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2016-17 Bjug Harstad Memorial LectureSigbjørn Skåden - 7pm October 4th in the PLU Scandinavian Cultural Center Sigbjørn Skåden, an award-winning Sámi poet and novelist from Norway, will deliver this year’s Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 4th, in PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center. Born in 1976, Mr. Skåden has written in both his native North Sámi, one of the languages of the Indigenous Sámi people, and in Norwegian, and will be discussing his works’ thematization of

historical juncture.) German speakers have become household names in the fields studied by humanities scholars, whether in literature (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka), film (Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders), music (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven), art (Caspar David Friedrich, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter), philosophy (Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt), and religion (Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich), to name a few

Hispanic Studies Students Meet with Celebrated Mexican Author Juan VilloroOn February 26th, 2016, a group of students in the PLU Hispanic Studies program had the unique opportunity to meet and converse with one of Mexico’s leading intellectuals, Juan Villoro. A prize-winning novelist whose social commentary appears regularly in the most important news outlets in the Spanish-speaking world, Villoro has been Professor of Literature at Mexico’s National University, as well as Visiting Professor at

, weaving, nålbinding and more. Along with that it displayed the dyeing process, what’s used and how, as well as the myths and folklore surrounding it.  The exhibit also showed how some of our modern products are produced, where the techniques come from, and how they affect our daily lives. The SCC displayed costumes from our collection, including examples from the Sámi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish and Swedish pieces. Although textiles are important as cover and protection, they also portray

history and tradition of Scandinavian explorers who have spanned the globe encountering new lands, boldly reaching inaccessible places and making countless contributions to human knowledge. Viking seafarers, for example, were in America 500 years before Christopher Columbus, a Norwegian was the first to travel to the South Pole and Heyerdahl was a pioneer of experimental archaeology in the world’s oceans. Admission to the exhibit is free and open to the public during SCC open hours (Tues/Wed 11am to

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Great Artists:  Re-tracing as a Tool for Artist Biographies in comics form” in ImageText Volume 10, Issue 3 about the ways in which these two Norwegian comics creators tell the biographies of well-known artists. Endowed by the generosity of the descendants of Bjug Harstad och others, the Bjug Harstad Endowed Lecture was established to carry out Harstad’s heartfelt plea to maintain ties with Scandinavian culture and traditions.Bjug Harstad Memorial EndowmentBjug Harstad and Harstad HallPast Bjug A

black colors. A countdown clock appears on the left side of the screen counting down from 60 seconds] (timer beeping) English is the study of how people use the creative power of the written word. Storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of human expression. It’s an exciting time to study English. The surge in digital media and technology means that people are reading and writing in all sorts of new ways. At PLU, English majors can choose a concentration in literature, creative writing, or

Language and Heritage Language, Hispanic Literature, Mexican Culture and History, and Mexican Film. He has worked at ICO since 2004, where he teaches international students, mainly from the USA, who visit Oaxaca as part of their study away programs at University of Chicago, Pacific Lutheran University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Montana, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Bard College, Indiana University South Bend, and more. He holds certificates from the Instituto Cervantes