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  • Liu Anping, 刘安平 School of Foreign Studies, Chongqing Jiaotong University Biography Biography Anping Liu (刘安平) is associate professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Chongqing Jiaotong University in Chongqing,China. Before arriving in 2023 as Visiting Scholar at Pacific Lutheran University, the Confucius Institute of the State of Washington and the Seattle Public Schools he served as Chinese Language Teacher (2006-2009) and Co-director (2014-2016) at the Confucius Institute at Abomey Calavi

  • architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. PLU Faculty ProfileSince 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published extensively on the origins, development, and gifts of Lutheran higher education, and represented PLU at international conferences in ritual studies and reformation studies. Dr. Torvend served as the first University

  • Geoff Foy, Ph.D. Associate Provost for Continuing Education Phone: 253-535-7231 Email: foy@plu.edu Professional Education Ph.D., Historical and Cultural Study of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, 2003 M.A., Religious Studies, Gonzaga University, 1992 B.A., Psychology, Gonzaga University, 1988

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  • October 17, 2014 3 Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University honors the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl’s birth with three events that celebrate the impact he made on PLU, environmental scholarship, anthropological theory and Norwegians around the world. Heyerdahl, who first came to the world’s attention in 1947 for his

  • instances of funds of knowledge, particularly as they relate to early childhood education in the Muslim community. When she took a group of PLU education students to India last J-Term to visit schools, she realized she knew very little about the cultural practices in Muslim community schools. It made her wonder – what are the learning practices that south Indian Muslim children bring from home that might facilitate learning later in the classroom? And how could those cultural practices inform what is

  • Section 1. COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONSA. Department of Kinesiology B. Department of Marriage and Family Therapy C. School of Nursing D. Department of Social WorkSection 2. COLLEGE OF LIBERAL STUDIESA. Department of Anthropology B. Department of Economics C. Department of English D. Department of Global and Cultural Studies E. Department of History F. Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Program G. Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program H. Individualized Major I.  Master of Fines Arts in Creative

  • The 2019 Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture “What Makes a Man Start Fires?”From the Cambodian Genocide to CharlottesvilleThursday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural CenterSpeaker: Alexander Hinton, Ph.D., Rutgers University, NewarkAbstract:“What make a man start fires?” In November 2017, New York Times reporter Richard Faussett asked this question, posed by an album title of the punk band Minutemen, in regard to Tony Hovater — a white nationalist, Nazi

  • Division of the Senior Historian, The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Raphael Lemkin Lecture & Award CeremonyApril 25, 2019 at 7 p.m. Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC Free and open to the publicMiss the Event?Click Here to View Video About Raphael LemkinLearn more about the Polish-born Jew who escaped from Nazi-controlled Poland during the war, and what the lecture is all about.More

  • Xinmin Liu Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. Phone: 509-335-8713 Email: xinmin.liu@wsu.edu Biography Biography Xinmin Liu is an associate professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale in 1997, and is currently teaching Chinese culture, film and language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at WSU. His teaching and research are chiefly

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  • 253.535.7209 www.plu.edu/individualized-majors/ bixelp@plu.edu Patricia Bixel, Ph.D., Interim Dean Individualized Major in Interdisciplinary StudiesThis program offers students the opportunity to develop and complete personally designed, interdisciplinary majors that are grounded in the liberal arts and build connections with professional programs. Students may apply for the Individualized Major in Interdisciplinary Studies at any time during their years at PLU, but it is preferred they do so