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NovaFest 2008 Kickoff Event Presenter(s): Default Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 4/1/2008 Air Time: 6:55 PM EST Length: 15 Minutes 37 Seconds Announcing NovaFest 2008 details	"Left to Tell" Immaculee Ilibagiza - Villanova One Book Presenter(s): Immaculee Ilibagiza Status: Available Air Date: 1/29/2008 Air Time: 7:00 PM EST Length: 1 Hour 33 Minutes 18 Seconds	Web 2.0 Presentation Presenter(s): Default Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 12/5/2007 Air Time: 11:00 PM EST Length: 1 Hour 1 Minute 39 Seconds
The Virtual World of Second Life in Education Presenter(s): Default Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 9/26/2007 Air Time: 2:10 PM CST Length: 1 Hour 4 Minutes 59 Seconds Learn more about the potential uses of Second Life in education. Presentation will include an actual visit to Second Life. Villanova welcomes Barton Pursel from Penn State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology	Academic Symposium - "Immigration Reform: Where Culture, Politics and Principle Meet" Presenter(s): Lecture Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 9/21/2007 Air Time: 3:00 PM CST Length: 1 Hour 54 Minutes 15 Seconds Academic Symposium - "Immigration Reform: Where Culture, Politics and Principle Meet" St. Thomas of Villanova Day Lecture Series	Commencement 2007 Presenter(s): Lecture Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 5/20/2007 Air Time: 10:00 AM EST Length: 2 Hours 32 Seconds
Human Trafficking Conference Presenter(s): Lecture Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 2/22/2007 Air Time: 3:00 PM EST Length: 2 Hours 2 Minutes 31 Seconds Between 14,500 and 17,500 men, women, and children are brought to the United States each year by force, fraud, or coercion, and are required to work in brothels, sweatshops, and oftentimes, private homes. This spring’s Symposium on Human Trafficking will provide an opportunity to learn about human trafficking and act to combat the problem.	Hotel Rwanda - A Lesson Yet to Be Learned Presenter(s): Lecture Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 2/13/2007 Air Time: 7:55 PM EST Length: 1 Hour 23 Minutes 43 Seconds For two months of his life, Paul Rusesabagina held insanity at bay as he watched his country fall into the grips of genocide in 1994. A Hutu manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda, he sheltered over 1,200 people, including his own Tutsi wife and children, saving their lives at a time when extremists massacred more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi and moderate Hutu tribes in just 100 days. Mr. Rusesabagina will visit Villanova on Tuesday, February 13th.	"Blood Done Sign My Name" Author Timothy Tyson Presenter(s): Timothy Tyson Status: Available Air Date: 1/25/2007 Air Time: 7:30 PM EST Length: 2 Hours 4 Minutes 41 Seconds Keynote Speaker, Dr. Timothy Tyson, will discuss his work on issues of race in the United States, particularly as presented in his text, Blood Done Sign My Name which was chosen for this year's One Book Villanova program.
The New Orleans Levees: The Worst Engineering Catastrophe in U.S. by Larry H. Roth and John E. Durrant Presenter(s): Lecture Presenter Status: Available Air Date: 11/16/2006 Air Time: 2:30 PM EST Length: 1 Hour 49 Minutes 33 Seconds Presented by Larry H. Roth and John E. Durrant A year after Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on New Orleans, ASCE's External Review Panel issued a “call for action” outlining a set of essential recommendations for overcoming the deficiencies in the region's hurricane protection system and instituting real change in its governance, management and engineering. Many of the lessons learned also have significant implications for communities throughout the nation.