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Meet Dr. Marnie Ritchie, Assistant Professor of Communication! Posted by: Todd / January 10, 2020 January 10, 2020 Meet the Communications department’s most recent faculty member, Dr. Marnie Ritchie. Dr. Ritchie joined PLU in 2018 and has taught a variety of communications classes since then, from introductory communications to courses covering complex topics like gender and ethics. Dr. Ritchie’s other interests for her own research and writing include rhetorical studies, war, and surveillance
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alumnus Dr. Richard Weathermon ’50, the Richard and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for jazz studies created an annual two-day artist-in-residence program to bring a renowned jazz artist to campus to perform with the University Jazz Ensemble and a select local high school jazz band, to lead rehearsals and public master classes, and participate in other educational and performance activities. Last year, the University Jazz Ensemble featured tenor saxophonist, Jeff Coffin. This year, alto
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. The Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra performed in the Professional Ensemble Concert category. The 50-minute set included pieces from the 2017 album Infância (meaning “childhood” in Portuguese) as well as a new piece composed especially for the conference. Performers included a face familiar to PLU Jazz followers – former Director of Jazz Studies, David Deacon-Joyner on piano. Other talented performers included Greg Yasinitsky from Washington State University (tenor sax), José Aponte from University of
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November 10, 2010 Reviving Confucianism By Chris Albert As part of the PLU Chinese Studies Program lecture series, Daniel A. Bell will visit campus to examine the revival of Confucianism as the moral foundation for political rule in China. Confucianism is making a comeback in Chinese debate about moral and political foundation. Below is a video with the last lecturer in the series, journalist Martin Jacques. “We stand at a moment in history where we can decide to be friendly competitors or
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speaker for the March 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Forum. [Augsburg, Augustana (Sioux Falls), Concordia (Moorhead), Luther, and St. Olaf]. “We pride ourselves on global education and I think this is one way for us to practice globally within the United States,” said Claudia Berguson, associate professor or Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies at PLU. The Nobel Peace Prize Forum, an annual three-day event in Minneapolis, is held to inspire students and other citizens to become active participants in
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key member of the Real News Network from 2009-11, he produced more than 100 investigative video pieces on economics, politics and social movements in North and Central America. Since 2012, Freeston has directed five documentaries for TeleSUR, the world’s largest public Spanish-language broadcaster. Resistencia is his second documentary film on Honduras. The screening is a collaborative project, co-sponsored by the PLU Departments of Anthropology, History and Global Studies; International Honors
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is now we are not limited by physical space. People from all over the world can join us for this edition of The People’s Gathering.” Speakers and conversation facilitators will include educators, nonprofit leaders, and consultants from the Tacoma are as well as across the country. Local leaders and educators will include Lua Pritchard, executive director of the Asian Pacific Culture Center; Danica Sterud Miller, American Indian Studies professor at UW Tacoma; and Troy Storfjell, a PLU Nordic
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PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan Posted by: Silong Chhun / February 16, 2023 February 16, 2023 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing and CommunicationsThe Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music and the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for Jazz Studies will host the PLU Weathermon Jazz Festival on Tuesday, March 21. The public is invited to the festival’s evening concert showcase featuring Aubrey Logan, the PLU Jazz Ensemble and PLU Jazz
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years, I’ve developed a course for our International Honors program, and I’ve learned all sorts of amazing new music doing that. I’ve done the same for our Nordic Studies program and learned all sorts of great Scandinavian music (from Grieg to Heavy Metal) that I would not have known about without teaching that course. Now I’m working on a similar course in film music for our new Film Studies program. Would you share your favorite memory from a performance? When I was eight years old, I performed
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Hardison LaVon Hardison sings jazz standards, originals, and her own eclectic and compelling arrangements of popular songs. Equally at home at jazz clubs, corporate events, private parties, and sacred settings, LaVon uses her background in musical theater, opera, and jazz as a foundation for her accessible, joyful, and engaging musical explorations.Learn more August 2: David Deacon-Joyner David Deacon-Joyner is a retired Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. He is a
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