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30
Artificial Intimacy: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
MIT Alumni Association
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May
17
Annual General Meeting 2025
- In-Person
Club of Switzerland
Saturday, May 17, 10:00am - 5:00pm (Europe/Zurich)
Event Details
It is again time for the MIT Club of Switzerland’s annual general meeting! The board is excited to welcome you to attend the AGM near Zurich on Saturday, May 17, 2025, hosted at the Umwelt Arena Switzerland, an exhibition and competence center for all things sustainability and environment. The event kicks off with a private behind-the-scenes tour of the sustainable design, architecture, and energy use of the Umwelt Arena building. Afterwards we'll enjoy a relaxed lunch together before heading to a meeting room to discuss the MIT Club. There is time before and after the official program to explore the exhibitions on your own. The event is modular - you can sign up for some or all additional activities as you wish!
As the forms of advanced eduction evolve at MIT and around the world, we too need to keep our club up-to-date. This year we will be considering revisions to our Club Statutes regarding the definition of membership. The AGM is your opportunity to participate in the Club’s review of last year and add your voice to our planning for the future. We hope you’ll join us!
Date: Saturday, May 17
Location: Umwelt Arena Switzerland, 8957 Spreitenbach (near Zurich, maps)
Opening time: 10:00-17:00
Program:
from 10:00 up to 11:00: individual arrival and exploration of the exhibitions
11:00 - 12:00: MIT private tour: "Behind the Scenes at Umwelt Arena" *
12:00 - 14:00: 3-course lunch at Restaurant Klima
14:00 - 16:00: AGM in meeting room "Bircher-Benner" **
16:00 - 17:00: individual exploration and departure
*The tour is limited to 20 participants. Tickets available first-come, first-serve.
**Participation in the AGM is limited to MIT community members. Your guests may continue exploring the exhibitions during this time. Please remember that only alumni who have paid Club dues this or last year (2025 or 2024) may vote at the AGM.
Costs:
| Entry Ticket+Tour | Lunch | |
| MIT community members who have paid membership fee | free of additional charge | free of additional charge |
| MIT community members without active membership and guests | CHF 14.80 per person | CHF 31.55 per person |
Registration:
To attend, sign up via the registration button on the website by Saturday, 3 May 2025. Note that cancellations after this date cannot be refunded.
Accommodation:
If you are coming from further away...
There are plenty of hotels in Zurich, and the venue also highlighted 2 partner hotels nearby:
Our partner hotel “Hilton Garden Inn” offers you favorable rates via this link: Available Rooms - Hilton Garden Inn Zurich Limmattal
Our partner hotel “harry's home” offers you special prices with the booking code: UWA
https://harrys-home.com/zuerich-limmattal/
Attachments:
will be sent by email no fewer than 21 days ahead of the AGM
- Minutes from last year's AGM 2024
- Meeting Agenda
- Proposed revisions to the Club Statutes
- Preliminary slides to be presented at the AGM
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May
21
East Meets West, Then and Now: Learning from the Legacies of Transpacific Families
MIT Chinese Alumni Group
Wednesday, May 21, 7:00pm - 8:00pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
Register to participate in a live interactive event with Emma Teng, Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT.
Prof. Teng will share her research on transpacific mixed families and take questions from alumni.
In an earlier era of globalization, growing US-China trade, missionary endeavors, transpacific educational exchanges and migration led to the formation of mixed Chinese-Western families, challenging taboos against interracial marriage at the time. Yet, their histories have often been hidden in service to these taboos. What lessons can we learn from the hidden histories of transpacific mixed families and their lived experiences in the US, China and Hong Kong bridging cultural and national differences?
Moderator: Humphrey Chen '90, MIT Chinese Alumni Group
About the Speaker
Emma J. Teng is the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT. She is the author of Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (2004) and Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 (2013). More at https://history.mit.edu/people/emma-teng/Contact
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Jun
1
2025 ESG Annual Alumni Reunion
- Reunions
Experimental Study Group (ESG)
Sunday, June 1, 12:30pm - 3:00pm (America/New_York)
Event Details
ESG alums,
Please join us for the ESG annual alumni reunion on Sunday, June 1, from 12:30-3:30 in the ESG Lounge. We will also celebrate the retirement of longtime ESG/Physics instructor Peter Dourmashkin. We look forward to seeing you there!
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