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Censorship stifles;
inquiry liberates.

On the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, join the Zurich Salon to debate Israel and anti-Semitism. Get your tickets here. Our brilliant panel consists of Thomas Fazi, Dominik Feusi, Stefan Ziegler and Daniel Ben-Ami. Is anti-Semitism on the rise? Are pro-Gaza protesters really apologists for Hamas or is...

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This is a conversation on AI with Sandy Starr, held in Zurich on the 04.05.2024. Sandy Starr is deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity that advances public understanding of science, law and ethics in the fields of genetics/genomics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research. Sandy also serves...

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The Zurich Salon is proud to present Sandy Starr in our first debate of the year on Artificial Intelligence. Get your tickets here. From algorithms to AI: how do we know humans and machines are different? Humans have used algorithms – a certain kind of well-defined procedure that accomplishes a...

A Battle of Ideas Satellite Event with Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Elena Louisa Lange, Timandra Harkness & Marko Kovic Nestlé, the food and beverage giant, vigorously promotes sustainable practices, but it has also been linked to environmental degradation and resource overexploitation. Meanwhile, distinguished investment bank and financial services firm UBS promotes gender...

In Conversation with Frank Furedi and Alfred de Zayas. We may be witnessing the birth of a new nation tied together by bonds forged in the fire of armed resistance to foreign aggression. The importance of borders, long derided as an old-fashioned remnant of bygone ideologies, has reasserted itself. A...

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