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Lectures at the Annual Celebration 2025

This is the lecture programme for the Annual Celebration 18 October between 9:00 and 12:00 in the Humanities Building and Lindell Hall.

In the morning of 18 October, honorary doctors, professors and scientific award recipients give lectures. The scientific award recipients will receive their award after their lectures.

The programme below contains all lectures held in English. To see all lectures, switch the language setting to Swedish on this page.

The lectures are open to the public and held between 9:00 and 12:00. Refreshments will be served between 10:20 and 10:40.

Annual Celebration Lectures 2025

The lectures are held in the Lindell Hall, Social Sciences Building (pink colour) and Humanities Building (green colour). If you click the heart next to the lectures you want to attend you will get a separate list under "My favourites".

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  • 09.30-09.50

    • Disability – Cured at Last!

      Catherine J Kudlick, professor emerita, San Fransisco State University, USA – Honorary doctor of philosophy

  • 10.00-10.20

    • Humans Were Created Differently so that They Might get to Know Each Other

      Mohammad Hakimi, professor, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesien – Doctor of medicine

    • Using Lasers to See How Molecules Move

      Kevin K Lehmann, professor, University of Virginia, USA – Honorary doctor of philosophy

  • 10.40-11.00

    • Enzymes, Light and Life – Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis

      Johannes Messinger, professor, Department of Plant Physiology

    • Heart Attacks – Understanding Causes, Preventing Consequences

      Nicholas L Mills, professor, The University of Edinburgh, UK – Honorary doctor of medicine

  • 11.10-11.30

    • Migrant Childbearing – What We Know, What We Don’t, and Why it Matters

      Eleonora Mussino, professor, Department of Sociology

    • The Secret Life of Arctic Plants – And How it Affects Us

      Ellen Dorrepaal, professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience

  • 11.40-12.00

    • It’s Easy to Be a Cause (Even for Non-Physical Things)

      Bram Vaassen, associate professor, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies – The Royal Skyttean Society Award in humanities

    • Northern Rivers as Sentinels of Environmental Change

      Ryan Sponseller, professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience
Latest update: 2025-12-18