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Excellence at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA; in this role, she oversees efforts to diversify the curriculum, institute equitable hiring practices, and familiarize faculty with inclusive teaching methods. She is also an associate professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, regularly teaching courses in critical theory at PLU as well as at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, WA as part of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS).PLU SpeakersMichael Artime

(including the University Gallery Annex and the Karen Hille Phillips Gallery) and manages the University’s Permanent Art Collection. Conference ScheduleAustin KarrPresentation Title: “Slovakia and the Inability to Confront the Past: Slovakia’s Turbulent Relationship with the First Slovak Republic and the Holocaust.” Who: Austin Karr Bio: Conference ScheduleAnna MarkoPresentation Title: “The Application of the “Bloodlands Theory” to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Tutsi Diaspora” Who: Anna Marko

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She served as the Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Conference ScheduleBio: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional. Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, she is best known for her interdisciplinary contributions to Jewish studies and to the theory

Logic: Globalization, Conspiracy Theory and the Shoah”, which appeared in the 2012 volume Holocaust Denial: the Politics of Perfidy, edited by Robert Wistrich (an earlier version was published by the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University in 2009) and “Antisemitism and Terrorism on the Electronic Highway” which appeared in the book Terrorism and the Internet: Threats — Target Groups — Deradicalisation Strategies (IOS Press for NATO, 2010). Mr. Weitzman also co

communities, health vulnerability for all people and climate catastrophes across the planet. She will also share both Navdanya’s experience and her scientific research on how biodiversity and agroecology create economic and social health and climate resilience. Bio: Dr. Vandana Shiva trained as a Physicist at the University of Punjab, and completed her PhD on the ‘Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory’ from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary

graduated from PLU in 1960, and later earned a Ph.D. in probability theory at Wayne State University in Detroit. Grace Wang also holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State, in chemistry.

assignment was to envision a web that prioritized the circulation of credible information. Critical making is a process where students apply theories and concepts to a creative project or artifact, and where imaginative design – focusing more on engagement with theory and concepts, rather than functionality – is encouraged. The students created designs and mock-ups of browser extensions, mobile apps, and other online utilities for users to help determine the credibility of online information. Their work

patients in areas facing health care shortages. Tracy Pitt — associate director of advising, admission and student support in the School of Nursing — said that by the end of the 27-month program, each individual has completed more than 1,000 clinical hours. Seavor said the community-based experience graduate students gain increases their confidence and makes for a smoother transition from theory to practice after graduation. “That’s building the lifelong learning process,” Seavor said. “We couldn’t do