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Academic May festival
Research is no quick fix. And when it yields results, it is worth a real festival. Twelve professors, six honorary doctors - of which five are international researchers - and 56 PhD students were honoured at this year’s commencement ceremony.
“The creation and transmission of new knowledge is one of the most powerful levers we have for societal development.”
“But good research is no quick fix. Nor is good research about rubbing established notions the right way; science has again and again challenged things that are generally taken for granted.”
This was Vice-Chancellor Helen Dannetun’s welcome to the new PhD students, professors, and honorary doctors who were honoured at the spring commencement ceremony.
As is customary, it was inaugurated with a large university gala concert on 16 May, this time with reinforcement by the Pro Musica symphony orchestra from Stockholm, and especially world-renowned cellist Jakob Koranyi and violinist Malin Broman. Together with students in the Linköping Academic Orchestra, they performed Brahms’ double concerto, among other pieces. The whole concert was performed on Sunday as well, at the Musikaliska concert house in Stockholm, under conductor Michael Bartosch substituting for Merete Ellegaard.
Twelve professors, six honorary doctors and 56 PhD students crossed the parnassus – the symbolic bridge decorated by the inscription Semper sin in flore – “May they always bloom”.
Five of the six honorary doctors are internationally renowned researchers: Faculty of Health Sciences honorary doctor Joel Ernst; Faculty of Arts and Sciences honorary doctors Rosi Braidotti and Jörg M Winterberg; and Faculty of Science and Engineering honorary doctors Henry Etzkowitz and Charles W Tu.
And for the Swedish honorary doctor, the graduation meant he again got to take his place on the stage in front of a large audience. It was author Jonas Gardell, whose Thursday lecture on the AIDS breakout attracted an audience of almost a thousand people in Crusel Hall.
Among the guests present were new University Board chair Anna Ekström, also director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, and Minister for Education Jan Björklund, who in addition was one of the speakers at the following festival dinner.
Over 500 guests were treated with asparagus mousse with broiled scallops, glazed duck breast and cold blood orange soup. Entertainment during the dinner was provided by music students from Vadstena folk high-school and Elin Köning Andersson; the entire affair concluded, as is customary, both with a dance where Casanovas provided the music and a late light supper of the Swedish dish Janssons frestelse.
Text: Gunilla Pravitz
Photos: Magnus Johansson, Peter Holgersson
2013-05-20
Related links
LiU-News: Five researchers awarded honorary doctorates
YouTube: Commencement Ceremony spring 2013 (in Swedish)
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