2012 Annual Celebration: 18-20 October
At this year's Annual Autumn Ceremony, 9 honorary doctors, 32 new professors and 14 award recipients will be honoured.
3 days of popular science lectures
Come and listen to interesting lectures by this year’s new honorary doctors, professors and award recipients in conjunction with Umeå University’s Annual Autumn Ceremony. 13 will be given in English. All the lectures, including the ones given in Swedish. The formal ceremony will be held at Aula Nordica on Saturday 20 October at 17:00. The general public is welcome to attend all the events!
Lectures in English
Thursday 18 October
Norrlands University Hospital, Lecture Hall D. Level 9
19:00 Chromosome gymnastics
Prof. Rodney Rothstein. Columbia University, New York, USA.
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine.
19:30 “Who's worse off?”. Quandaries in the study of gender and health
Prof. Ellen Annandale. University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine.
20:00 Life and training in neurosurgery
Prof. Juha Hernesniemi. Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.
Swedbank's Scientific Award in the Memory of Amanda and Per Algot Mångberg.
Friday 19 October
Lecture Hall F, Humanities Building
13:00 Rethinking research: Sustainability and trustworthiness
Prof. Naomi Scheman. University of Minnesota, USA
Honorary Doctor at Faculty of Social Sciences.
Room KB3B1, KBC Building (Chemical Biological Centre)
13:30 Arctic ecosystems and our changing climate: Do plants matter?
Ph. D. Ellen Dorrepaal. Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Royal Skyttean Society's Award.
14:00 The significance of distinctions in mathematics education research
Prof. Mogens Niss, Roskilde universitet, Denmark
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology.
14:30 How photosynthesis copes with oxygen – evolutionary perspective
Prof. Eva-Mari Aro. University of Turku, Finland.
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Saturday 20 October
Lecture Hall E, Humanities Building
09:00 Getting stuck in time: Psychological mechanisms of time perspective
Maria Grazia Carelli. Professor in Psykology.
Lecture Hall E, Humanities Building
10:00 When history becomes dogma: Howard Zinn's A People's History and the Education of Schoolchildren
Prof. Sam Wineburg. Stanford University, USA.
Honorary Doctor 2011 at the Faculty of Arts.
Lecture Hall F, Humanities Building
10:00 Hells grannies and crazy ladies. Challenging the gendered constructions of the city
Christine Hudson. Professor in Political Science.
Lecture Hall F, Humanities Building
10:40 3D of Law
Anu Pylkkänen. Professor in Law.
Lecture Hall B, Social Sciences Building
10:40 'The heart of the matter...'
Michael Haney. Professor in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
Lecture Hall A, Social Sciences Building
11:10 Ethics in publishing: Scientific misconduct
Dr. Stuart Spencer. Lancet, London, United Kingdom.
Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine.
Aula Nordica
17:00 The formal ceremony
2011 Autumn Academic Ceremony
Photo by: Mattias Pettersson
