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“Oh, Dio.”

Everyone was a little groggy at 6.45 am on leaving AUR and Rome in the rain. 75 minutes later the sun was out and the team was in rural Umbria. To be precise, this was the first day of a 1-credit weekend archaeological class to make sense of two archaeological sites at Giove.

On the evening of February 6th, 2020, the American University of Rome and its Peace Studies graduate program hosted a screening of the celebrated documentary, Mother Fortress.

Many years ago J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series had reinforced and expanded tremendously this market, demonstrating that children and young adults were quite willing to follow engaging narratives even as book length soared, with each installment, well into the hundreds of pages.