Spring Conferment Ceremony 31 May
The 31 May is the day of Uppsala University’s Spring Conferment Ceremony. 90 new PhDs and 15 jubilee doctors will be conferred under festive forms in the University Grand Auditorium. The celebrations continue through the evening with dinner at Uppsala Castle.
At the festive conferment ceremony in the University Grand Auditorium the new PhDs receive honorary symbols; a doctoral hat or a laurel wreath as well as a diploma. As PhDs they are also entitled to a third symbol, the ring. Those who received their PhD degrees fifty years ago are invited to the ceremony as jubilee doctors.
In the evening there will be dinner and dancing at Uppsala Castle. Almost 700 people usually take part in the conferment ceremony dinner – the new PhDs and jubilee doctors with their families, specially invited honorary guests as well as teachers and other employees.
Programme
07.00 Canon salute from the castle grounds, performed by Jämtlands fältartilleri under the command of major Mikael Andersson.
08.00 Ringing of the large bell in Uppsala Cathedral.
11.30 The University Grand Auditorium is opened. Tickets are required for admission, and can be collected for free at the caretakers office in the entrance hall of the University Main Building starting on Thursday 30 May 12.00.
11.45 Promotors, promovendi and other participants of the academic procession gather in the galleries of the University Main Building, in accordance with instructions given in the order of procession.
12.15 The Conferment Ceremony in the Grand Auditorium begins with the academic procession.
Welcoming words by Vice-Chancellor Professor Eva Åkesson.
Lecture by the promotor of the Faculty for Science and Technology, Professor Hans Siegbahn on the subject of scientific intuition – sense and gut feeling.
Conferment in all nine faculties. During the conferment, music will be performed composed by J. A. Josephson, Stefan Karpe, Lars-Erik Larsson and others.
After the conferment in the faculties of theology, law, medicine and pharmacy, words of remembrance are spoken by Professor Carl Fredrik Bergström, promotor at the Faculty of Law, over the deceased among those conferred in 1963.
Congratulatory speech to this year’s jubilee doctors by Klara Ellström, president of Uppsala Student Union.
Address by jubilee doctor Professor Lars Bäcklund.
The procession exits the auditorium. (Guests are asked to remain seated until the procession has exited in its entirety.)
Hosts of the conferment ceremony: Vice-Chancellor Professor Eva Åkesson and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Anders Malmberg.
The music during the ceremony is performed by the Royal Academic Orchestra conducted by director musices, professor Stefan Karpe.
Anna Malmberg