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Literature. Prof. Simpson-Younger comes to us most recently from Luther College, our Iowa ELCA cousin, where she served as a visiting faculty member. She received her PhD from UW-Madison in 2012 and her research focuses on acts of watching vulnerable bodies in the early modern period. A reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Simpson-Younger is also very interested in questions of book history, and she  integrates manuscript evidence (including an actual sleeping  potion recipe) into many of her

project is the subject of a new episode of the History Channel show Modern Marvels, called “Panama Canal Supersized,” which aired in April. The canal project will be “one of the engineering wonders of the world,” just like the original canal, Krause said. “It’s the largest civil-engineering project in the world today and will double the shipping traffic over the current level when complete.” Krause said the project also: includes the largest gates ever designed and constructed (each weighing 8,000,000

-Semitism. Here is a podcast of that conversation. Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education Music Of Remembrance Listen to the full discussion PLU professors Samuel Torvend and Beth Griech-Polelle discuss Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism, Lutheran higher education and PLU’s upcoming Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Torvend, Ph.D., serves as a professor of religion and is the university chair in Lutheran studies at PLU. Griech-Polelle, Ph.D., is associate professor of history and

for her for many reasons: there is a course offered on Ancient Greek which is important to studying the New Testament, Greece has such a rich religious history, CYA has a balance of structure and independence, and it fit perfectly with her major and minor. While in Athens, Erika was able to take classes in Modern Greek (which she was able to practice by going to cafés and talking to locals) and Ancient Greek, a monotheistic religion course, a religion class on Orthodox Christianity, a philosophy

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Francis and Albert Knight in Manchuria: U.S. Diplomat, Merchant, and Treaty Ports in 19th Century China, Shuhua Fan University of Scranton Three Global Initiatives and China’s Vision for a New World Order: A Critical Discourse Analysis of China’s Three Foreign Policy Documents, Weidong Zhang Winona State University 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break 10:15-11:45am Conference Panels 2A and 2B Panel 2A: Topics in Chinese History and Law (Hauge Administration Building 101) Chair: Jingyi Song Li Dazhao and the