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.
This event is open to the public and free of charge. Registration is essential and will open in September 2024. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified.
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.
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University of Zurich
Aula, KOL-G-201
Rämistrasse 71
8006 Zürich
(MAP)