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understanding of the questions asked by young adults enabled them to create learning environments that engaged the whole person and drew on the best instincts of their students. Retiring from active teaching in the 1990s, David and Marilyn exemplified a genuine interest in their students and how the privilege of education might be brought to the service of others. This lectureship brings to campus nationally recognized scholars who creatively work within the historical, scriptural, and theological sources
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to be annoying, but because we think it is not just important to know, think and act but also to know the grounds and reasons for knowledge, though and action and whether, why and how they are valid and good. The historical record is replete with the damage done to humans and society from failing to ask hard questions, examine assumptions and critique problematic commitments and courses of action. It is very difficult to do this from within your own framework, so ‘outsiders’ are necessary to
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conversations regarding how non-Indigenous people can support Indigenous sovereignty and advocate for land repatriation. Yet the historical and anthropological facts demonstrate that many contemporary land acknowledgments unintentionally communicate false ideas about the history of dispossession and the current realities of American Indians and Alaska Natives. And those ideas can have detrimental consequences for Indigenous peoples and nations.” ———- Wilkes, R., Duong, A., Kesler, L., & Ramos, H. (2017
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Classics, also created an innovative assignment for remote learning. His students in the International Honors Course “Liberty, Power, and Imagination” were originally supposed to run a roundtable discussion about the book Frankenstein, in which they imagined historical and literary characters responding to the novel. When that became impossible, Dr. Travillian had the students each write up their ideas and workshop essays with one another. They ended up making the record of their excellent and
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Dumitrescu; and the Swedish favorite, Wonderful Peace, by Gustav Nordqvist. Important historical composers Sergei Rachmaninoff and Herbert Howells are represented, as is popular British composer John Rutter. The album features beautiful new works by PLU choral faculty member Brian Galante (Ave Maria and In The Bleak Midwinter), a jubilant Gloria by Randol Alan Bass, and Robert Kyr’s exciting Pacific Sanctus.PurchaseListen on Soundcloud Wondrous ChildThis release is the first double disc Christmas CD
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Past Powell-Heller Holocaust Conferences 2018 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe 2018 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, in its 11th year at Pacific Lutheran University, was dedicated to exploring the role of medical science and the Holocaust. In the last decades, historical research on Nazi Germany has focused on sites of terror- especially concentration camps and extermination camps. Despite a multitude of works exploring these places of terror, comparatively
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hunting and gathering to developing agriculture to developing these complex societies, of which Egypt is. So it’s sort of a laboratory of human history.” While the historical significance of Egypt isn’t lost on Vlieg, her favorite part of the experience was working side-by-side with many of the world’s most prominent archaeologists. “It was like being in college again,” she said. “I worked closely with all of them, and it was so interesting to listen to them. They knew so much.” University
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the process. Black calls his method “historical excavation,” and has used the same process in other books, such as British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement (2011) and War Against the Weak (2003, 2012). This year, Brad Pitt has optioned IBM and the Holocaust to produce a movie based on the book. But Black declined to discuss any movie deals off his books, and referred all questions to his agent. Turning the conversation away from Hollywood and back to his research, he noted that despite
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. Bjug Harstad – the Norwegian immigrant who founded Pacific Lutheran University in 1890—joined the Gold Rush in hopes of saving his school. Harstad’s efforts were valiant, if not triumphant—and now, his descendants are retracing his steps in commemoration. On July 25, three generations of Harstads plan to backpack the rugged Chilkoot Trail from Dyea, Alaska, to the headwaters of the Yukon River in Canada. “There’s always been this powerful historical consciousness,” Mark Harstad, Bjug Harstad’s
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Farm Mobile Food Bank Truck Out of this encounter with a bright and hardworking student, I developed three new courses: Christian Theology of Food and Hunger; Early Christian Initiatives for the Hungry Poor; and Reformation Initiatives for the Hungry Poor. While each of these courses is situated within a historical period, students engage in service learning or research projects in the community: planting and harvesting at Mother Earth Farm in Puyallup; interviewing county leaders who direct food
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