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The Lyric Brass Quintet will perform “Luther, Seven Scenes for Brass Quintet” composed by PLU music professor emeritus Jerry Kracht, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “The piece is highly programmatic—that…
case the story of Martin Luther and his journey from young law student to monk, to pilgrim, to theology professor, to critic of the Roman Church, to heretic and fugitive, and finally to founder of the Lutheran Reformation, which we celebrate around the world this year on its 500th anniversary,” Kracht says. “The music is descriptive of that narrative, using both music from Luther’s own time as well as music of my own composition, in a blend that ranges from Renaissance sounds to modern.” The piece
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The Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture – Catching up to Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization Professor Yong Zhao, from the University of Oregon, will examine if education reform in the United States is heading down the right path…
March 9, 2012 The Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture – Catching up to Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization Professor Yong Zhao, from the University of Oregon, will examine if education reform in the United States is heading down the right path in a world that is more dramatically shaped by globalization and technology, during the Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture. The lecture starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 15 in the Scandinavian
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Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…
. in Xavier 201. About the Author: Joshua L. Reid was born and raised in Washington and is a registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation. Reid is currently an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. Reid’s presentation is titled “Makah Voices and the Sea” and will be related to his inaugural book “The Sea is my Country.” This award-winning book explores the Makahs, a tribal nation
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Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…
. in Xavier 201. About the Author: Joshua L. Reid was born and raised in Washington and is a registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation. Reid is currently an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. Reid’s presentation is titled “Makah Voices and the Sea” and will be related to his inaugral book “The Sea is my Country.” This award-winning book explores the Makahs, a tribal nation
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Associate Professor of Anthropology | Department of Anthropology | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.
Fertility Strategies in Contemporary Japan." Human Organization Vol. 71(2), 2012: 188-199. Nosaka, Akiko and Athanasios Chasiotis. "Parental Influence on Fertility Behavior of First Generation Turkish Immigrants in Germany." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health Vol. 12(1), 2010: 60-67. "The M - Shaped Dilemma: Life Strategies and Fertility Trends among Working Women in Contemporary Japan." Ethnology Vol. 48(1), 2009: 21-38. "Coresidence and Geographic Dispersion of Adult Children and Their Mothers
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*The Lyric Brass Quintet as two albums for sale! Click here to order American Music for Brass Quintet which includes the world-premiere recording of a piece written especially for Lyric.
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Su Qiaoling Guangxi University of Science and Technology, China Su Qiaoling was hosted by the PLU School of Business; their area of focus was on business education in the American context.
Past Visiting ScholarsPLU and the Wang Center are proud of our visiting scholars and the work they have achieved. Below, you can find past visiting scholars listed in the year they arrived to PLU.2019-2020 Visiting ScholarsSu Qiaoling Guangxi University of Science and Technology, China Su Qiaoling was hosted by the PLU School of Business; their area of focus was on business education in the American context. Wang Yi North China Electric Power University, China Wang Yi’s focus was in marketing
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Friday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you're unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom.
– Statistical Analysis of Bechdel Test Data: How movies are impacted by their representation of women Eva Reutercrona The representation of women in movies and media is an important current topic. The entertainment industry has historically been male dominated and has been slow to change. As a way to analyze a movie’s representation of women, a test was created by Alison Bechdel, an American graphic novelist, to measure representation of female identifying characters in media. In order to pass the test
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Friday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you're unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom.
– Statistical Analysis of Bechdel Test Data: How movies are impacted by their representation of women Eva Reutercrona The representation of women in movies and media is an important current topic. The entertainment industry has historically been male dominated and has been slow to change. As a way to analyze a movie’s representation of women, a test was created by Alison Bechdel, an American graphic novelist, to measure representation of female identifying characters in media. In order to pass the test
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Professor of History, Emeritus | Department of History | sobania@plu.edu | Dr.
, with contributions by Neal Sobania and Leah Niederstadt (Fowler Museum 2005) : View Book Culture and Customs of Kenya (Greenwood 2003) : View Book Selected Articles "The Formation of Ethnic Identity in South Omo: The Dassanech." The Journal of Eastern African Studies Vol. 5 (1), 2011: 195-210. "Icons of Devotion/'Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary 'Traditional' Ethiopian Painting with Ray Silverman." African Arts Vol. 42 (1), 2009: 26-37. Accolades 2009 Led the effort
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