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Lectures at the Annual Celebration

This is the lecture programme for the 2024 Annual Celebration.

17 October at 10:15–12:30

The Teaching Awardee Panels

The teaching award recipients participate in panel discussions and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Cathrine Norberg will present diplomas to the award recipients. The event is open to the public.

Location: The Ljusgården Atrium in the Teacher Education Building.

18 October at 11:00–12:00

Inauguration of exhibition

Inauguration of the exhibition about this year's honorary doctors, new professors and award recipients. Acting Library Director Malin Josefsson opens the exhibition.

During the opening ceremony, one of the honorary doctors, Sara Sandström, will give a lecture in Swedish entitled Hur konsten berikar vår gemensamma miljö och våra liv.

Everyone is welcome to mingle, listen and view the exhibition. There will be live music and refreshments.

Location: The Study Hall at the University Library

19 October at 9:00–12:00

In the morning of 19 October, honorary doctors, professors and scientific award recipients give lectures. The scientific award recipients will receive their award after their lectures. Each lecture is 20 minutes with a 10 minute pause in between. Refreshments will be served at 10:20.

Annual Celebration Lectures 2024

This programme contains all lectures held in English in Lindell Hall, Social Sciences Building (pink colour) and Humanities Building (green colour). To see all lectures, switch the language setting to Swedish on this page.

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  • 09.00-09.20

    • Is Investigating Intricate Inequities in Illness Inspiring? Indeed – if Inclusive Improvement is Imagined!

      Per Gustafsson, professor, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health

  • 09.30-09.50

    • Research Systems: A 25-Year Evolution – Better or Worse?

      Alexander Talyzin, professor, Department of Physics

  • 10.00-10.20

    • Turning Buildings and Their Inhabitants from Consumers to Producers

      Cornelia Redeker, professor, Umeå School of Architecture

  • 10.40-11.00

    • CANCELLED: Making the Right Decisions in the Presence of Risk and Uncertainty

      Christian Ewald, professor, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

    • What Does a Good Digital Society Look Like?

      Helen Kennedy, professor, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom – Doctor of philosophy

  • 11.10-11.30

    • From Capturing Electrons to Probing Human Health

      Ferenc Krausz, professor, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany – Honorary Doctor of Philosophy

  • 11.40-12.00

    • Reconstructing the Human Past through Language

      Guus Kroonen, associate professor, Leiden University, the Netherlands – The Stiftelsen Språk och kultur Award
Latest update: 2024-10-08