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| A collaboration between Northeastern University and the University of Applied Sciences of Fribourg (Engineering School) has provided the opportunity for three swiss students, David Gabriel, Daniel Galley, and Nicolas Pasquier to perform their diploma work in Boston. The goal of their work was to build a demonstration system that enables habitats monitoring at any time, from anywhere, by using wireless sensor networks.
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| A few years ago, SHARE helped the Engineering School of Fribourg (EIF) find a few partner labs in the Boston area to host students for research projects linked to their diploma work. One such lab, directed by Guevarra Noubir at Northeastern University, hosted 3 students working on new technologies for smart homes. They demonstrated the results of their work using the latest wireless technologies over videoconference to Fribourg where a few professors and R&D experts attended. | |||
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Dorothée Imbert, Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design GSD teaches the landscape architecture design core studios planning and design of landscapes, and landscape architecture design. Because her seminar on modernity and European landscape architecture focuses this year on landscape architecture in Switzerland, SHARE organized a transatlantic virtual critic session with the Institute of Landscape Architecture of ETH Zurich.  Students in landscape architecture of the GSD presented their first analysis of Swiss parks, cemeteries, baths and large scale metropolitan design concepts to critics at SHARE and at ETH Zurich. Under the lead of Annemarie Bucher at ETH and Remo Steinmetz at SHARE the students could get a lot of background information about their projects. Dorothée Imbert wrote us after the videoconference: “Thank you so much for making Friday's discussion with ETH Zurich possible. It was very helpful for the students (who were very impressed with your facilities!) to have some specific input on their projects. I hope they carry it through now. Perhaps we can have a further exchange next semester, when Annemarie Bucher will be here [in Cambridge], as I find it very valuable.” | |||
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| The Swiss Consulate in Cambridge, SHARE, and the MIT Energy Club co-hosted Professor Michael Graetzel of EPFL and Michael Berke of Konarka Technologies at SHARE Friday December 2 for excellent lectures and a casual lunch.
Presentation of Prof. Michael Graetzel Presentation of Mr. Howard Berke | |||
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| SHARE was asked to participate in the Harvard-MIT Colombian Conference Science, Technology and Innovation. The organizers were particularly interested in SHARE due to its experience as a consular representation dedicated to the promotion of scientific and technological initiatives across international boundaries. Remo Steinmetz presented at the conference the knowledge based economy of Switzerland, the mission and main objectives of SHARE in that concern, and how the Swiss House of Academic Research and Education works. Antonio Copete, Vice-president of the Harvard Columbian Society wrote the following mail on the presentation of SHARE: “Now that I have a bit more time to write after all the buzz with the STI Colombia conference, I wanted to write to thank you once again for your contribution and your support for the conference. One of our purposes with the invitation we extended to you was to show that the problem of scientific and technological development is not so much about money as it is about vision, and in that sense I think the audience benefited from it, and found a concrete example of an initiative that is the materialization of such a vision.” | |||
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| Dr. David Sachs was at SHARE to interact with colleagues from CHUV (University Hospital of Lausanne) in connection with the Transatlantic Transplantation program between Swiss University Hospitals and MGH, supported by Novartis and iniated by SHARE. On the Swiss side, Manuel Pascual, the head of Transplantation medicine for CHUV and HUG (Geneva) moderated the discussion. Olivier Dormond is the first fellow to benefit from the program and currently works on research projects at MGH and Children's hospital. | |||
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| A group of 15 Swiss retail banking experts visited SHARE on their study trip to software, technology and consulting companies in Boston. After their arrival in Boston Logan Airport heir first stop was SHARE, where Christoph von Arb gave them an overview over the mission and projects of the unique scientific Consulate in Cambridge. After Boston, the group continued their trip then to New York and later on to Orlando Florida, where they participated in the BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Expo. | |||
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| The pre-conference meeting of an international symposium preventing disasters and minimizing their consequences took place at SHARE on November 10, 2005. 20 attendees from Harvard School of Public Health, sponsors and the International Risk Governance Council Geneva were discussion the program and goals of the conference, participants to invite, and also components to disasters that determine their consequences (e.g. leadership, infrastructure, and financial incentives). The conference on Disasters-Prevention and Mitigation will be held April 26-28, 2006 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge. This global conference should develop strategies to minimize the human and financial loss of disasters through strategies of coordinated action across national and international entities, government, business and the academy. It is organized by the Harvard School of Public Health. The conference co-chairs are Professor Joseph D.Brain and Professor Howard Koh. Christoph von Arb, Director, Consul General of SHARE, is member of the conference organizing committee. Further information on the Conference Disasters-Prevention and Mitigation on the website http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disasters/index.html | |||
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| The screening of the Oscar nominated film was an impressive and emotionally moving experience. Every available seat was taken, and the Q & A session with film director Christian Frei revealed many additional aspects of James Nachtwey’s extraordinary life.
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| Why cells die so that you may live How cancer cells live when they should die
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| HGKZ (www.hgkz.ch) and SHARE co-organized a roundtable discussion on the topic of mobile design. HGKZ is the Zurich School for the Arts and offers various programs linked to mobile applications. Gehrard Blechinger (Rektor), Tanja Gompf and Raoul Heinkel demonstrated two projects: a movie that runs on cell phones and a mobile security application/course.
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Within the program of the trinational “BioValley Life Science Week 2005” Friends of Massachusetts Basel and SHARE organized a Boston-Basel videoconference on systems biology. The progress in microbiology and genomics hold the promise to make biotechnology the dominant economic force of the first half of the 21st century. The electronic and computer breakthroughs will allow massive amounts of genetic information to be decoded and processed. Systems biology, the fusion of information technology and biotechnology may bring a highly effective means of disease prevention, detection and finding cures. Dr. Dieter Scholer, President "Friends of Massachusetts Basel gave in introduction and moderated the panel discussion on systems biology. Panelists in Boston presented the life science clusters in the United States (Remo Steinmetz SHARE), the imaging technologies for analyzing macromolecules in cells (Prof. Paul Matsudeira of MIT), and organization and strategy of Harvard-MIT Broad institute (Dr. Patrick Kleyn). The Basel panel commented these statements (Prof. Susan Gasser, Prof. Michael Hall, Dr. René Imhof, Prof. Peter Meier-Abt., Switzerland. | |||
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The Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning(SCIL), the New England Learning Association (NELA) and SHARE broadcasted a transatlantic videoconference on E-Learning. About 40 people came together at SHARE to join the international e-learning congress at the University of St.Gallen. The SCIL congress addressed the question how eLearning can be implemented as a strategic educational innovation in learning organizations. Over 20 international speakers and over 150 participants from corporations and universities took part in St. Gallen (see picture). In a transatlantic videoconference an esteemed panel of experts was discussing on technology and specific examples to the underlying visions e-learning is going to serve both in university and corporate education. Dieter Euler, Professor and Chair for Business Education and Educational Management at the University of St.Gallen, lead the discussion. Panelists Prof. Dr. Robert Zemsky was talking about “e-learning as a thwarted innovation”. Nigel Paine, who is responsible for the training of the BBC's 27,000 staff, gave interesting insights in innovative e-learning tools at BBC and the future of virtual learning environments. Dr. Richard Straub of IBM Learning Solutions commented on implementing e-learning strategies. David Wilkins, the panelist at SHARE, is Senior Director of Product Strategy with Knowledgeplanet and commented out of his more than ten years of practical experience in the e-learning. Allan Cole of NELA and Remo Steinmetz of SHARE moderated the conference from Boston. | |||
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| Professor Thomas Zurbuchen retold at SHARE in exciting audio visual presentation the amazing story of Albert Einstein’s discoveries in 1905. When 26-year-old Einstein, a technical assistant in the Swiss patent office in Bern, wrote four articles (on Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect, special relativity, and the famous equation E = mc2 .) that provided the foundation of modern physics. Thomas Zurbuchen not only explained those break troughs, but also which impacts these papers had for today's technologies, and our understanding of the universe as a whole. The presentation touched also the human dimension, how Einstein worked and lived in Bern at that time with photos and videos.
Thomas Zurbuchen is Professor at the University of Michigan, focusing on broad areas such as Space Science and Exploration, enabling Astrophysics from Space. He is a recent winner of the US Presidential Early Career Award, and first Swiss to get this prize. | |||
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Since ancient times Switzerland has played an important role in the transportation of goods and information due to its unique location in the centre of Europe. This has also an impact on research and education. St. Gallen University Associate Professor Daniel Corsten, Kuehne-Institute for Logistics, lead the group of the Executive MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The last module of this 18 months MBA course took the group of 29 Executives to the Boston area where they visited MIT, Harvard, but also Tyco, EMC, Celestica, and Straumann Inc.  Participants of class of 2005 Executive MBA in logistics at the University of St. Gallen presented at SHARE in a public event the highlights of their applied research on a study trip to the US. Remo Steinmetz welcomed the group, presented the concept and mission of the scientific consulate SHARE. Daniel Corsten gave a brief introduction in global logistics and applied research in that field. The participants of the study tour gave presentations on New Business Models for Logistics Service Providers, Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Real Option Theory in Logistics. | |||
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| A reading in German and English by Swiss author, playwright, editor, translator, film and music critic. Hansjörg Schertenleib read from his books “Von Hund zu Hund” and “Der Glückliche”. MIT Professor Kurt Fendt introduced the author and moderated the animated discussion following the lecture.
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| We send our IT specialist, Christian Koster, well equipped back to Switzerland where he will join his old team at Credit Suisse. We thank him for his ground-breaking work. Not only the SHARE Team, but also the "Red Sox" will truly miss him:
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| With mixed emotions, Marianne Gerber’s friends and colleagues gathered at Christoph von Arb’s residence to bid her farewell and wish her all the best for her transit to Bordeaux, France. Her enthusiastic, warm-hearted, and professional ways will be missed in Boston. So long, Marianne...
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| A three-way videoconferenced discussion took place at SHARE on the topic of innovation and entrepreneurial clusters. An economist or economic development introduced each region - Boston, Lausanne and Singapore - and gave an overview of key industries, employment trends in high-technology companies and opportunities for future economic growth. The second part of the discussion centered on the stories from three serial entrepreneurs linked to each region. In Boston, Howard Berke drew on his 30 year entrepreneurial career to sum up what makes the region such a hotbed for innovation: people! He also described the history and the current status of Konarka, the solar cell company he co-founded. Konarka collaborates with EPFL and is part of a CTI research program. | |||
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| Nicolas Gisin, Professor of Applied Physics at University Genève, presented the Geneva teleportation experiment at an evening event at SHARE: “According to Aristotle, objects are constituted by matter and form, ie by elementary particles and quantum states. Matter and energy can not be teleported from one place to another: they can not be transferred from one place to another without passing through intermediate locations. However, quantum states, the ultimate structure of objects, can be teleported. Accordingly, objects can be transferred from one place to another without ever existing anywhere in between! This has been done 1997 in an experiment in Geneva.”
Is quantum cryptography only a scientific concept? “No, you can already buy applications from id Quantique!”, said Professor Gisin. You can get there quantum random number generators or an appliance for point-to-point wire-speed link encryption based on quantum cryptography. | |||
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| Faculty and professionals from Switzerland and the US came together at SHARE at a two days seminar on IT-Security. Partner of the seminar was Credit Suisse Department of Security Architecture and Triangle Azur (alliance of Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchatel). The goal of the seminar was to facilitate a transatlantic dialogue between faculty and practitioners about IT-security in financial services and banking. Key questions of the were:
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| SHARE organized a three day study trip on information technology, it-security and computer science for two professors from Triangle Azur – a joint program of the universities of Lausanne, Geneva and Neuchâtel: Dr. Maya Wentland-Forte (Professor at Institute of Informatics and Organization of the Business School, Vice-Rector of University of Lausanne) and Dr. Solange Ghernaouti (Vice-Dean, Professor for information technology security of University of Lausanne).
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| To celebrate the wide-ranging and impressive work of Bruno Ganz, one of Switzerland’s most international stage and screen actors, the Harvard Film Archive – together with SHARE and the Goethe Institut Boston, and supported by SwissFilms – presents a retrospective of 19 of Ganz’s best films over a period of three weeks, starting on June 3 with the film “Downfall”, wherein Ganz portrays Adolf Hitler during the final days. An impressive crowd of film lovers gathered a SHARE on Friday for a short opening reception, before heading over to the Harvard Film Archive for the screening of opening film “Downfall”. The Boston Phoenix wrote in his Arts & Entertainment section on June 3 “if Jimmy Stewart were Swiss, short, and brooding, he might pass for Bruno Ganz, one of the most admired European actors”.
For a detailed film schedule, please visit: www.harvardfilmarchive.org. | |||
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| As a part of a study trip on e-learning organized by Ulrich Gysel from the Swiss Embassy in Washington, Swiss leaders in e-learning presented e-learning programs and projects in Swiss higher education at SHARE.
The speakers and their topics were:
The presentations were followed by a reception, sponsored by Swiss Virtual Campus, ETH Zurich and Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning. Thanks to the announcement of the event by the New England Learning Association, the Swiss e-learning experts could exchange their thoughts with their Bostonian counterparts during the reception. | |||
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| Elliott Masie, an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher and organizer on the critical topics of learning, technology, business, and workplace productivity spoke to about "E-Learning Trends". The local audience at SHARE was a Swiss study group on e-learning, which toured for a week through US institutions of higher education. Thru a videoconference to ETH and to University of Applied Science Bern, the presentation of Elliott was also followed by e-learning experts in Zurich and Biel.
Elliott Masie focused on the approach of extreme learning, which has three key aspects:
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| Before a full house, the young, very talented and promising Swiss film maker Julien Roussel, gave a sneak preview of his latest film „Aimee Price“. The film is about a beautiful yet unhappy young woman, whose life changes forever when she encounters a mysterious antiquarian. He promises her a lifetime of happiness in exchange for one year of her youth. But 30 years later Aimee learns that a single year can be a lifetime. The 40 minutes long film provoked some interesting and emotional discussions between the audience and the film maker. The quest and in some parts of the Western world excessive cult of eternal youth and beauty - as opposed to happiness that comes from inside – is a topic that stirs up a wide range of emotions, fears and questions. It is a topic that does not leave many people indifferent. The mastery of Julien Roussel was to confine in 40 minutes – for financial reasons - a story that could have more easily been developed over two hours. The audience was unanimous at the end of the evening: we were offered one of those rare opportunities to meet face to face with a great young Swiss talent, a wonderful human being and a rising star among the young filmmakers.
For more information on Julien Roussel and his work visit his website at: www.whiteswanfilms.com. The film will be officially presented at the Boston Film Festival on June 23, at 7:45pm, at the Loews Theatre Boston Common, located at 175 Tremont Street, Boston. (www.bifilmfestival.com). | |||
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| Patrick Aebischer, the president of EPFL (www.epfl.ch), the Swiss Institute of Technology, gave a passionate speech about the reforms going on in Switzerland and at his institution. Among other things, EPFL is building a real campus (including housing), adding new programs and faculty along the info-nano-bio axis as well as developing a world-class Master program. The audience of about 100 young researchers and professionals were also impressed by Prof Aebischer's vision of Switzerland as the "Education Country", a label he hopes will soon find its place on the license plates of Swiss cars! Visit the EPFL web site at www.epfl.ch for details | |||
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| A rare event at SHARE: A lecture in German with one the best known contemporary Swiss authors and an enthusiastic German speaking audience. Perikles Monioudis read excerpts and short stories from his award winning literary works. MIT Professor Kurt Fendt, from MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, introduced the author and moderated the very lively discussion following the lecture. Perikles Monioudis was born in Glarus, Switzerland. After his studies in sociology and political science in Zurich he moved to Berlin. His novels and short stories have been translated into several languages and received various acclaimed literary prizes, such as the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis. Supported by SHARE, the Max-Kade-Foundation and MIT, Perikles Monioudis is currently Writer-in-Residence at MIT, where he teaches a course in German. For more information on Perikles Monioudis see: http://www.monioudis.de | |||
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| The Flux Laboratory in Geneva - an experimental meeting, performance and exhibition space encouraging arts and business to work together - hosted an evening on Arts and Innovation. The evening kicked off with a discussion over videoconference with Prof Ted Selker of MIT Media Lab at SHARE. Prof Selker is the director of the Context Aware Computing Lab at the Media Lab and has spent his career designing/humanizing inventive products such as the Trackpoint device on IBM notebooks. He explained to the audience that he believes that designing products with the user in mind is key and gave many examples of research projects exploring the human-computer interaction: - a smart bike helmet that anticipates your moves - a computer that comments on your driving - a kitchen that responds to your needs and desires In conclusion, Prof Selker compared the process of invention to an action movie with its own cast of characters and auditions! | |||
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| SHARE held a workshop for a group of equal opportunity (gender related) managers of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences from April 26 – 29, 2005. The four-day workshop connected to the visit of the equal employment officers of both Federal Institutes of Technologies and various universities two years ago. The workshop contained the visit of Olin College of Engineering – a new and visionary university model with 50% female students and 40% female faculty – as well as the Center for Gender in Organization of the Simmons School of Management – worldwide the only Business School especially for women. Furthermore, SHARE organized discussion forums and seminars with representatives from leading American Universities (MIT, Babson College, Brandeis University) as well as professional associations (AWIS, Association of Women in Science; WEST, Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology; SWE, Society of Women Engineers; und NSF, National Science Foundation). A special emphasize was the focus on how to increase the number of female students, faculty and researchers in the disciplines of engineering and science but also on how to promote women on the management level. | |||
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| I-Net Basel (www.inet-basel.ch), an initiative to promote some of the area's most promising technologies, and SHARE co-organized a workshop on the topic "Content Delivery and DRM - The Challenge to enable Mass Markets for the Digital Distribution Channel". More than 20 experts - from representative of Music publishers to high-tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists - gathered here to hear Michael Bornhaeusser, the CEO of Secure Digital Container (www.digicont.ch) talk about the latest developments of mobile content delivery from three perspectives: - business: customers want "download it once - use it everywhere" - technical: the need to have interoperable DRM solutions - legal: solutions that respect owners rights and allow multiple channels use | |||
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| The second teleconferenced lecture at SHARE, between Harvard and ETHZ, in the context of TAICON (Transatlantic Initiative on Complex Organizations and Networks) was given by Professor John Holland of the University of Wisconsin on April 13, 2005. John Holland discussed in his presentation language as a complex adaptive system (cas), concentrating on language as asocial activity involving agents that interact and learn. The model presented is an exploratory model still in the process of implementation. Part of the presentation concerns the development of social networks under the impetus of language. John Holland’s books, HIDDEN ORDER (1995) and EMERGENCE (1998), summarize many of his thoughts about cas. Professor Boi Faltings of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) delivered teleconferenced comments from the ETH in Zurich. According to Boi Faltings future work will have to tackle – among other - the question, if evolutionary models can provide good simulations. Further information on TAICON can be found under: http://www.icr.ethz.ch/taicon/index | |||
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| Europe and Switzerland in particular do not have a tradition in fundraising and obtaining private sector funds. Nevertheless, it will be a necessity in the near term future. In Switzerland, ETH Zurich is at the forefront of this development. In the year of 2004, they established the ETH Foundation, which started a fundraiser campaign with a vision of raising $800 million endowments until 2010. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Vice-President Planning and Logistics, of ETH Zurich and Maya Lalive d’Epinay, Delegate of the ETH Zurich Foundation Board, wanted to learn more about fundraising in the US. SHARE arranged a multi-day program to different universities and institutions to get some first hand insights in this field. | |||
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| Harvard International Relations Council, the largest student group at Harvard was organizing a "Human Rights Week" April 11th -15th that featured a variety of human rights related events such as speaker panels, receptions, movie screenings etc. SHARE hosted the first kick-off event of this week with a panel discussion about “Covering Human Rights in War Torn Societies: Media Responsibility”.
Swiss writer Pierre Hazan, correspondent for the French daily Libération at the United Nations in Geneva and contributor to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, presently Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, pointed out the responsibility of media in war. He also showed that some war do not get attention in the media. The civil war in Congo, the widest interstate war in modern African history, where since 1998 up to three-million people have been killed, does not get any attention. Edward Girardet, President Media Action International and National Geographic Correspondent in Afghanistan from Geneva/Switzerland explained how the media changed in recent years. He illustrated on the example of the war in Afghanistan that the coverage in the US came up near to propaganda compared to the occupation by the Soviets. Charles Norchi, Professor of International Law and History (Humanities) at Sarah Lawrence College and Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School moderated the event. | |||
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| SHARE featured seven local Swiss (-related) scientists, who presented their activities through posters, slides and computer simulations. About 70 people used the excellent opportunity to learn about what others are researching in the area. The setup was very informal. Everybody walked around, talked with the presenters and discussed in groups.
Thanks to the well prepared and motivated presenters:
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| For the third consecutive year, SHARE reached out to the neighbourhood and hosted one of the meetings of the “Cambridge Reads: Cover-to-Cover” program. A group of book lovers gathered on April 6 at SHARE to discuss this year's book selection "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. Cambridge Reads is a wonderful initiative sponsored by Mayor Michael A. Sullivan’s Office, the Friends of Cambridge Public Library, the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and Harvard Book Store. Between March and September 2005, the entire Cambridge community is invited to read the same book and participate in facilitated book discussions at many locations throughout the city. | |||
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| Peter Baki, who is with the planning department of the city of Winterthur/Switzerland, worked for four weeks at SHARE. Peter studied the revitalization of Boston: How was Boston transformed from a city with declining manufacturing base, depopulation, and racial unrest back in the 1970s, to the confident, multicultural, high-tech industry oriented, prosperous cosmopolitan city it is today? The city has reinvented itself three times very successfully: in the early 19th century as the provider of seafaring human capital for a far flung maritime trading and fishing empire, in the late 19th century as a factory town built on immigrant labor and capital, and finally in the late 20th century as a center of the science driven economy.
In all instances, city planning and redevelopment have been playing an important role. “Landmaking” with filling parts of Charles River and the harbor was crucial for the first phase of expansion. With the car and the freeway system around Boston, the process of suburbanization took place. Today, also re-urbanization of Boston is in process (e.g. Transformation of the artery overpass freeway into tunnels – Big Dig, Harvard's plans in Allston, transformation of Boston wharf). | |||
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| To lay the foundation for a global network of Academies for Leadership and Education in Sustainability, the World Youth-Encounter-Sustainability Forum was initiated. The initiative is based on experiences of summer academies held under the banner of “Youth Encounter on Sustainability (Y.E.S)” by ETH Zurich/Switzerland. The program is designed to train and sensitize students and young academics to issues of sustainability and shaping future development in a two-week, immersive, experiential program. To date, more than 400 participants from 71 nations and 40 disciplines have received training. The World YES Forum (WYF) from ETH Sustainability is a project designed to re-think how education for sustainable development is supported and implemented in the world. Based upon the highly successful Youth Encounter for Sustainability program, different regional organized WYF teams are undertaking a comprehensive examination of the social, cultural and historical aspects of sustainability education.
The regional working group USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand gathered several days on the peninsula of Nahant MA and discussed their findings at SHARE with local faculty and scholars. The main outcome was to build up a knowledge bank on sustainability (e.g. regional initiatives, priorities, role of leadership, case studies), which justifies, informs and supports an academy for sustainability and leadership education. The wished-for academy is both regionally and culturally specific and generates new models for leadership and sustainable futures education. The members of the working group will have a lot of work ahead to build up the first step of the knowledge bank. | |||
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| Was it the intriguing title of the Swiss author’s latest book “Schlampenyoga” that attracted such a big crowd to SHARE? Whatever the reason, all seats were taken, and an unusual joyful and relaxed ambiance prevailed from the beginning on. Margrit V. Zinggeler, Professor of German at the Eastern Michigan University, discussed in her introduction the irony and humor in the literary works of Milena Moser. Milena Moser, a highly successful Swiss writer, was born in Zurich (Switzerland), and lives currently with her family in San Francisco. She has published ten novels so far. Milena Moser’s refreshing and funny personality captured the whole audience and provoked lots of smiles and laughter. The lively discussion that followed her readings was moderated with wit and humor by Professor Zinggeler. A kind of “Café Littéraire” ambiance was hanging over SHARE, and the people were visibly enjoying the discussions with Milena Moser and the relaxed evening in general. Milena Moser’s presence at SHARE was a great pleasure and success! The next day, both Milena Moser and Professor Margrit Zinggeler represented the Swiss German Literature at the annual Conference of the North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference (NEMLA) which took place again in Cambridge this year. Margrit Zinggeler gave a presentation on the“Irony and Humor in Swiss German Literature”, especially in the works of Milena Moser. In this context, Milena Moser’s following readings were well attended and received a great applause. For more information on Milena Moser’s work, visit: http://www.milenamoser.com | |||
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| Thanks to Joost Paul Bonsen from MIT Sloan, SHARE could host and co-organize a luncheon to broaden our efforts in the field of sustainable urban development: The Intense City - Urban Innovations Enabling the 21st Century Metropolis Our informal luncheon drew together 25 local and visiting scholars and practitioners interested in urban innovations, vibrant multi-use developments, the livable inner-city, and enabling ecological sustainability along with economic viability. The format was a "mingling" lunch with a few brief and informal remarks from the participants followed by a discussion. It worked out very promising. A nice, informal network could be established. See what follows next... | |||
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