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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.”

"NEMTSOV", a film by Vladimir Kara-Murza (with English subtitles), presented by Vladimir Kara-Murza Q & A session with Vladimir Kara-Murza and Pavel Khodorkovskiy will follow the screening.

No registration necessary, all are welcome.

Please join the Atlantic Council and the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania for a unique lunch conversation on how to jump-start economic growth in Europe on November 3, 2016, featuring Mr. Mario Nava, Director at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA).  

Everywhere you turn, people are trying to figure out the Latino vote, and what it might mean in the November 2016 elections. What analysis has taken place — from the Latino generational rift in the Democratic party to the cultural identity arguments of the GOP — has been from the outside looking in at the Latino community nationally, regionally and locally.

New York Times journalist, Anemona Hartocollis, has been chosen as the National Resource Centers’ Global Distinguished Lecturer for 2016. In her talk she will discuss her experience following a group of migrants and refugees from the Greek Island of Kos to Denmark. She will explore the struggles, hopes and desires of people she met along the way and ponder the unknown outcomes of this mass exodus from the Middle East and North Africa.

​From neighborhood pop-up concerts to the formal stage, the Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change has been inspiring dialogue and action regarding domestic violence and other Liberian immigrant community concerns for the past two years.