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  • Learn More: Luba Pipe https://www.plu.edu/africanartcollection/personal-objects/luba-pipe/learn-more-luba-pipe/

    throughout much of south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Luba applies to a variety of peoples who are of different origins but speak closely related language and share many similar cultural traits. The Luba occupy savanna and forest regions and practice hunting, gathering, farming, and herding. They practice circumcision, women’s initiation, have associations with hunting, magic, and medicine. They are also renowned wood-carvers. The religion of the Luba people share common cosmology and basic

  • School of Business IMPACT Awards https://www.plu.edu/busa/impact-awards-3/

    standards. The IMPACT Award program is generously funded by the King Zulauf Endowed Fund for Business established by Thomas O. Carlson (’65). Mr. Carlson felt strongly that University and community collaboration enriches the PLU experience, and encouraged industry connection opportunities such as the IMPACT Award event to facilitate student and speaker engagement. Previous SpeakersDon Gaines March 2, 2023 │ 7:00pm │ Scandinavian Cultural Center (reception to follow) Don is a proud PLU MBA graduate who

  • Akiko Nosaka https://www.plu.edu/chinesestudies/staff/akiko-nosaka/

    Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural

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  • Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2015/03/16/communication-faculty-publish-paper-exploring-the-rhetoric-of-food/

    Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food Posted by: Todd / March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food. The first paper entitled “Rhetoric & Foodways” outlines the potential for a rhetorical examination of food

  • Akiko Nosaka https://www.plu.edu/gender-sexuality-race/staff/akiko-nosaka/

    Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural

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    253-535-7664

  • Akiko Nosaka https://www.plu.edu/global-cultural-studies/staff/akiko-nosaka/

    Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural

    Contact Information
    253-535-7664

  • Akiko Nosaka https://www.plu.edu/global-studies/staff/akiko-nosaka/

    Vol. 9(1), 2009: 13-28. Nosaka, Akiko and Radheshyam Bairagi. "Traditional Roles, Modern Behavior: Intergenerational Intervention and Contraception in Rural Bangladesh." Human Organization Vol. 67(4), 2008: 407-416. Biography Dr. Nosaka’s core study interests are family and inter-generational relationships, which she approaches by looking at issues such as aging, gender, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural

    Contact Information
    253-535-7664

  • Annual Raphael Lemkin Lecture & Award Ceremony https://www.plu.edu/holocaustconference-first-do-no-harm/lemkin-lecture/

    Patricia Heberer-Rice - U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 7 p.m. | Thursday, April 25, 2019 | Anderson University Center – Scandinavian Cultural Center Free and Open to the Public Nameless Victims, Silenced Voices: A Profile of Victims of the ``Euthanasia`` ProgramFrom October 1939 until the final days of World War II, the “euthanasia” (T4) program claimed the lives of an estimated 250,000 disabled patients residing in institutional settings throughout Germany and in certain regions of German

  • Part IV. – INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE https://www.plu.edu/faculty-handbook/section-v-special-institutional-policies-and-procedures/part-iv-inclusive-language/

    PLU supports the efforts of faculty, students, staff, and administrators to employ and augment the inclusive language guidelines of their professions or disciplines, and to reflect upon the cultural conditions which have made such guidelines integral to contemporary language use. General ELCA guidelines suggest that inclusive language avoid stereotypes and biases and not alienate, demean, or misrepresent persons based on gender, race, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, class

  • Jeffery Wright https://www.plu.edu/hope/speakers/jeffery-wright/

    response. He holds a Master’s Degree in cultural anthropology. Jeff got his start in Southeast Asia, and speaks Vietnamese and Thai. He currently lives in western Washington with his family and works for World Vision International as a Senior Humanitarian Advisor.