Please contact LeAnn Evey (x7129 or eveyld@plu.edu), if you have a lecture you would like added.
Special Lecture
Department of Psychology Colloquium Series
Travis L. Osborne, Ph.D., Director of Training and Quality Assurance
Evidence Based Treatment Center of Seattle
"Making Sense of Compulsive Hoarding and Acquiring"
September 16, 2011
2:00-2:50 p.m. - Xavier 201
Compulsive hoarding is a significant mental health problem that is much more common than previously believed. Dr. Osborne will describe the symptoms of hoarding, as well as the components of effective treatment for this disorder. He will also discuss common obstacles in the treatment of hoarding and provide several case examples from his own work with people who hoard. Dr. Osborne is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of OCD, including hoarding, and has appeared as a therapist on the television show "Hoarding: Buried Alive" on TLC. All are invited. Psychology majors are especially encouraged to attend.
Special Lecture
Remembering Norway Events
Dr. Claudia Berguson, Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies, PLU
"My Little Country': Norway's Responses to Terror"
September 19, 2011
5:00 p.m. - Red Square and Regency Room - Ceremony and Reflection
7:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Sponsored by Scandinavian Cultural Center and Languages and Literatures Faculty Colloquium Series
State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series
Rand Ballard, Senior Executive Vice President
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Customer Officer
MedAssets
September 21, 2011
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Morken Center Room 103
Rand Ballard serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Customer Officer for MedAssets, Inc. His responsibilities include developing leadership, training, and accountability for all the various functions for MedAssets businesses. Prior to joining MedAssets, Ballard's most recent experience was at Cardinal Healthcare. He was accountable for implementing contracts with subsequent annual sales of $1.6 Billion. Ballard holds an MBA from Pacific Lutheran University. He was a dean's list undergraduate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with concentration in nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, and business law.
In addition to his position at MedAssets, Ballard serves as Chairman of Healthcare Industry Supply Chain Institute, is Immediate Past Chair of Healthcare Industry Group Purchasing Associate (HIGPA), was Chairman of the Board of the Meals on Wheels Association of America Foundation, and is Vice President of Health Careers Foundation, a non-profit organization addressing the employment needs of our returning veterans, under the Hire Heroes USA program.
Special Lecture
Flowing River, Pooled Spring: Lutheran Perspectives on the Limited Gift of Water
A conference for all persons who care for the future of the earth
September 29, 2011
The one thing necessary for life -- fresh and drinkable water--is rapidly becoming a scarce resource throughout the world. Indeed, without water, there is no flourishing life in the fields, among earth's creatures, and within the human community.
For those of us who live in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by fresh-water lakes, rivers, streams, glaciers, and aquifers, a water crisis may be the last thing on our minds. Yet according to the United Nations Environment Program, 200 scientists in 50 countries have identified water shortage and global warming as the two primary and urgent challenges of the new millennium. Indeed, humans have less than 0.08% of the earth's water available for use, yet over the next decade, human use will increase by at least 40%.
At the same time, humans use approximately 70% of the available fresh water supply for agriculture. but by 2020, we will need close to 20% more water than is available if all humans are to have sufficient food. If we continue in current patterns of water consumption--in the United States and abroad--many more millions will go to bed hungry and thirsty each night.
This increasingly limited gift is the focus of this first Lutheran Studies Conference at Pacific Lutheran University. Participants will explore the theological, sacramental, and ethical sources which shape contemporary concerns for the gift and use of water.
Registration
While the conference is free and open to the public, registration is required. Send an email (with your intent to attend afternoon sessions) by Monday, September 26, to Kim Baldwin at baldwika@plu.edu or 253-535-7320. For more information on the Lutheran Studies Conference, contact Dr. Samuel Torvend at torvensa@plu.edu or 253-535-8106.
The Seventh Annual
Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History
Peter R. Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History
and Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 3, 2011
7:30 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Peter R. Coclanis will give the Seventh Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. This year the Benson Lecture is entitled "Would Slavery Have Survived Without the Civil War: A Counterfactual Analysis." The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a reception of light food and drinks. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
Special Lecture
Egyptology Lecture
Dr. Donald Ryan
"Ancient Egypt: The Greatest Discoveries You've Probably Never Heard Of"
October 5, 2011
7:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Most people are familiar with the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the Great Pyramid, the Rosetta Stone, and a handful of other iconic symbols of Egypt's ancient past. But 200 years of exploration have revealed much more that is likewise well-deserving of broader attention. Dr. Donald P. Ryan (PLU Division of Humanities) will share some of the amazing arechaeological discoveries in Egypt that have mostly escaped public notice. The lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Division of Humanities.
For more information, call the Division of Humanities at 253-535-7228.
Special Lecture
Philosophy Department Lecture Series
Dr. Hannah Love, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
"The Real Problem of Sex Selection: PGD, Expectation, and Autonomy"
October 6, 2011
7:30 p.m. - University Center 133
Concerns about sex-selective abortaion, and its role in enabling sex and gender discrimination, have recently increased in public and academic dialogues regarding biomedical ethics. Yet even though the technology of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is also used for sex selection, it typically escapes these discussions unmentioned, unquestioned, and unevaluated.
By drawing important distinctions between PGD and other reproductive technologies, we can establish what is tryly objectionable about non-medical sex selection and therefore how to clearly ground policies regulating and restricting this application of PGD without threatening generally accepted rights to reproductive choice.
Hannah Love arrived at PLU in the fall of 2007 with her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Virginia, and primarily teaches a variety of ethics courses (including Biomedical Ethics, Business Ethics, and the Philosophy of Love & Sex). Currently her research focus is on reproductivethics, including the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for non-medical sex selection and the limits of patient autonomy as a justificatory concept for various reproductive technologies.
Free and open to the public. For more information: johnsogs@plu.edu or 253-535-8306.
Special Lecture
Department of Psychology Colloquium Series
Jillian McLellan, Seattle Pacific University
"Choosing a Career Path: Spotlight on Industrial/Organizational Psychology"
October 7, 2011
2:00 p.m. - Xavier 201
There will be two parts to this talk, each with the goal of helping students choose a career path. Frst, Ms. McLellan will describe her career journey, starting with her time at PLU. She will discuss actions that students can take to help them decide which career path is right for them. In the second part, Ms. McLellan will highlight one career path that students might want to consider, which is in industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology. She will discuss the field of I/O psychology, including what it is and the types of available jobs.
All are invited. Psychology majors are especially encouraged to attend.
State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series
Gregory Gilbert
Chief Executive Officer
Americas Institutional, Russell Investments
October 11, 2011
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Morken Center Room 103
Gregory Gilbert is CEO of Russell Investments Institutional business which includes Russell's Institutional asset management, consulting, and implementation businesses. Prior to this role, Gilbert was Managing Director, President and CEO for Russell's global trading firm, Russell Implementation Services Inc. Gilbert's group included all Russell trading functions, the global implementation business, and the direct asset management business. In this capacity, Gilbert was responsible for the global growth, operations, risk management and associate management of Russell's direct investment line, implementation businesses and trading. In his roles at Russell, Gilbert has focused his efforts on building world-class teams of highly motivated, client-focused managers and associates, and robust, state-of-the-art, scalable business systems. Prior to taking on the CEO position, Greg was the chief operating officer for the implementation business. In addition, Greg was an officer of Russell's U.S. mutual fund management company and a director for Russell Implementation SErvices Ltd (London). Greg is a member of Russell's executive committee and Global Leadership Forum.
Gilbert began his career with Russell as the global director for commission management. Prior to Russell, he was a principal engineer in the electric power industry. Gilbert also served as an instructor pilot for an air service company in Atlanta, Georgia, and an FAA flight and ground instructor at the University of North Dakota. Gilbert has his B.S. in Aeronautics from University of North Dakota, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from University of Washington. He is a Licensed Registered Representative, FINRA Series 7 and 24 and a Licensed Professional Engineer in Washington and Oregon.
Special Lecture
Philosophy Department Lecture Series
Dr. John D. Caputo, the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University
"The Two Types of Continental Philosophy of Religion"
October 13, 2011
7:00 p.m. - Ingram 100
Professor John D. Caputo will deliver this lecture on the kinds of philosophy of religion from the European tradition of philosophy.
Dr. Caputo is a hybrid philosopher/theologian who engages texts important to understanding the human condition as it is often related to questions of God. His past books discuss both the history of philosophy (Aquinas), and its contemporary practitioners (Derrida, Heidegger). He has written books that break new ground on the understanding between "faith and reason," such as his books The Weakness of God and What Would Jesus Deconstruct? Most recently, he has been working with church groups like Ikon and the Emergent Church as a way to bring academic philosophy and theology to a more general public.
Free and open to the public. For more information: johnsogs@plu.edu or 253-535-8306.
Special Lecture
Religion Department Public Lecture
Dr. Erik Hammerstrom, Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religion, PLU
"How China Got 'Religion': Ideology and Social Change in Early 20th Century China"
October 19, 2011
7:30 p.m. - Xavier 201
The status of religion and religious practice in China is a perennial hot topic: the issue of Tibet, the arrest of members of Christian house churches, and the general resurgence of religion in this once-Marxist nation are just a few of the themes that appear repeatedly in the Western media. Prior to 1900, there was no word for "religion" in China, and the practices of religion were understood in very different ways than they are today. In this talk, Dr. Hammerstrom will describe the way in which the modern idea of religion was constructed in China in the decades before the ascendancy of Communism, and what some of the implications of this new understanding of religion have been for Chinese religious institutions since.
For more information, please contact Dr. Marit Trelstad at marit.trelstad@plu.edu or 253-535-7232.
The Fall 2011 Sidney Rittenberg Seminars
Dr. Sidney Rittenberg
Seminar 1
How the World's Oldest Country is Reinventing Itself as the Newest and what this means for the changing world order
October 27, 2011
7:00-9:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Seminar 2
What Rights Do Humans Have in China and America?
November 3, 2011
7:00-9:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Seminar 3
Why Are You in College: A cross-cultural, coss-generational conversation
November 10, 2011
7:00-9:00 p.m. - Regency Room
These three seminars, with distinguished Visiting Guest Professor Sidney Rittenberg provide PLU students and faculty with an unusual opportunity to spend some time with a truly historic figure and an international scholar, businessman and builder of understanding between Chinese and Americans. More information and Professor Rittenberg's profile is available by clicking here.
The seminars each focus on a topic of particular interest chosen by Professor Rittenberg, and reflect his continued desire to foster understanding, particularly among students. We encourage students, faculty and student organizations to consider participating in these. Inquiries can be sent to Gregory Youtz, Music and Chinese Studies: youtzgl@plu.edu
Special Lecture
Department of Psychology Colloquium Series
Dr. Kelly M. Goedert, Associate Professor, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
"Prism Adaptation in the Treatment of Post-Stroke Neglect: Mechanisms and Outcomes"
October 28, 2011
2:00 p.m. - Xavier 201
Prism adaptation is emerging as a promising treatment for the post-stroke disorder of left spatial neglect, a disorder in which a person fails to orient or initiate action towards stimuli in the left side of space. In this talk Professor Goedert will share data from her research team suggesting that prism adaptation ameliorates neglect symptoms by acting on motor-intentional brain-behavior systems rather than on perceptual-attentional systems. This specificity of prism adaptation to motor-intentional aiming systems may explain the failure of prism adaptation to work in some patients and for its failure to improve performance on some tasks. All are invited. Psychology majors are especially encouraged to attend.
Sixth Annual Knutson Lecture
Dr. Marcus Borg
Speaking Christian: Reclaiming Christian Language
November 2, 2011
7:30 p.m. - Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Russell Music Center
Dr. Marcus Borg will lecture on Speaking Christian: Reclaiming Christian Language. He writes, "Religions are like languages: to be Christian includes speaking and understanding Christian. Yet in our time, Christian language is becoming increasingly unfamiliar and even more seriously often misunderstood because of a common framework that shapes and distorts its meaning. This lecture will name the problem and present an alternative and more biblical framework for understanding 'speaking Christian'."
Dr. Borg is the Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University. He now serves as Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Borg enjoys an international reputation as a Jesus scholar, a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, and author of thirteen popular books on Jesus of Nazareth in addition to many scholarly works and articles. Dr. Borg holds the bachelor's degree from Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) and the doctoral degree from Oxford University (Oxford, England).
The lecture is free and open to the public, however, for those who wish to attend the lecture, tickets must be picked up at the Concierge Desk in PLU's University Center prior to November 2. They will be distributed on a first-come, first served basis. Tickets cannot be reserved by telephone or email.
See Marcus Borg, Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored (HaprerOne, 2011)
For more information, please contact Dr. Samuel Torvend, torvensa@plu.edu or 253-535-8106.
Visiting Writer Series
Nikki McClure
November 3, 2011
3:30 p.m. - Writer's Story at Garfield Book Company
7:00 p.m. - Reading in Regency Room
For more information please contact Dr. Alison Mandaville, mandavam@plu.edu or 253-538-5670.
State Farm MBA Executive Leadership Series
Stephen Anderson, PT, DPT
Chief Executive Officer
Therapeutic Associates
November 16, 2011
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Morken Center Room 103
Steve Anderson is the Chief Executive Officer of Therapeutic Associates (TAI) which is the physical therapy company that consists of 70 outpatient clinics in Washington, Oregon and Idaho and 2 major hospital contracts in Southern California. The company was formed in 1952. Anderson is only the third CEO, and has held this position for 13 years. As a physical therapist, Anderson started his career in Portland, Oregon. In 1983 he opened the first TAI clinic in the state of Washington in West Seattle. As an owner/director of West Seattle Physical Therapy for 16 years, Anderson was elected by his peers to become the CEO of the company in 1998. Under his leadership, the company has doubled in size and now generates $50 million per year in revenue. He is active nationally in the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and was the President of the The Private Practice Section of APTA for 6 years. In 2010, Anderson was awarded the Robert G. Discuss Service Award which is the most prestigious award theSection gives out annually to a physical therapist.
Anderson earned his bachelor's degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1979. He went on to physical therapy school at Northwestern University in Chicago. He has been a physical therapist for 31 years and has worked for TAI his entire career. He is a co-owner of Therapeutic Associates along with multiple partners. He resides in Bellevue, Washington with his wife Sharon.
The Thirty-eighth Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture
February 16, 2012
7:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Dr. Michael Adas
"The Subaltern's Lament: Misbegotten Wars and the Decline of Great Powers"
Professor Michael Adas holds the Abraham E. Voorhees and the board of Governors' Chairs at Rutgers University. he received his Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin in 1971. he has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has won the Warren Susman Teaching Award as well as the Teacher of the Year Award at Rutgers. His book Machines as a Measure of Men won the NJ-NEH Book Award and the Dexter Prize for the outstanding book in the history of technology. He has also published monographs on colonialism in Asia and global technology; co-authored Global History
textbooks; and edited collections of articles on technology as well as global history. he is currently working on the topic of World War I and its global impact with book projects including A Grave Dug in Flanders: World War I and the Crisis of the European World Order for Cambridge University Press, and Misbegotten Wars: Trench Stalemate, Vietnam Quagmire and the Decline of British and American Global Power for Harvard University Press.
The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a reception of light food and drinks.
The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. For more information call 253-535-7595.
Special Lecture
Philosophy Department Food Symposium
February 21, 2012
11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. - University Center Room 133
Various Speakers
The last decade has seen a dramatic growth of interest in food, from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to the movie Food, Inc., to the food Network. If you're interested in food--aesthetics, ethics, politics, or nutritiion--consider attending the Philosophy Department's Food Symposium. Starting at 11:00 a.m. on February 21, 2012, in UC 133, panels will present on topics, such as The Chemistry of Farming, How to Know What Goes Into Your Food, Feeding the Public, Buying and Eating Locally, Food, Family, and Ethics; Food at PLU, Eating Animals, and Food Passions. These panel discussions will be folowed by a key note address at 7:00 p.m. in the U.C. Regency Room. The key note topic will be, What Makes Food Good: Three Problems in food Ethics. The key note speaker is Dr. Paul B. Thompson of Michigan State University. Dr. Thompson will discuss three key problems: 1) the ethics of global hunger, 2) the ethics of food consumption as it relates to personal and public health, and 3) the ethical underpinnings of "the food movement" and its attraction to local and ethically motivated supply chains. Although these three issues present distinct challenges, they are connected to one another in surprising ways. Approaches to food ethics that focus narrowly on one set of issues may find that they have adopted strategies that put us in an awkward position with respect to others.
Panel presenters include: Holly Foster, Zestful Gardens; Justin Lytle, Assistant Professor, PLU Chemistry Department; Romey Haberle, Assistant Professor, PLU Biology Department; Hannah Love, Assistant Professor, PLU Philosophy; Kyle Wnuk, owner and chef, Marrow Kitchen Bar; Ann Farrell, Director of Development, Farrelli's Pizza; Carrie Little, Farm Manager, Mother Earth Farm; Katy Guinn, PLU student; Erin McGinnis, Director of Culinary and Dining Services, PLU; Danny Palmer, PLU student; Joe Markholt, partner, Salmon Creek Meats; Erin McKenna, Professor, PLU Philosophy Department; and Glenn Kuehn, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Marshfield, Philosophy Department.
For additional information, please contact: Erin McKenna (mckenna@plu.edu / 253-535-7213)
Special Lecture
Religion Department Lecture
March 7, 2012
7:30 p.m. - Xavier Hall, Room 201
Agnes Choi
"Did Jesus Believe in God?"
Powell and Heller 2012 Holocaust Conference
March 8 & 9, 2012
Conference - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Lemkin Lecture - Mary Baker Russell Music Center - Lagerquist Hall
Lemkin Essay Winners Reception TBA
For more information and to register visit: www.plu.edu/holocaustconference
The Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Lecture in Education
March 15, 2012
7:00 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education
"Catching Up or Leading the Way"
Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE). He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education. Until December, 2010, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence.
Zhao has published over 20 books and 100 articles. His most recent books include Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and the Handbook of Asian Education. He has also developed computer software, including the award-winning ZON (http://enterzon.com), the world's first massively multi-layer online role-playing game for studying Chinese.
Special Lecture
Ingram Lecture
April 4, 2012
7:30 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Dr. Daniel Kent
"Killing Tigers, Killing Cows: The Karma of Killing Animals in the Sri Lankan Civil War"
Does a soldier receive negative karma for killing during battle? This is a question asked by many of the Buddhist soldiers who fought in Sri Lanka's recently concluded cilvil war. While those familiar with Buddhist virtues of non-violence might answer with an emphatic "yes," during the Sri Lankan conflict, Buddhist soldiers and monks were divided in their opinions. Some argued that soldiers do not kill for personal reasons rooted in desire, hatred, or delusion; but rather with the positive intention to protect the country. Others, however, argued that any act of killing necessarily entails a negative intention and, thus, produces negative karma. While soldiers and monks were divided when I asked them about killing humans, almost all agreed that kiling animals would produce unfavorable consequences. This talk will introduce Buddhist arguments about killing and karma and investigate this double standard, which seems to place more value on animals' lives than it does on human lives.
Daniel Kent is a visiting professor of Asian Religions at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He received his Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia in 2008. Professor Kent works primarily in Sri Lanka, where he has lived for over four years. Professor Kent is primarily an ethnographer, writing about contemporary issues in Sri Lankan Buddhism. He specializes in Buddhist ethics, Buddhism and war and innovations in Buddhist beliefs and practice. Professor Kent grew up in Silverdale, Washington and attended high school in Lakewood, Washington. For additional information contact: Erik Hammerstrom, Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, PLU (253-535-7225)
Earth Day Presentation
April 17, 2012
7:30 p.m. - Scandinavian Cultural Center
Dr. Michael Pavel
"Connecting to Everything on Earth: Its Land, Waters, and Peoples (Plant, Animal, and Human)"
Dr. Michel Pavel carries the traditional name of ChiXapkaid and is an enrolled member of the Skokomish Tribal Nation. He is an honored 2007 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award finalist for his work as a Coast Salish traditional bearer, professor of Education Studies, traditional artist, researcher, author, environmental conservationist and community leader. Pavel has worked throughout his life to bridge the divide between Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge systems of contemporary society.
His talk will draw insight from indigenous traditions to discuss how people connect to places, and how intimately knowing a local place helps us to understand and connect with the world as a whole. The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer period and is free and open to the public.