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Attend this zoom webinar with award-winning journalist Trudy Rubin. Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of The Inquirer’s editorial board. Her column runs regularly in many other newspapers around the United States.

Slava Ukrayini! Join The Philadelphia Citizen for a morning with MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi, who has just returned from six weeks of reporting from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Velshi's reports were explanatory and moving, bearing witness to barbarism and contextualizing tragedy. Now he'll fill you in on what war zone reporting is like off-camera—and how it's changed him and should change us. In conversation with Citizen co-founder Larry Platt.

The current pandemic has slowed the global economy. It has exposed the interdependence inherent in global supply chains. Will things snap back when the concerns over the virus subside? Join us for a discussion with Thorsten Benner, co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute, and Shannon O’Neil, the Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about globalization in volatile times. 

Citizen Diplomacy International Philadelphia is partnering with the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia for a very special conversation with Pier Attinio Forlano, Consul General of Italy.

Join us to hear Pier's reflections on Italy's COVID-19 response; the economic impact of the crisis; and what Italy has learned as a result.

What is the legacy of the Cold War? Three historians debate. With comment by David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

What truly caused the Civil War? The Director of The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University, the Associate Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and a Park Ranger and historian for the Civil War Defenses of Washington will discuss.

On Wednesday, October 30th from 7–8:30 p.m., a panel of historians will convene on Villanova’s campus for our next event in our Revisionist History series, “Revising the Civil War.”

Media Impact Forum Radio Active Culture will explore the intersection between the arts, culture, and media, and will focus on the impact of creative expression through media. In particular, we’ll take a close look at the connection between radio and community, and how this format continues to promote civic dialogue to the broadest audiences possible. It brings funders from across the country together with media makers and analysts to share insights about the field’s most influential projects and trends.

Jim Acosta's latest book, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America, is his first-hand account about reporting on the current White House. Sponsored by Wilmington Trust.

About the Event:

With politics growing more polarized by the day, and the free press under attack from across the political spectrum, it’s no wonder we live in a world where #FakeNews has become a staple in today’s lexicon.