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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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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.
Global Reach

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.
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.
India Election
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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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Taste Asia in Zurich

Explore the diversity, the colors and the irreplaceable of Asian food and ingredients in Zurich.
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Press

Interviews and articles with our guest speakers, op-ed's from our board and directors and more

Events

Discussion

[WEBCAST] How Long Can We Live?

27 Oct 2020
4:15 - 5 p.m.
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Life expectancy has been increasing rapidly in the past decades. How long will this trend continue?
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[WEBCAST] Talk at the Library: Banking on Climate Change

28 Oct 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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[MEMBERS ONLY]
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. Register to participate on Zoom.
Discussion

The Japanification of the World?

03 Nov 2020
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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Does Japan represent Europe's future in terms of its aging population?
Conference

[WEBCAST] Mini-Conference: The Giant Next Door – China In Southeast Asia

10 Nov 2020
8:30 - 9:50 a.m.
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The conference begins with a keynote by Sebastian Strangio, journalist and author. Next we host two parallel breakout sessions on Cambodia and Laos with Sebastian and Indonesia, and Malaysia with Ben Bland of the Lowy Institute.
Discussion

[WEBCAST] Talk at the Library: South Korean Society in Transition

17 Nov 2020
12 - 1 p.m.
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Join the talk with Prof. Martina Deuchler, who is a founding figure in the study of Korean history in the West and a witness of South Korea’s transformation since 1967. Register to participate on Zoom or live at our library.
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.
[MEMBERS ONLY]
Join our Book Salon where we read and discuss Asian books. This time: "Amnesty" by Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga