This year’s Spring Conferment Ceremony to be held in the Cathedral

Because of the extensive renovations underway of the University Main Building, this year’s conferment ceremony will be held in Uppsala Cathedral.

In the ceremonial act of conferment 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

(All times are precise)

07:00 Canon salute from the castle grounds

08:00 Ringing of the large bell in Uppsala Cathedral

11:15 The Cathedral is opened to the audience. Tickets are required for admission, which can be collected for free on a first-come, first-served basis, at the reception desk, S:t Olofsgatan 10B, Thursday 26 May 10:00–16:30 (closed for lunch 12:00–12:45). On Friday 27 May, tickets can be collected in the cathedral entrance hall, in good time before the ceremony. Seats must be taken no later than 12:00. Enter through the main (western) entrance.

11:45 Promotors, promovendi and other participants of the academic procession gather by the southern entrance, in accordance with instructions given in the order of procession. Dress: Tail coat and black vest or full-length dress with shoulders covered. Are you taking part in the procession? Register here.

12:15 The Conferment Ceremony begins with the academic procession.

Welcoming words by Vice-Chancellor Professor Eva Åkesson.

Lecture by the promotor of the Faculty of Arts, professor Tor Broström on the topic of “Climate and Cultural Heritage”.

Conferment in all nine faculties. During the conferment, music composed by J. C. F. Haeffner, J. A. Josephson, Stefan Karpe, Lars-Erik Larsson, Oscar Lindberg and others, will be performed.

After the conferment in the faculties of theology, law, medicine and pharmacy, words of remembrance are spoken by Professor Robert Appelbaum, promotor at the Faculty of Languages, over the deceased among those conferred in 1966.

Congratulatory speech to this year’s jubilee doctors by Caisa Lycken, president of Uppsala Student Union.

Address by jubilee doctor, Professor Stig Strömholm.

The procession exits the cathedral. (Guests are asked to remain seated until the procession has exited in its entirety.)

The music during the ceremony is performed by the Royal Academic Orchestra conducted by Director Musices, Professor Stefan Karpe, and University Organist Andrew Canning.

The cannon salute in the morning at 7:00 and during the ceremony is performed by Jämtlands fältartilleri.

Read more about the conferment ceremony.

Questions about the Conferment Ceremony?
doktorspromotion@uadm.uu.se