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Join us at GSU’s Robinson College of Business Global Professionals Mixer to:

• Network with current and future global business leaders
• Explore worldwide careers and educational opportunities
• Learn what it takes to advance your international business career

Spring is here! The best time for some after work drinks.
Interested in expanding your network and connecting with other young professionals, entrepreneurs and small business owners?
Join the FACC and Alliance Française for the 10th Young Professionals After Work Drink, at Le Bistro, a Frenchy-European bar on Canton Street in Roswell.
Three of the FACC Board Members will join the event: David Aferiat, FACC President and Managing Partner, Trade Ideas LLC; Phil Jafflin, Executive Director, Cognegy; and Amy Hudnall, Deputy Director, Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace, Georgia Department of Economic Development.
FACC members, Alliance Française members, non-members, Francophone and Francophile professionals are all welcome to join us at Le Bistro.

Join the FACC-Atlanta Chapter and learn how to succeed in your job search.
Having a hard time finding a job you want? You may be committing one or more of the common mistakes made by most job seekers, we call them the deadly sins of the job search.
Or you just want to better understand the new job market.
Whether you are unhappily employed and considering a move, short or long term unemployed, recent graduate, or coming out of retirement, this event is for you!
Judi Adams will provide insightful tips and insider information on the job search, and will guide you through this journey to help ensure your strategy to get the right job is successful!

SACC-Georgia's Member Appreciation Reception is in honor, appreciation and recognition of your great support, engagement and contributions to the Chamber. This is a great opportunity for all our international friends to get to know the Swedish-American community in Atlanta.

Old members, current members, potential future members and supporters and friends of SACC-GA are all invited to participate in an evening of networking, hors d'oeuvres and refreshments as we embark on another successful year together, at the beautiful office of corporate member Arnall Golden Gregory.

Member Appreciation Reception: 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

For more information: http://conta.cc/1QKNApy

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes,
SACC-Georgia

SACC-Georgia's Member Appreciation Reception is in honor, appreciation and recognition of your great support, engagement and contributions to the Chamber. This is a great opportunity for all our international friends to get to know the Swedish-American community in Atlanta.

Old members, current members, potential future members and supporters and friends of SACC-GA are all invited to participate in an evening of networking, hors d'oeuvres and refreshments as we embark on another successful year together, at the beautiful office of corporate member Arnall Golden Gregory.

Member Appreciation Reception: 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

For more information: http://conta.cc/1QKNApy

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes,
SACC-Georgia

The Master of Science in International Policy Management is hosting an Open House. Come and join us to get more information about this online program at the third largest university in Georgia.

The Consulate General of Switzerland in partnership with the Center for Civil and Human Rights is organizing an interactive program on sustainability in urban spaces on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at the Center. Representatives of the cities of Atlanta and Geneva will discuss ways of how to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This event is part of the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of the SWISS TOUCH campaign in the United States.

On the 7h of December, the doors open at Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta for the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, Georgia's 34th Annual Lucia Gala. The Gala is a premium event gathering 150 attendees, including members, partners, as well as local and national officials within the Swedish-American community in Georgia and the Southeast. At the event, delicacies from the Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord will be served as well as various Scandinavian beverages. Attendees will also be able to enjoy a traditional Lucia procession performance, schnapps singing, dancing to a live band, a Silent Auction, and much more.

Old Kingdom Egypt is famous for its pyramids and kings, but beyond the royal monuments, how was the state actually run? Who had power and how was it being used? In a lecture titled "Power in Death: Mastabas and Provincial Elite Power in Old Kingdom Egypt," Dr. Jessica Tomkins, visiting assistant professor of history at Oglethorpe University, examines the role of the elite in the provinces through the lens of death and shows that their power was not only active during their lifetime but continued passively in death. By building monumental tombs with deliberate material and textual choices, the provincial elite used their tombs to not only commemorate the power they held within their communities during their lifetime, but to ensure the continuation of that power once they were deceased.

The inexpensive and widely produced lithographic prints of Raja Ravi Varma featured in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine made it possible for many families to have images of the Hindu deities in their homes for the first time. After exploring these images with teaching artist Gauri Misra-Desphande, children will make paneer, a homemade Indian cheese, and then sweeten it with cardamom and honey before eating it! Drop-off workshop for children ages 8 to 12 years.

Fee: $15 for members; $20 for nonmembers. Space is limited, and online registration is required.

The sweeping rhythms and infectious energy of jazz and gospel music intertwine three works making their Atlanta Ballet debut. Featuring members of the Spelman College Glee Club, Lydia Pace of the Anointed Pace Sisters, Golden Gate Singers, music by the iconic Dave Brubeck, and more!

In a conversation titled “Guising as God,” Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger of Emory’s Department of Religion and Harshita Mruthinti Kamath of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies discuss the practice of vesham, using clothing and ornamentation to guise and disguise, across a range of Indian contexts. Drawing on their individual fieldwork, Drs. Flueckiger and Kamath will focus on the transformative potential of vesham, including the possibility of becoming god. The conversation will conclude with a consideration of the transformative possibilities of vesham in the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India: The Everyday Occurrence of the Divine, including the photography of Manjari Sharma and the ornamentation of the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.

The next installment of ECMSA Beethoven 2020 features Sissi Zhang on violin, Roy Harran on cello and William Ransom on piano. Beethoven works to be performed are the Variations for Cello, Violin Sonata No.3 and the Romance in G.

ECMSA “Beethoven 2020” is a major year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Master’s birth featuring concerts, masterclasses, and lectures. Featured in concert will be the complete Cycles of 16 String Quartets, 10 Piano and Violin Sonatas, 5 Cello and Piano Sonatas, and the 32 Piano Sonatas performed by Emory faculty, students and guest artists.

Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Lowergate Parking Deck

In this story from Kerala, India, children will hear about some of the amazing feats of Hanuman, monkey god and a hero of the Indian epic the Ramayana, before exploring the exhibition Transcendent Deities of India and another gallery that may be surprising, then head to the studio to make jewel-encrusted crowns like Hanuman’s!

For ages 3 to 6 years and accompanying adults. This program is free and open to the public.

As part of the 2020 celebration of Beethoven, ECMSA welcomes you to observe piano master classes led by Jasmin Arakawa, Arthur Greene, Rachelle McCabe, and Jonathan Shames. Registration is not required.

Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Lowergate South Parking Deck

Want to ride your bike on closed streets through downtown Atlanta? Or, enjoy a fantastic start from the 50-yard line of Mercedes-Benz Stadium? You can do both as part of VeloCity, a cycling event supporting Grady Hospital. Being held for the third year on Saturday, May 2, this event has something for everyone. Fully-supported routes range from 7 to 100 miles with plenty of rest stops along the way – and for those who don’t ride the roads, there are indoor cycling classes with a live DJ throughout the day.

No matter what ride you choose, all participants are invited to celebrate their success at the VeloCity Finish Line Festival at The Home Depot Backyard where you will find great food, cold beer, live music, and even a post-ride massage!

Participants pay a registration fee and are asked to raise funds to support Grady’s lifesaving care. For more information visit: www.velocityatlanta.com

Join the ECMSA for its first “SonataThon” recital, tackling the 32 Piano Sonatas composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

2 p.m. Todd Qualls, Jasmin Arakawa, Arthur Greene, Stephanie Shames, Irene Chen, Nathan Trinkl, Alejandro Arzu
5 p.m. Robert Henry, Elizabeth Sun, Philip Thomson, Sergio Gallo, Jennifer Zheng
8 p.m. Philip Thomson, Jasmin Arakawa, Julie Coucheron, Rachelle McCabe, Jonathan Shames

ECMSA “Beethoven 2020” is a major year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Master’s birth featuring concerts, masterclasses, and lectures. Featured in concert will be the complete Cycles of 16 String Quartets, 10 Piano and Violin Sonatas, 5 Cello and Piano Sonatas, and the 32 Piano Sonatas performed by Emory faculty, students and guest artists.

Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Lowergate Parking Deck

Enjoy afternoon tea and scones as Curator of African Art Amanda Hellman discusses how Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, traveled to Africa.

Join Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen for a gallery talk titled ‘“Not the Classical Ideal‘: Unconventional Bodies and Bad Behaviors in Greek and Roman Art.”

This event is free and open to the Emory community and the public, but space is limited and online registration is required.

Heather Hyde Minor, Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame will present a lecture on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Lost Book." Piranesi was an 18th century artist famous for his architectural etchings of Rome.

Recommended Parking:
Oxford Road Parking Deck
Fishburne Parking Deck

Anthony Grafton considers the meaning and relevance of margin notes found in Renaissance texts. In this period, educated readers went through their texts pen in hand. They underlining passages, adding references to names and short summaries in the margins, and interpreting or responding to the text. Most marginalia were verbal. But scholars from Petrarch in the fourteenth century to John Dee in the sixteenth also made drawings of many kinds in the margins of their books. This lecture presents some of their work and argues that it often—though not always—had an interpretative purpose.

Recommended parking: Fishburne Parking Deck, Oxford Road Parking Deck

Join InterCultural Atlanta's three special guests: 1. Dr. Kwesi Ewoodzi, founder of Culture Beyond Borders (CBB), is a Ghanaian-American with a PhD in Sociology, focusing on intercultural exchange. 2. Teni-Ola Ogunjobi, founder of Intercultural Communities Project, an organization working to bridge, build, and sustain intercultural communities by providing education, cross-cultural exchange opportunities, community engagement, and leadership skills. 3. Kwabena Boateng, founder and President of the African Diaspora Nation, an organization dedicated to helping build a pan-African and pan-human network of people who embody the identity of a guiding light for a global renaissance of Love in action.

Diasporas involve the movement of particular people to several places at once or overtime. The African Diaspora is one of the most active communities of citizens outside of their countries. The Year of Return in 2019, in Ghana, was linked to the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans in the Americas. For our conversation about the African Diaspora and some Initiatives that Connect the Year of Return to Ghana.

Transportation and Parking:
Peachtree Center is the nearest Marta station GSU- Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research (CULTR).
Parking could be on the street at parking spaces using the app ParkMobile or at GSU's closest parking T-Deck (43 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303) for a $10.00 fee.

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South Metro Development Outlook (SMDO) Conference, the largest event of its kind in metro Atlanta, highlights continued economic development, planning, infrastructure, transportation, and related issues facing Clayton, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Henry, and South Fulton Counties, as well as the City of Atlanta's thriving international community. Now in its 18th year, SMDO’s theme is “Vision 2020.” More than 600 attendees are expected.

SMDO includes a view of upcoming economic development activities and topics that engage attendees by discussing trends, strengths, challenges and opportunities in South Atlanta communities. This year promises to be an exciting conference as it explores transformative development projects including Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s expansion and development, Aerotropolis Atlanta Alliance, and updates on new economic development activity in the region. Additionally, it will examine the impact of Smart Cities and Autonomous Vehicles on South Metro’s economic development, spark thought-provoking dialogue on South Metro Transportation, and provide an opportunity to hear from the newly elected Mayor of the City of College Park, Bianca Motley-Broom.

Admission is $80 for advance registration and $90 for onsite registration.

GDEcD’s International Trade Division is offering a complimentary webinar highlighting opportunities for Georgia companies looking to enter, re-enter or expand their business in China. Experts from GDEcD’s China office based in Shanghai will address topics including:
• Phase I US-China Trade Agreement
• Implications for Georgia Companies
• Entering the Market & Doing Business in China
China consistently ranks as Georgia’s third-largest export market overall; for key strategic industries like agricultural products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, China is Georgia’s second-largest export market. As wages rise, China’s middle class is rapidly expanding, and this steep growth in purchasing power is expected to continue. China’s economic maturation means an increasing demand for imported products, and selling into China has become easier as the country has made massive investments in infrastructure. Join us on Thursday, February 27th to find out how your Georgia business can take advantage of the growing opportunities in China!

***Please Register by Tuesday, February 25th.

Mercer University Atlanta Campus will host high school and college students from across the Southeast for the 15th annual Japan Academic Challenge and 29th Annual Japanese Speech Contest on March 7, 2020, beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Atlanta.
The two events, which will take place in Day Hall, are co-organized by the Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese, the Japan-America Society of Georgia, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Georgi a, and supported by the Consulate-General of Japan in Atlanta.
The Japan Academic Challenge is a quiz-show style competition that tests high school students’ knowledge of Japanese culture, history, grammar and language with four levels of competition. The Japanese Speech Contest involves high school and college students presenting memorized presentations entirely in Japanese with various divisions of competition.