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Asia Society Goes Digital: Check out Our Global Online Programs

Covering the Coronavirus: Where It All Started

WEBCAST: April 8 – Covering the Coronavirus: Where It All Started

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Webcast: Greening the BRI

WEBCAST: April 30 – Greening the Belt and Road in Central Asia

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Webcast: What is Africa doing in China

WEBCAST: May 7 – What Is China Doing in Africa?

Laos

WEBCAST: May 13 – How Does Laos Deal With Chinese Megaprojects?

Jessica DiCarlo
China Seminar

NOW ONLINE! – Seminar 2020: How to Understand Contemporary China

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Asia Society Goes Digital: Check out Our Global Online Programs

WEBCAST: April 8 – Covering the Coronavirus: Where It All Started

WEBCAST: April 30 – Greening the Belt and Road in Central Asia

WEBCAST: May 7 – What Is China Doing in Africa?

WEBCAST: May 13 – How Does Laos Deal With Chinese Megaprojects?

NOW ONLINE! – Seminar 2020: How to Understand Contemporary China

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Seminar: How to Understand Contemporary China

This intensive seminar featuring international and Swiss experts will provide you with the tools to analyze China’s rise and identify the opportunities that come with it.
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Annual Review 2019

Experts from 39 locations spoke at Asia Society Switzerland events this year and helped support our mission of strengthening the bridges of understanding between Asia, Switzerland, and the world.
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The Coming Tech Topography

Today, it’s clear that digital technology is one of the main areas in which the intensified competition between global powers is playing out. In a series of events, Asia Society Switzerland will explore different aspects of this topic.
Gen A 2020

Gen A 2020

Asia Society Switzerland sets up this one-year guided program, which will enable the next generation to engage with Asia on eye-level and build a community of young Asia-curious people in Switzerland.
Soliders Patrol
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China's Social Credit System

Transparent citizens, police state, totalitarian rule: China's Social Credit System (SCS) is the talk of the town. We set out to find out what it is all about, in an interview series, in a fact sheet, and in an event: a live taping of a Sinica Podcast.
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The Belt and Road Initiative

All of Asia Society Switzerland's content on China's Belt and Road: videos from the conference, our interview series, and reading recommendations.
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Our Week With Jeong Kwan

Whoever has been to Seoul before knows how hectic South Korea can be. Our week with Jeong Kwan, Korean Buddhist nun and cook, showed us a different side of her home country.
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India Now!

The world's largest democracy went to the polls in 2019. In a series of events Asia Society Switzerland has been asking: What has changed in India recently? What is about to change? And what needs changing urgently?
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Events

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[WEBCAST] Covering the Coronavirus: Where It All Started

08 Apr 2020
8 - 9 a.m.
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How is the situation on the ground today? How should the Chinese crisis management be assessed? Can other countries learn from China's experience?
Discussion

[WEBCAST] Greening the Belt and Road in Central Asia

30 Apr 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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China and its partners express their willingness to make Belt and Road developments mutually beneficial and greener. But how can these promises be fulfilled in Central Asia? Join the webcast with Viktor Novikov, Central Asia expert.
Discussion

[WEBCAST] What Is China Doing in Africa?

07 May 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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Join the webcast with Eric Olander, Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the China Africa Project – a project that explores every aspect of China’s engagement with Africa.

[WEBCAST] How Does Laos Deal With Chinese Megaprojects?

13 May 2020
5 - 6 p.m.
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Join us for the 'Webcast Current Affairs' with Jessica DiCarlo, who has studied the Lao-China railway to showcase how infrastructures relate to on-the-ground political and social relations in host countries. (Switzerland time UTC + 2)
Tour

Longing for Nature

15 May 2020
12 - 1:15 p.m.
Art over Lunch in May
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[WEBCAST] The Meat that No One Eats. Why Does Japan Continue Whaling?

20 May 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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Why has Japanese whaling been so controversial during the past three decades? Join the webcast with Dr. Fynn Holm, who has studied traditional and contemporary whaling in Japan’s whaling towns. (Switzerland time UTC + 2)
Discussion

The Asia Society Book Salon – Where The Wild Ladies Are

24 Jun 2020
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Join our Book Salon, where we each time discuss an Asian book or one with an Asian angle in an informal setting. This time: Matsuda Aoko's 'Where the Wild Ladies Are'
Tour

Castel Mauensee and the Sigg Collection

26 Jun 2020
6 - 9 p.m.
Asia Society Switzerland is delighted to invite Asia Society Passport Members to an exclusive art tour to Castel Mauensee, Uli Sigg’s home, where part of the collection is housed.