Talk at the Library

UPCOMING: Talk at the Library – When Diplomacy Is Stuck at the High Level, What Takes Its Place?

Snowskin Mooncakes

UPCOMING WEBCAST: Culinary Demonstration – DIY Snowskin Mooncakes

Mekong

UPCOMING WEBCAST: From the Tibetan Plateau to the Mekong Delta

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Xinjiang Under Surveillance

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UPCOMING: Talk at the Library – When Diplomacy Is Stuck at the High Level, What Takes Its Place?

UPCOMING WEBCAST: Culinary Demonstration – DIY Snowskin Mooncakes

UPCOMING WEBCAST: From the Tibetan Plateau to the Mekong Delta

WATCH NOW: Will Covid-19 Tame Wildlife Trade?

WATCH NOW: The End & The Beginning – Season 1

Asia In-Depth Podcast: Xinjiang Under Surveillance

Asia Society Goes Digital: Check out Our Global Online Programs

JOIN US: Become a Member of Asia Society Switzerland
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The End and The Beginning - Season 1

A webcast series on the big shifts we see in the world, and the beginnings they enable.
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Taste Asia in Zurich

Explore the diversity, the colors and the irreplaceable of Asian food and ingredients in Zurich.
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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.
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Remaining True To Our Mission

On March 20, 2020 in response to the Corona crisis in Switzerland, the Federal Council announced that all events or meetings over 5 people were prohibited. At Asia Society Switzerland we continued to be committed. Find out how right here.
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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.
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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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[INTERACTIVE WEBCAST] Culinary Demonstration: DIY Snowskin Mooncakes

26 Sep 2020
9 - 10 a.m.
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Online culinary demonstration of mooncakes with Jacinta Yu
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[WEBCAST] From the Tibetan Plateau to the Mekong Delta

29 Sep 2020
12 - 12:45 p.m.
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Highlighting key water and related issues at the global level and in Asia in particular, Dr. Susanne Schmeier will open up this webcast, followed by a discussion on the Mekong region with Dr. Anoulak Kittikhoun and Apichai Sunchindah.
Discussion

Zwei Schweizer Journalisten in China

01 Oct 2020
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Der ehemalige SRF-Korrespondent Peter Achten und CGTN-Korrespondentin Martina Fuchs im Gespräch
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Talk at the Library: When Diplomacy Is Stuck at the High Level, What Takes Its Place?

05 Oct 2020
12 - 1:30 p.m.
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Join us for this Talk at the Library with writer, journalist and private diplomat Michael Vatikiotis for a look into diplomacy off-site of the many cameras and overly staffed summits.
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[WEBCAST] Oxford Debate: Will Europe Choose the U.S. Over China?

06 Oct 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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In our third Oxford Debate we are asking: Will Europe choose the U.S. over China? Debating the motion are experts from European think tanks, specializing on the E.U. and its relations to Asia and China in particular.

Executive Roundtable: Building Trust – How We Can Create Reliable and Safe AI Systems

08 Oct 2020
5 - 6 p.m.
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A conversation with Dr. Jing Xiao, Chief Scientist at Ping An, moderated by Heather Evans, Director of Frontier Technology Research at Asia Society Northern California.

Executive Round Table: The U.S. Presidential Elections and Asia

14 Oct 2020
8 - 9 a.m.
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A conversation with the Hon. Kevin Rudd

Executive Round Table: Why Switzerland Needs A China Strategy

19 Oct 2020
12 - 1:30 p.m.
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A Conversation with Amb. Raphael Nägeli and David Braun, Federal Department for Foreign Affairs

Celebrating 2020 Asia Game Changer Award Honorees

24 Oct 2020
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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Join us to celebrate Asia Society's 2020 Asia Game Changer Awards honorees, who were chosen for their responses to the year’s twin traumas of COVID-19 and racially motivated violence.
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Talk at the Library: Banking on Climate Change

28 Oct 2020
12 - 1:30 p.m.
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This talk features the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Han Chen in discussion with Martina Fuchs, business journalist and expert on China and the Middle East.
Tour

A Visit to the Burger Collection

20 Nov 2020
3 - 5:30 p.m.
[PASSPORT MEMBERS ONLY]
Burger Collection Hong Kong is a private collection of contemporary art representing a wide range of works reaching from Euro-American, Indian to Asian art.
Discussion

The Asia Society Book Salon – Amnesty

25 Nov 2020
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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Join our Book Salon where we read and discuss Asian books. This time: "Amnesty" by Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga