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State of Asia Address 2024

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On the eve of our STATE OF ASIA flagship conference and just one day after the U.S. presidential election, we are proud to host the third State of Asia Address with leading thinker Adam Tooze. He will deliver a broad assessment on the key issues and challenges facing Asia today, provide a view into the future of the region, and analyze the implications of the U.S. election results for Asia. 

The State of Asia Address is hosted in collaboration with the University of Zurich at the prestigious Aula, where Winston Churchill gave his famous "Let Europe Arise" lecture in 1946. Prof. Dr. Michael Schaepman, President of the University of Zurich, will deliver welcome remarks.
 

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Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade. 
Adam was born in London. He grew up between England and Heidelberg Germany. Having received his BA in Economics from King’s College Cambridge in the summer of 1989, he had the good fortune to witness the end of the Cold War in Berlin, where he began his postgraduate studies. He went on to take his PhD from the London School of Economics. From 1996 to 2009 Adam taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. After Cambridge, Adam was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. Adam joined Columbia’s history department in the summer of 2015. In February 2011 Adam served as Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point. 

Adam is the author of several books. His first book, Statistics and the German State: the Making of Modern Economic Knowledge appeared in 2001, Wages of Destruction: the Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006, Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 in 2014 and Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy in 2021. For these books Adam won the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. He was shortlisted for the Kirkus review, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs and The Economist. Adam’s books have been translated into eleven languages.
Adam has appeared on PBS Television, BBC Radio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the History Channel, Swiss and French television. He has written and reviewed for numerous publication including the Financial Times, The Guardian, the New York Times, Die Zeit, Spiegel, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

 

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Michael Schaepman

Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Michael Schaepman (b. 1966) studied geography, experimental physics, and informatics at the University of Zurich and earned his doctoral degree at the Department of Geography of UZH in 1998. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, he returned to the UZH Department of Geography in 2000 to head up a research group. In 2003, Michael Schaepman was appointed professor of geographic information science at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University (Netherlands), where as of 2005, he was academic head of the Center for Geoinformation. He has been professor of remote sensing at the Department of Geography (Remote Sensing Laboratories) at the University of Zurich since 2009.
His research priorities include Earth observation, remote sensing, and spectroscopy to measure biodiversity from space. Michael Schaepman was appointed Vice Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2014 and 2016, respectively. From 2017 to 2020 he was the member of the Executive Board of the University responsible for the areas of research, innovation and academic career development. He has been President of the University of Zurich since 1 August 2020. (Picture: © Frank Bruederli)

 

This event is co-organized with the University of Zurich.

Event Details

In-person
Wed 06 Nov 2024
6:30 - 8 p.m.

University of Zurich
Aula, KOL-G-201
Rämistrasse 71
8006 Zürich

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