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Above and Beyond for producer Nancy Spielberg, about the American–Jewish WWII pilots who volunteered to fight for Israel in the 1948 War. That film won the audience award at more than 20 film festivals worldwide. Grossman’s 2012 Hava Nagila (The Movie), which used the song as a portal into 150 years of Jewish history, culture and spirituality, was the opening or closing night film at more than 30 film festivals. Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, Grossman’s 2008 film was
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Scandinavia and the Nordic Region - CX, GE A survey of Nordic and Scandinavian music from the Bronze Age to the present, including the classical, folk, and popular traditions found within the region. (4) MUSI 120 : Music and Culture - CX, GE Introduction to the study of Western and non-Western music with an emphasis on musical history, style, and social context. Restricted to music majors and minors. (4) MUSI 125 : Ear Training I - CX Development of aural skills, including interval recognition, sight
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as lips of a darker pigment and eyebrows that have been craved and then darkened, give the mask a lively appearance. The vertical grain of the wood on the upper lip, in which a lip plug (labret) is carved, accurately imitates the look of stretched skin. The lip plug itself has an outside diameter of two inches. In Makonde culture, the lip plug is called an ndona (pl. dindona). This circular wooden plug was inserted in the upper lip, and generally worn by Makonde women, although some Makonde men
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May 27, 2008 Hughes encourages classmates to be global citizens President Anderson, Faculty and Staff, Representative from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, Family and Friends, invited guests, and fellow graduates, Good Afternoon. It gives me great pleasure to stand before you today as a representative of the graduating class of 2008. I am overwhelmed and overjoyed. College…the adventure into a dark tunnel. A space filled with papers, deadlines, challenges
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be felt far and wide. Theodore Charles ’12, who studied anthropology at PLU, spent two years in Turkey researching food culture and migration with the Fulbright program. “Looking at Turkey is kind of an interesting geographical location because over centuries and centuries and centuries you have all these movements of people,” he said. “So you’ve got this confluence of culture.” But through the course of his research, the mass movement of refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East began to
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Publishing & Printing Arts (PPA) Program (Interdisciplinary Minor)Learning Outcomes Through studying the history of print culture, students will review the variety of modes of human expression from antiquity to the present day and analyze the interrelationships between particular cultures and their modes of recording, disseminating, and interpreting information. Through studio press work, students will practice the traditional arts and crafts of the book, its design, and its production and
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Convocation, Opening of the New Year Posted by: Thomas Krise / September 9, 2014 September 9, 2014 PLU marks the opening of our ‘new year’ with Convocation. This ceremony dates back to customs from medieval universities meant to welcome new students and new faculty, and to set intentions for the year ahead — together. This morning, I had the honor of speaking to our Lute community and sharing in the tradition and energy of the day! Creating a culture of sustainable and responsible citizenship
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Suzanne Crawford Associate Professor of Religion and Culture Biography Biography Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien will present The Jewish Healing Movement: Restoring Self, Community, and the Earth. This presentation explores the origins and development of the Jewish Healing Movement. Shaped by interreligious conversation and dialog, this grassroots effort within mainstream Jewish communities has led to the creation of systems of support and rituals of renewal for individuals, communities, and the
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, professor of religion and culture — got Hall thinking about her own culture more than ever before. Canoes land on the shores of Commencement Bay for the annual canoe journey on Saturday, July 28, hosted by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians for the first time in 20 years. (Photos by John Froschauer/PLU) Soon, Crawford had Hall working with the group that established the Native American and Indigenous Studies program at PLU, a venture that led to networking with local indigenous leaders. Hall even worked with
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fluorometer, a device used to measure parameters of visible spectrum fluorescence at a particular emission correlated with chlorophyll A, allowing us to measure and compare cellular growth rates in each experimental culture to determine which cultures were growing fastest and slowest." (PLU photo / Sy Bean) "My lab partner Lydia Flaspohler and I grew marine microbes in the lab,” reflected Fisher. “We place it in the microplate spectrophotometer machine, which essentially measures how dense our cultures
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