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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).  

“Revered among aficionados of Persian classical and folk music, Sahba Motallebi is a virtuoso performer on the long-necked stringed instruments known as tar and setar. ” – LA Weekly

The Mid-Atlantic - Eurasia Business Council is pleased to invite you to its Doing Business in Eurasia seminar series that will be taking place throughout 2016 in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and New York.

SUKHISHILI has performed for fifty million people in eighty-eight countries on five continents. It was a headline attraction with New York City Ballet for the George Balanchine Centennial. It has previously performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden Albert Hall, the Rome Coliseum and La Scala where it was enthusiastically welcomed with rousing ovation and a record-setting number of curtain calls.

This historical documentary walks you through the evolution of the Slow Food Movement, started in Italy by Carlo Petrini. Launched from his tiny hometown of Bra Italy (27,000 inhabitants) the Slow Food movement has grown to become a global life-style and political phenomenon that boasts a network of over 170 chapters in 150 countries. Our Guest Speaker Andrea Canepari will provide us with some background on the evolution of the movement, its roots in Italy that now have inspired chapters around the world.

The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy welcomes you to its final talk of the 2015 Spring semester! Jonathan Winkler, "The Historical Roots of the Snowden Revelations"

Why did the Soviet Union collapse? The dissolution of the USSR is particularly puzzling because China -- also a Marxist-Leninist autocracy -- managed to ditch its centrally-planned economy while maintaining an authoritarian political structure. Christopher Miller’s research in Soviet archives has found that Soviet officials closely followed Chinese policy, and directly copied many Chinese reforms.