Events

Apart from events organized by Uppsala University, our alumni volunteers and our alumni chapters worldwide, there are also a number of "Sweden Alumni Events" taking place each year all over the world.

Jingjing Huang Staaf, International coordinator for student exchange programmes between UU and our partner universities in Asia, and Professor Anders Backlund, Adviser for Internationalization at UU, would like to invite you to an alumni mingle in Seoul.

Design Thinking is a user centered method where you examine the needs of the users, define problems they have, try to come up with solutions for the problem, make a prototype and then test the prototype.

Welcome to an open lecture with professor Roger Chartier from Collège de France, Paris. The title of the lecture is “Materiality of the Texts and Reading Practices”. Afterwards the audience is invited to a mingle with snacks.

The role and importance of material objects in Orhan Pamuk’s works show an increasing development from his first novels onwards, culminating in The Museum of Innocence (2008). Especially in The Black Book (1990), rooms and other scenes are meticulously described down to the tiniest details; in this respect Pamuk has used French 19th-century authors such as Balzac, Flaubert and not least Proust.

The renowned statistician and scholar John Ioannidis (Stanford University) will present an overview on how science has perhaps become too prolific and too successful and reflect on what role statistics and optimal methods can and should play in helping us understand and counteract detrimental research practices.

Open lecture as part of the Close Relations conference

Welcome to a Makerspace-evening for both the new and experienced maker. Get a 3D-printer driver's licence, discuss ideas for projects or try out some of the handcrafting tools available. Student ambassadors will be there to help and the Library will provide "fika". No registration needed.