bio: Sidney Rittenberg went to China in World War II as an idealistic young GI, after training by the US Army in China Area and Language Studies at Stanford. After his honorable discharge, he spent many years helping to train Chinese journalists in English, and working on the translations of major documents, including the “Collected Works of Mao Zedong.” He was the only American citizen to be admitted to the Chinese Communist Party, until his