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, and author of contemporary Caribbean literature. Her novel Tentacle was the first Spanish-language book to win the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in 2017. Although she experienced viral music success, Indiana has since shifted her focus to her literary career. She has authored three short story collections and five novels, three of which have been translated into English. Her work in science fiction prominently features themes of queerness, culture, and Dominican social issues
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 4, 2016)- Nearly 13 years ago, Logan Seelye participated in a scrimmage at football camp that changed the course of his life. To say he’s come a long way since then is an understatement. Seelye, senior web designer at Pacific Lutheran University,…
share my story on a large scale, and shed light on how and why my mindset has kept me so strong,” Seelye said. TEDxTacoma speakerLearn more about Logan Seelye's book. Read Previous PLU Theatre alumnus Adam Utley ’04 returns to campus to host TEDxTacoma Read Next PLU business, design and communication professors discuss the importance of “failure” COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private
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Rediscovery: Dr. Jenkins and the Texts of Hermann Broch Posted by: Matthew / December 4, 2017 Image: Professor Jen Jenkins at the grave of Herman Broch in Connecticut. December 4, 2017 By Clayton Regehr '18PLU HumanitiesOccasionally, we are fortunate enough to find things that are more exciting than what we are searching for. This is certainly true for Dr. Jen Jenkins, Associate Professor of German in the Languages and Literature Department at Pacific Lutheran University.Dr. Jenkins spent the
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 14, 2016)- Laurel Minter, a Los Angeles-based, award-winning screenwriter and film director, will offer a beginners’ screenwriting workshop at PLU later this month. The workshop will educate students on how to craft screenplays using tools that most professional screenwriters use. The focus…
production, provides opportunities for students to explore and expand their talents. The screenwriting workshop will be held on Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Anderson University Center. Tuition is $25 per person, and a PLU epass is required to register. To sign up, or for more information, please visit Introduction to Screenwriting by Laura Minter. Laurel Minter, award-winning screenwriter and film director. (Photo courtesy of MediaLab) Michelle McGrath ’17 is a PLU communication major and member
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 4, 2016)- Kamari Sharpley-Ragin reluctantly admits that he used to joke about racism. The ninth-grader from Lincoln High School in Tacoma says it didn’t seem like a big deal, since he never really experienced overt discrimination himself. Now, he says he knows…
representations of racism and how to fight it. PLU students also cultivated a handbook called “AWAKE: A Handbook on Fighting Racism” that will be distributed to all participants by the end of February. Kamari, reflecting on what he learned over the four-week course, sat in the high school cafeteria days before the big performance diligently tracing block letters that spelled “equality” on a giant puzzle piece for his group’s project titled “Keep an Open Mind.” “We’re making a puzzle that represents what would
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him on a journey of discovery, and of his heritage. Sauvage will talk about his heritage and show his film, Weapons of the Spirit, at 7 p.m. March 12 in the Nordquist Lecture Hall in Xavier Hall. The film and discussion are open and free to the public. A Q&A period will follow the film, and Sauvage, as well as Nelly Trocmé Hewett, a teenager in the village during WWII, will participate Pierre Sauvage with two of the residents of Le Chambon. Photo courtesy of Pierre Sauvage. in panel discussions
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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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Philosophical Discourse and Tweeting: On Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s Public Philosophy Posted by: Matthew / December 5, 2017 Image: Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin, philosophy, is PLU’s resident Twitter Diva. December 5, 2017 By Gillian Dockins '19PLU HumanitiesFollowing Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s recent publication in Newsweek, PLU’s Philosophy Department Chair sat down with me to discuss her article’s reception, the role of Twitter in philosophical discourse, and how philosophers of the modern day
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 27, 2016)- Hosted by the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and featuring Holocaust researchers and historians from all over the country, the ninth annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will explore “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 at…
at the Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will address “Jewish Women as Couriers in the Resistance.” In total, the conference will feature 23 speakers including academics, nonprofit directors, authors, college students and a Holocaust survivor. The event is free and open to the public. Online registration is encouraged. More information about the ninth annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education can be found at plu.edu/holocaustconference. PLU Kurt Mayer Chair of
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and Hong residence halls might be improved. There are other similar opportunities for us in the realm of both public and private grants for everything from student faculty research and creative projects to targeted capital projects to new initiatives in environmental sustainability. I salute all of you who are now involved in preparing over $12 million dollars in grant proposals. Goal #4: Long-Range Focus Our fourth goal is to maintain a long-range focus, even while dealing with immediate and
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