Events

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.

The Culture of International Society: A Digital Humanities Approach to the History of International Ideas

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.

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.

Public lecture by Professor Alan Warde, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2019, with the title Eating out.

Minisymposium to celebrate the 2018 Ulla and Stig Holmquist Science Prize in Organic Chemistry

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.

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.

Public lecture by Professor Mary McClintock Fulkerson, appointed honorary doctor of the Faculty of Theology 2019, with the title Lived Theology: A Challenge.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.