{"title": "Slow Reading", "start": "2026-11-02T16:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Universität Zürich-Zentrum, Hörsaal KOL F-121, Zürich", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading"], "description": "«Slow Reading» is a talk within the lecture series «Kulturanalyse jetzt!» by the Studienprogramm Kulturanalyse at the University of Zurich. The talk by Davide Giuriato (Universität Zürich) addresses the question of what reading means today and what current practices, strategies and politics of reading look like. The series asks about the technical, medial and structural conditions of reading and its futures, for instance in view of AI and machine text processing. The event takes place in lecture hall KOL F-121.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/slow-reading-82870/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T16:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Universität Zürich-Zentrum, Hörsaal KOL F-121, Zürich", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Culture Club – Buchpräsentation: Davide Giuriato in conversation with Elisabeth Bronfen", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An evening of „The Culture Club“ in the form of a book presentation at Cabaret Voltaire. Davide Giuriato talks with Elisabeth Bronfen about his book. The event welcomes anyone interested in literature and conversation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/the-culture-club-buchprasentation-davide-giuriato-in-convers-78191/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Silent Book Club", "start": "2026-11-05T14:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "The Silent Book Club is a get-together where everyone reads quietly in their own book, as there is no prescribed reading. It is run by the Self-Access Center (SLZ) of the Language Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. We just meet and share our silent reading for an hour, and at the SLZ we help participants to find the ideal reading for their desired language, level and interests. Register online or just drop by!", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-book-club-8318/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Silent Reading Rave", "start": "2026-11-06T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Zürich", "address": "Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei, keine Anmeldung notwendig", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/silent-reading-rave-4", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A silent reading rave: a crowd reads side by side in the reading room of the Literaturhaus, a space otherwise open to members only. It is run by the Zurich association Silent Reading Rave, which brings people together to read all over Switzerland. You bring your own reading matter – comics, Goethe, pulp fiction – or pick a book from the book table provided by the Literaturhaus. Admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-reading-rave-642/", "official_url": "https://literaturhaus.ch/veranstaltungen/silent-reading-rave-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c07644628ed4260b208c95661665d124d8f30469d39ddf866a6459de19697e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Silent Reading Rave", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gleis", "address": "", "price": "gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.silentreadingrave.com", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "Silent Reading Rave is a cultural project from Zurich that brings people together to read quietly in company. It is run by a non-profit association from Zurich that wants to celebrate the joy of reading and promote literature across Switzerland. For about two hours, everyone reads their own book – a novel, magazine or study texts – in as complete silence as possible. You bring your own reading material; some books from the publisher Kein&Aber are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/silent-reading-rave-20703/", "official_url": "https://www.silentreadingrave.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6a8e46abb2170401788d74886c77b648b981c38a3e48c01c57a10d6443fe5f7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Vivere e lavorare a Zurigo", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Fachbibliothek zur Gleichstellung von Frau und Mann", "address": "Stadthausquai 17, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/integration"], "description": "\"Vivere e lavorare a Zurigo\" is an information event in Italian for people newly arrived in Zurich. It is run by the City of Zurich and aimed at people who have been living in the city for at most six months. Topics include the language situation in Switzerland, history and politics, housing, work and everyday life in Zurich. It also covers learning German, making contacts and networking, as well as daily matters such as waste disposal.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/vivere-e-lavorare-a-zurigo-6631/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Podiumsdiskussion: Publish or Perish? Was ist ein Text noch wert?", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Campus Oerlikon BIM", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/publishing"], "description": "A panel discussion under the title «Publish or Perish? Was ist ein Text noch wert?». It takes place at Campus Oerlikon BIM of the University of Zurich. Registration is possible through the University of Zurich.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/podiumsdiskussion-publish-or-perish-was-ist-ein-text-noch-we-69392/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Worte als Waffen – Hassrede im Zeitalter des Populismus", "start": "2026-11-05T18:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:45:00+01:00", "place": "Hörsaal F 180, Universität Zürich Zentrum, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public lecture titled \"Worte als Waffen – Hassrede im Zeitalter des Populismus\" (Words as Weapons – Hate Speech in the Age of Populism), given by Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay of the Department of Political Science at UZH. It is part of the lecture series \"Die Sprache der Macht. Die Macht der Sprache\" (The Language of Power. The Power of Language), run by the UZH Interdisciplinary Commission, which examines the relationship between language and power from linguistic, sociological, cultural, psychological and historical perspectives, with topics including propaganda, hate speech and misinformation. The series aims to promote a conscious and critical approach to language as a societal instrument of power. The lectures are usually recorded and made available as podcasts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/worte-als-waffen-hassrede-im-zeitalter-des-populismus-82888/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b934b4b5b034428de5d8804e616e483ce1b693157fef82b37d8e1b291c3af761-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Miteinander Lesen – Shared Reading", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T16:30:00+01:00", "place": "PBZ Schwamendingen", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A shared reading session where a story is read aloud and participants discuss it together. Everyone immerses themselves in the narrative and exchanges their thoughts on it. All who wish to step away from everyday life for a while are warmly invited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/miteinander-lesen-shared-reading-25292/", "official_url": "https://www.pbz.ch/event/miteinander-lesen-shared-reading-231/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14ea7d4fe214f148f38e7031c89f11298a15d9d9d42229a5181d8844ff5f5566-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kinder-Uni Winterthur - Wieso kann der Computer eigentlich mit mir reden?", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ZHAW, Gebäude TN, School of Engineering", "address": "Technikumstrasse 71, 8401 Winterthur", "price": "kostenlos, Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://kinderuni.ngw.ch/", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "The Kinder-Uni Winterthur is a lecture series for children in grades 4 to 6, with a talk by renowned researchers every two weeks. It is organised by the Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Winterthur (NGW) together with the ZHAW School of Engineering. This lecture is about artificial intelligence: how computers understand and generate language and texts. In the end, the children will understand how a computer „understands“ their questions and answers them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kinder-uni-winterthur-wieso-kann-der-computer-eigentlich-mit-84200/", "official_url": "https://www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/event-news/kinder-uni-winterthur-wieso-kann-der-computer-eigentlich-mit-mir-reden", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler • Lesung & Zeichnung", "start": "2026-11-03T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaufleuten Festsaal", "address": "Pelikanstrasse 18, 8001 Zürich", "price": "ab CHF 48", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An evening of reading and drawing in the Festsaal at Kaufleuten. Bestselling authors and columnists Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler present their new book «Umdenken», in which they rethink theories and concepts of modern life with humour. On stage, they also rethink the classic PowerPoint talk and welcome the audience with analogue surprises. An inspiring evening in which no thought goes unquestioned.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mikael-krogerus-roman-tschappeler-lesung-zeichnung-5918/", "official_url": "https://kaufleuten.ch/event/mikael-krogerus-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abc594a583bc939ce7fe338b9f87cecc8f4ff6265a1f623b59e9684068bb084a-2000.webp"}]}