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Honorary Doctors’ lectures
On 25 January the Winter Conferment Ceremony is held. New PhDs as well as honorary doctors are conferred during the ceremony. In the week leading up to the conferment ceremony, the new honorary doctors give public lectures. Here we have collected links to all the lectures.
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–15:00
Seminar: Ben Martin
The Culture of International Society: A Digital Humanities Approach to the History of International Ideas
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–14:15
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Steven T. Bramwell
Public lecture by Professor Steven T. Bramwell, appointed honorary doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology 2019, with the title Puzzles and paradigms in a model magnet.
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–17:00
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Susan Danby
Public lecture by Professor Susan Danby, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Educational Sciences 2019, with the title Children’s interaction and social order: Reflections on lessons learned, serendipity and turning points.
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–16:15
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Alan Warde
Public lecture by Professor Alan Warde, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2019, with the title Eating out.
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–19:00
Open Maker-evening at the Ångström Makerspace
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.
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–12:15
Minisymposium to celebrate the 2018 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry
Minisymposium to celebrate the 2018 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry
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–14:15
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Lejla Demiri
Public lecture by Professor Lejla Demiri, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology 2019, with the title Islamic Theology of the ‘Other’: A Case Study from 17th Century Damascus.
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–13:45
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Patrick Augustijns
Public lecture by Professor Patrick Augustijns, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Languages 2019, with the title Insights from the inside: how gut contents and physiology influence drug absorption.
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–15:00
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Mary McClintock Fulkersson
Public lecture by Professor Mary McClintock Fulkerson, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology 2019, with the title Lived Theology: A Challenge.
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–16:00
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Sonia Haoa Cardinali
Public lecture by Sonia Haoa Cardinali, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Arts 2019, with the title Archaeology of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) – Learning from the past for the future.
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–14:45
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Yemane Berhane
Public lecture by Professor Yemane Berhane, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Medicine 2019, with the title Capacity building in Public Health: tertiary education for strengthening health systems in Ethiopia.
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–15:15
Lecture by Honorary Doctor Catherine Merry
Public lecture by Professor Catherine Merry, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Medicine 2019, with the title Sulphated sugar chains, from structure through function to disease modelling.
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–17:45
Holocaust Denial: Flat-earth Theory or a Threat to Truth?
Lecture with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Georgia, United States. The event will be preceded by a free screening of the film "Denial".
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Conferment Ceremony
The Conferment Ceremony is the University’s ceremony for all who have completed their PhDs during the year.
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–16:00
Google Wants to Know Your Location: The Ethical Challenges of Fieldwork in the Digital Age
Information communications technologies (ICTs) like laptops, smartphones, and portable storage devices facilitate travel, communication, and documentation for researchers who conduct fieldwork. But these technologies also raise a new range of ethical challenges.
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Introduction to Zotero
In the introductory course we will help you get started, install the software and create an account. You will learn how to create a reference library, save references to Zotero from article databases, library catalogues and web pages, add PDF files to your Zotero library, and how to insert citations and create reference lists in your document.
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Setting the Table: How Capital Transformed Russia’s Food System
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Big Data Privacy in the Internet-of-Things Era
In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, the amount of user data that can be collected is significantly higher than in the past. New technologies such as smart watches, smart phones, and smart devices on body or in the environment collect sensitive information about users ranging from their health to activities and locations, etc.
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–17:00
Whose Right to the City? Sleep, Night time Shelters, and the Question of Gender in early Twentieth Century Russia
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En kvart över med Ann-Sofie Lönngren: "Djuren i litteraturen"
Välkommen till en föreläsning inom Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks serie En kvart över. Den här gången med Ann-Sofie Lönngren, forskare vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen.
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–19:00
Open Maker-evening at the Ångström Makerspace
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.