"Time is Money?" Innovative, New Interdisciplinary Lecture

We’re delighted to announce our innovative, new BA lecture, “Time is Money?”

The course is co-taught by Profs. Anna Elsner (left) and Jamie Gloor (right) from the University of St.Gallen’s Conextual Studies and School of Management (respectively).

Students started the course with a guided tour with curator Cathérine Hug through the Kunsthaus Zurich’s exhibit, “Time,” followed by an interdisciplinary panel with artist Sinzo Aanza, ETH physicists and mathmaticians Caroline Dorn and Josef Teichmann, alongside Profs. Elsner and Gloor.

Course Teaser Video

We’re delighted to welcome a diverse group of students including backgrounds in law/politics, management, contextual studies, and economics—as well as nationalities such as Swiss, French, Indian, and exchange students from Babson College in the United States. These students will present and moderate key ideas in the course, visit St.Gallen hospice (to explore the time before we die and ideas of care time), experiment to see how different kinds of music affect our subjective ideas of time and time to complete tasks, and more!

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to our 2nd annual humor workshop!

On behalf of Dr. Jenny Hofmann, Fiorina Giuliani, Prof. Willibald Ruch, and myself, we are pleased to announce that our exciting, interdisciplinary humor workshop for early career scholars has just received funding from the Graduate Campus to take place a second time. This year, we will also offer the option of virtual attendance if we receive enough interest from applicants, in the interest of sustainability and inclusion.

Reserve the dates now and plan to be in Zurich on January 30-31, 2020. We’ll have keynotes from top international humor scholars such as Sam Yam, a top 40 b-school prof under 40 (National University of Singapore), the well-published Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock (University of Hamburg), Valentina Bambini (Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia) and Rene Proyer (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), as well as paper development roundtables, critical topic discussions, and networking galore.

To apply, please send the following in a single, combined PDF to Dr. Jenny Hofmann by September 30, 2019 (extended to October 31, 2019):

• a 2-page (max.) CV; include your contact information, current affiliation, grants/awards, presentations, and publications,

• a short (1/4 page) motivation letter including your aims for the workshop (e.g., related to your research and career), and

• an abstract of a humor-related paper, including title, all authors and affiliations (250 words max).

All materials will be treated confidentially and only shared with the conference participants and experts. Of note, if you want to attend virtually, you still need to officially apply in the same way as the physical attendees.

More information will be posted here as we have it (e.g., a full, final list of confirmed speakers and a more detailed schedule), so stay tuned!