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This year, our event will take place at Philadelphia Distilling, the first craft distillery in Pennsylvania since prohibition and producer of Bluecoat Gin. In 2017, the company renovated a 13,000 square foot warehouse into a beautiful event space including outdoor patio. During a tour of the distillery, our guests will learn about the batch-by-batch distilling process and get a close-up look of the hand-hammered copper pot stills and wooden fermentation vessels.

The Mid-Atlantic Euroasia Business Council will host all-day events honoring the 80th anniversary of Carl Lutz's great feat to save over 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust during his tenure as Vice-Consul at the Swiss Embassy following his arrival in Budabest Hungary. Email info@ma-rbc.org or call 484-467-7444 for more information!

The Middle East Center, co-sponsored by: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies Program are hosting The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. In The Moral Triangle, Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans in Berlin to explore these asymmetric relationships in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the private sphere.

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. 

Frankfurt: the financial centre, the European city, the traffic hub, the smallest metropolis in the world. When you think of the city on the Main, you think of the airport, the Paulskirche and Goethe, the Stock Exchange, the Book Fair and the unforgettable skyline. No doubt about it - Frankfurt brings opposites together in the most fruitful way.

Two rapidly rising stars make their Philadelphia Orchestra debuts. Seong-Jin Cho brings his prize-winning technique to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20. The engaging young David Akhram leads Beethoven's stirring Coriolan Overture and Brahm's majestic Symphony No. 1. 

Don't miss hearing this powerful musical partnership. The legendary Emanuel Ax solos in Brahms's stirring Second Piano Concerto, while Yannick and the Orchestra present Dvorák's Seventh Symphony.

The Mid-Atlantic-Eurasia Business Council (MAEBC/MARBC) is pleased to announce the Days of Eurasian-American Innovation Entrepreneurship Cooperation (RAVC Fall 2017), which will take place in Philadelphia, PA and the Mid-Atlantic Region from October 30th to November 9th.

“One of the most important showcases for contemporary finger-stylists.” – San Fransisco Chronicle

International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one another.