A Conversation with David Burnett.
The event will showcase some of his most iconic photographs, as told by a photojournalist who has been a witness
to some of the most important events of our time. Burnett will share the stories behind the photographs and
discuss how photojournalism is evolving within the digital age.
The evening includes a 3-course dinner at the Château de Penthes.
RSVP:
sere.fr@gmail.com
Location: Geneva
Date: 19 Sep 2011
Start time: 18:30
How to effectively network? Learn from Kristin Engvig, Director and Founder of W.I.N (an independent global women’s leadership organization). Sponsored by OWIT.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.owit-lakegeneva.org/
Date: 27 Sep 2011
Start time: 18:30
End time: 21:30
A series of lectures and exhibits as part of a two-day program sponsored by Geneva’s Art and History Museum.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://ua.unige.ch/memoireafricaine/
Start date: 15 Sep 2011
End date: 16 Sep 2011
Pierre Viret is a church reformer who helped consolidate the Reformation in Lausanne and then captured the hearts of the Huguenots in France.
Canton Vaud commemorates 500 years of his birth in the town of Orbe.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.vd.ch/fr/themes/culture/evenements/a…
Start date: 15 Sep 2011
End date: 17 Sep 2011
What a perfect way to mix two different arts: poetry and wine.
At the Chateau de Lavigny six resident writers will read from their works:
Jean-Jacques Busino – (Switzerland) Novels
Anne-Laure Chanel – (France) Radio fiction
Eva Hauserová – (Rép. Tchèque) Novels, Short stories
Nimrod – (Tchad/France) Novels, Essays, Poetry
Katarina Trodden – (Suède) Translations, Novels, Essays
Location: Lavigny, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Date: 11 Sep 2011
World Humanitarian Day is a special day to commemorate those who work in difficult situation, putting the life at risk and even often loosing it to help people in need of assistance.
Includes a walk, lectures and outdoor activities.
Location: Parc des Bastions, Geneva
Link out: http://www.sergiovdmfoundation.org/wcms/index.p…
Date: 19 Aug 2011
Start time: 17:00
Guided by Hugo Duarte, Interior Architect and Sustainable Construction graduate.
Sponsored by OWIT.
Location: Lausanne,
Link out: http://www.owit-lakegeneva.org/component/option…
Date: 2 Sep 2011
What a perfect way to mix two different arts: poetry and wine.
At the Chateau de Lavigny six resident writers will read from their works:
- Nora Amin – (Egypt) Novels, Short stories
- Elisabeth Frost – (USA) Poetry
- Michael Hulse – (UK) Poetry, Translations
- Vahram Martirosyan – (Armenia) Novels, Short stories
- Jacques Roman – (France/Switzerland) Prose, Poetry, Translations
Location: Lavigny, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Date: 14 Aug 2011
The Chateau at Lavigny hosts readings Sunday 17 July. Six writers from around the world and residents at Lavingy will read from their works, wine will served after the reading. Open to the public.
- Ron Butlin – (UK) Novels, Poetry
- Yuhong Chen – (China) Novels, Poetry
- Regi Claire – (Switzerland/UK) Novels, Short stories
- Krystyna Lenkowska – (Poland) Poetry
- Thembelani Ngenelwa – (South Africa) Novels
- Moez Surani – (Canada) Poetry, Novels
Location: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Link out: http://www.chateaudelavigny.ch/events.html
Date: 17 Jul 2011
Outdoors, free, daily and after work… what else can one ask for?
At Vidy-Plage, in Lausanne.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Link out: http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/UploadedASP/211…
Start date: 11 Jul 2011
End date: 19 Aug 2011
Location: Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, Geneva
Date: 21 Jun 2011
France and Switzerland are together celebrating the 300th anniversary of thinker Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s birthday. Free dinner-debate around this lover of nature’s views and visit to the normally closed Pregny greenhouses. Free; register: delhoume@bluewin.ch
Location: Serres de Pregny, route de Pregny 35, Pregny-Chambé
Date: 28 Jun 2011
Start time: 18:00
Giuseppi Conti, Procurement Leadership, will speak about what determines power in negotiation, what role do emotions play in the process, and how to prepare yourself effectively and set challenging goals.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.owit-lakegeneva.org
Date: 23 Jun 2011
A canton Geneva resident, Lucy Morgan Edwards spent six years in Afghanistan. She arrived in Kandahar at the height of the Taliban regime to work for UN Habitat, living within metres of Mullah Omar’s compound.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.offtheshelf.ch
Date: 17 Jun 2011
Beatrice Bressan, Outreach Coordinator at CERN, will be at the Off the Shelf bookshop to read from and talk about her poetry collection “The Origin”.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.offtheshelf.ch
Date: 7 Jun 2011
Literacy evening in honour of Czelsaw Milosz, Nobel Prize of Literature 1980. At the Palais des Nations, Cyberspace, UNOG Library; Entry: Pregny Gate; Access: Door 20.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/calendar.nsf/%2…
Date: 16 Jun 2011
How has Côte d’Ivoire, a country once deemed stable and economically prosperous, become an ailment in West Africa? What was the role of international actors (neighbouring countries, former colonial power, African organizations, UN Security Council)?
Location: Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Geneva
Link out: http://www.gcsp.ch/Conflict-and-Peacebuilding/E…
Date: 6 Jun 2011
Mark Morris, The Brand Consultancy, leading a seminar
Location: Hotel Bristol, Rue du Mont Blanc
Link out: http://www.thebrandconsultancy.com/june8
Date: 8 Jun 2011
Start time: 18:30
Ingrid Deltenre, director-general, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), brief talk and questions over breakfast, part of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce breakfast series.
Location: Hotel Bristol, rue du Mont-Blanc
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 24 May 2011
Start time: 7:45
End time: 8:45
With Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 16 May 2011
with Ben White, Professor of Rural Sociology, International Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://graduateinstitute.ch/Jahia/site/iheid/ca…
Date: 12 May 2011
With Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt., Business Ambassador at UK Trade & Investment; Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (2000–06); Minister of State for U.K. Trade & Investment (2007–08).
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 11 May 2011
With Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of Nestlé S.A.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://graduateinstitute.ch/Jahia/site/iheid/ca…
Date: 10 May 2011
The British Chamber of Commerce asks: What are Switzerland’s options in the politics of the EU?
Christa Markwalder from the Swiss government will answer.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.bscc.co.uk/index.php?option=com_cont…
Date: 9 May 2011
By Tom Shakespeare, geneticist and sociologist at Webster University.
Location: Bellevue, Geneva
Link out: http://www.webster.ch/
Date: 20 Apr 2011
With Dr. Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://graduateinstitute.ch/Jahia/site/unoacade…
Date: 21 Apr 2011
A look at the common denominators behind procrastination and some practical strategies for overcoming it. Free seminar by Vanessa Shaw, Business and Executive Coach, Simply Zest!
Location: Morges
Link out: http://simplyzest.com/sz/index.php/blog/item/44…
Date: 5 May 2011
With Dr. Larry Liberty a speaker, trainer and executive coach who will provide attendees with new insights and concepts about how to develop and nurture oneself. Sponsored by GWIT.
Location: Lausanne
Link out: http://www.owit-lakegeneva.org/component/option…
Date: 10 May 2011
Speaking event with motivational speaker and blind adventurer, Miles Hilton-Barber, who will share his philosophy and secret to reaching one’s goals both as an individual and a family.
Location: Geneva
Link out: http://www.mybubblecity.com/
Date: 1 May 2011
“Africa’s tomorrow starts today”, conference free with online registration, and open to the public. Lineup of top speakers that includes Kofi Annan, Gordon Brown and Al Gore. Hotel Intercontinental in Geneva, 4-6 April, with the programme starting Tuesday.
Location: Hotel Intercontinental
Link out: http://www.gateway2africa.org/default.aspx
Start date: 4 Apr 2011
End date: 6 Apr 2011
