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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University will host a lecture by Seattle University School of Law Professor Dean Spade, a leading scholar and activist in trans rights. His talk, “Romantic Notions: Soldiers, Spouses and the Limits of LGBT Equality,” will be held at 6…
event, which is free, is sponsored by PLU’s Women’s Center, the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Diversity Center. The last 40 years of queer and trans politics has seen a drastic shift, Spade says: Much of 1960s and ’70s queer and trans activism had complex and explicit ties to anti-war and anti-police movements, as well as to feminist disruptions of traditional gender roles, including militarized masculinities. Today, a highly visible, corporate-funded gay and lesbian rights agenda
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Presented by Ehlimana Memišević, a legal historian and genocide scholar. April 20, 11 a.m. | Virtual This event is free and open to the public.
from 1992 to 1995. The violence resulted in more than 100,000 deaths, some 2.5 million displaced, 800,000 destroyed homes, and widespread human rights abuse. Denial of the crimes took place during the genocide and continued immediately after. Memišević is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo.Lemkin Lecture Registration Ehlimana Memišević About Raphael LemkinLearn more about the Polish-born Jew who escaped from Nazi
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No tuition fee for J-Term study away courses Program fees differ for each J-Term study away course based on the cost of travel to the site, what is included in the experience, and other factors.
programs Applications for J-Term 2025 are now closed. Check back in January for information about J-Term 2026! Explore J-Term 2025 ProgramsInternational Programs BIOL 363 | Tropical Marine EcologyProgram Brochure ARTD 383 (CX) or IHON 260 (H2) | The Arts and Society: How Museums Make MeaningProgram Brochure NURS 287 (VW) | Is Death Allowed?: An International Comparative Look at End-of-Life PoliciesProgram Brochure NURS 487/587/687 | Social Determinants of Health in Oaxaca: Understanding the
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
Take a peak inside Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Follow Professor Egge’s biology class as they reconstruct a massive gray whale skeleton in a new Rieke Science Center classroom as part of BIOL 352: Comparative Anatomy. In BIOL 352, you take an evolutionary approach to understanding the complexities of vertebrate morphology. Through hands-on examination… April 22, 2024 AcademicsBiologyPre-HealthProfessorsSeeker
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
Take a peak inside Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Follow Professor Egge’s biology class as they reconstruct a massive gray whale skeleton in a new Rieke Science Center classroom as part of BIOL 352: Comparative Anatomy. In BIOL 352, you take an evolutionary approach to understanding the complexities of vertebrate morphology. Through hands-on examination… April 22, 2024 AcademicsBiologyPre-HealthProfessorsSeeker
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Many students want to know how governments are organized, how rules are made and how government influences the amount and distribution of social rewards.
understanding of politics. The study of political science helps to prepare you for the exercise of your rights, duties and opportunities as citizens. Courses in politics can lead you to fuller understanding of various areas such as American government institutions, legislative processes, foreign policy, international relations, public law and political theory. Many students see the value of combining an understanding of politics with other fields, such as the natural sciences, economics, business
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January Term (J-Term for short) , PLU’s month-long term between fall and spring semesters, is when many of our students take advantage of our incredible study away options in multiple places around the world. Planned and coordinated by professors and PLU’s study away center, J-Term…
the photos from students this J-Term studying in England! Are you interested in learning more about travel away J-Term classes? See where PLU students can spend their J-Term in 2025. Lutes in Oxford are studying the contested history of religion and politics through visiting sites where people fought for freedom from imperial Christianity, where early evangelicals registered their dissent against the established order, and where future prime ministers and other members of Parliament developed
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Lutheran Studies Conference
nationalism.” The Knutson Lecture, the evening capstone to the conference, will be given by Dr. Marc Dollinger, holder of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. The title of his lecture is, “From Religion to Politics: Antisemitism and Jew Hatred From Ancient Times Until Today.” Dr. Dollinger will speak at 7:00 PM. Dr. Dollinger has also published on Black American and Jewish American relations (Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the
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Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,
explore how this living tradition understands the meaning of human life. Lutheranism is a movement within the Christian tradition and the course examines it within the context of our diverse, pluralistic, and secular world. The course includes topics such as: the history of this tradition and its impact, grace and freedom, church and secular authority, and social advocacy in politics, race, and gender. (4) RELI 226 : Christian Ethics - RL, VW This course introduces and explores moral arguments in
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Panel: Michael Artime, Corey L. ook, Justin Eckstein, Mary Ellard-Ivey, Sergia Hay, and Heidi Schutz Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center
Sufi Leader, Greater Seattle Area Introduced by Suzanne Crawford-O’Brien, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center About the Paul O. Ingram Lecture: Held every other year, this lectureship celebrates the work of Professor Emeritus Paul O. Ingram. These lectures continue Dr. Ingram’s work in extending understandings of all religions through scholarship and teaching in comparative religions and interreligious dialog, by bringing to campus scholars whose
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