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campus Oct. 28. “The conference aims to take a very broad approach to understanding word-image aesthetics in contemporary China and beyond,” Manfredi said. Participating scholars are coming from the United Kingdom, Taiwan, China, Canada and various locations in the United States, Manfredi said. They are specialists in Chinese contemporary art, contemporary literature and film, as well as literature and art from other regions of the world. The project, titled “Ekphrastic Assimilations: Finding Poetry

1965, Foss is now outdated both in aesthetics and in serviceability. The total cost to address the building’s numerous inadequacies has been estimated at $8.5 million. Foss’ fate was sealed only after multiple attempts to fund its revival. In 2009 and 2011, PLU administrators submitted Foss as a candidate for FEMA seismic retrofit funding; both applications were rejected because the cost of the seismic upgrade exceeded the amount allowed under the federal formula. In 2013 and 2014, PLU’s facilities

diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within the International Neuroethics Society. Brown’s interdisciplinary research includes the potential impact of neurotechnologies on end users’ agency and embodiment, and the potential to exacerbate or create social inequities. Brown works at the intersection of biomedical ethics, philosophy of technology, (black/latinx/queer) feminist thought, and aesthetics. He recently won an essay contest for a piece titled “Moral Bioenhancement as Potential Means of

a different take,” said Philosophy Professor Erin McKenna. “He complicates some of those solutions. He’ll take things that people do automatically and show that you actually have to think about what you’re doing.” Each year the Philosophy Department hosts an event, but this is the first year they have done an event of this magnitude. “We wanted to break out from just having a speaker,” said McKenna. Anyone with an interest in food, including food aesthetics, ethics, politics, or nutrition, is

of Wisconsin in Marshfield/Wood County. Kuehn, who is particularly interested in food aesthetics, also led a presentation on Tuesday, when the symposium sessions opened for PLU and the greater community. His talk, entitled “Cooking and Love: Why No One Can Ever Cook Like Grandma,” was part of a session on food passions. Other sessions on Tuesday included topics, such as the chemistry of farming, how to know what goes into your food, and feeding the public. The two-day symposium ended with a

, (black/latinx/queer) feminist thought, and aesthetics. He recently won an essay contest for a piece titled “Moral Bioenhancement as Potential Means of Oppression.” Professor Henry T. (Hank) Greely will speak on “Human Biological Enhancement: Fears, Realities, and Significance.” Greely chairs the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics’s steering committee and directs the Center for Law and the Biosciences, and the Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society. Greely is also a professor of genetics at

colleagues and Indigenous scholars from other nations. Currently, I am involved in two major research projects: a place-based study on competing and collaborating stories and perspectives with Dr. Kikki Jernsletten, a Sámi colleague in Norway, and a project on Indigenous aesthetics with an international group of Indigenous scholars including Sámi, Cree, Maori, and Native Hawaiians. Both projects involve developing critical scholarly approaches deriving from Indigenous ways of knowing.This research focus

On Exhibit: Cardboard Containers sculptures by 3-D design students Posted by: Holly Senn / May 15, 2023 May 15, 2023 This exhibit of student work is based on an art class assignment in which students were given everyday objects and tasked with replicating and constructing forms using sheets and rolls of cardboard, self-adhesive paper tape, and hot glue. The project covered scale, mathematical reasoning, armatures, product design, logo and graphic design, and the aesthetics of commercialism. To

, Carnival is a celebration of survival and resilience against the oppressions of slavery and colonialism as well as a celebration of life and art. Every year Carnival is somewhat different as it responds to changing aesthetics, changing ideas, and world events that form the topics for the famous Calypso songs. Students in this J-term course spend time visiting rehearsals of steel bands, talking to both teachers and performers of calypso, and meeting with other community leaders involved with the

., his epistemology, political and social philosophy, aesthetics, and his philosophy of nature.” Dr. Arnold taught courses at the University of Washington Tacoma before coming to PLU. These courses included: Environmental Ethics, Ethics in Society, and Introduction to Philosophy. In the past at PLU, Dr. Arnold has taught two courses: Philosophy of Love and Sex, and Women and Philosophy. During Fall 2017 at PLU, Dr. Arnold is teaching Business Ethics. Dr. Arnold became interested in philosophy as an