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Earl LovelaceEarl Lovelace was born in Toco, Trinidad, and has lived most of his life on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. His books include The Wine of Astonishment, While Gods Are Falling, winner of the BP Independence Award, the Caribbean classic The Dragon Can’t Dance, and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. He is the author of the new novel Is Just a Movie, published by Haymarket Books. The novel was named the Grand Prize winner of the 2012 Bocas Literary Festival.
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Classics, also created an innovative assignment for remote learning. His students in the International Honors Course “Liberty, Power, and Imagination” were originally supposed to run a roundtable discussion about the book Frankenstein, in which they imagined historical and literary characters responding to the novel. When that became impossible, Dr. Travillian had the students each write up their ideas and workshop essays with one another. They ended up making the record of their excellent and
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May 2021 Graduates Congratulations to our seven Innovation Studies graduates! Posted by: halvormj / May 22, 2021 May 22, 2021 By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies. We are delighted to announce the graduation of seven Innovation Studies minors this May, and we wish them well in all future endeavors. This year’s graduates include Sage Allen, Anastasia Bidne, Megan Goninan, Robert Helle, Benjamin Leschensky, Michelle Mendoza, and Blaise Osborne. Each student completed the INOV 350
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September 29, 2008 Chinese Studies program receives grant The university has received a $200,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to continue work begun in 2002, when it gave $786,000 to broaden and strengthen the PLU Chinese Studies Program and enrich Chinese studies in local elementary and high schools.“The follow-up grant competition was by invitation only, indicating that PLU was among the most successful of the 84 institutions that shared the original $100 million from the foundation
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, which she currently chairs. She also is a faculty affiliate in the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Program. At PLU she teaches a range of Holocaust related courses, such as The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination, Anne Frank as Holocaust Icon, Sex, Gender, and Holocaust Literature, a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts, and our foundational class, Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies. She was recently selected to participate in the Jack and
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Lydia Flaspohler ’25 and Ryan Fisher ’24 dive into the secrets of marine microorganisms Have you ever wondered how the ocean’s tiniest inhabitants play a significant role in shaping our world? Marine microorganisms, minuscule life forms, wield a vital influence over our planet’s climate. They manage crucial components like carbon and oxygen within the vast oceans and the atmosphere.… September 28, 2023 BiologyChemistryEnvironmental Studies
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, Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations, Understanding the World though Sports and Recreation and Our Thirsty Planet – A look at Earth’s most precious resource. PRÉCIS 7th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM THE COUNTENANCE OF HOPE: TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF RESILIENCE A PLU ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, GLOBAL STUDIES AND WANG CENTER COLLABORATION PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 25-26, 2016“Resilience”, derived the from Latin resilire, meaning to rebound or
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explore the concept of “resilience” during the seventh biennial Wang Center Symposium.Officially titled The Countenance of Hope: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Resilience, the international symposium will offer two days and evenings of keynote and panel presentations. Through presentations by professionals, authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the international symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. All sessions are
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magicA Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers A short tale on robots returning to humanity after leaving for the wild. Read if you love… solar punkLegends & Lattes by Travis Baldree This is a story about an ex-soldier opening a coffee shop in a high fantasy setting. Read if you love…queer fiction, found family, or D&D. Yellowface by RF KuangYellowface explores issues of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation as a white author claims to be their Asian-American rival. Read if you love
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Quarterly. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has lectured extensively in ten countries on three continents, including the biennial Kaplan Holocaust Lectures at the University of Cape Town, the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont, and the annual Meyerhoff Lecture at the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum. Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus, will be this year's Lemkin Lecturer on April 4, 2017 in the Scandinavian Cultural
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