Dies Academicus 2014
Programme
Friday, 23 May 2014 - 10:00 am - Amphimax UNIL - Sorge - Auditoire Erna Hamburger
Speeches by
- Mrs Carine Carvalho, President of the University Council
- Mrs Clémence Demay and Mr Olivier Rossi, co-Présidents of the Federation of Student Associations (FAE)
- Mrs Anne-Catherine Lyon, State Councillor, Head of the Department of Education, Youth and Culture of the Canton of Vaud
- Mr Dominique Arlettaz, Rector
Doctorates honoris causa
- Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Professor James Arthur Beckford - Faculty of Law, Criminal Sciences and Public Administration
Professor Geert Bouckaert - Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Professor Donatella della Porta - Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Professor Susan Gasser
Lausanne University Prize
- Professor Doris Jakubec
Musical intermediates
- Lausanne University Choir
Conducted by Fruzsina Szuromi
Accompaniment (piano): Atena Carte
Selected pieces from Maurice Duruflé's Requiem and Zoltán Kodály's Missa brevis
The Dies Academicus 2014 video
Presentation of the Graduate Institute of Public Administration
Film on research at the University of Lausanne
University prizes and honorary doctorates
Professor James Arthur Beckford is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
A sociologist by training, James Arthur Beckford is a professor at the University of Warwick (UK).
More info: Article from Uniscope no 593
Professor Geert Bouckaert is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
An experienced researcher and great teacher, Geert Bouckaert is Professor of Public Management at the Catholic University of Leuven.
More info: Article from Uniscope no 593
Professor Donatella della Porta receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Science at the European University Institute (Florence).
More info: Article from Uniscope no 593
Professor Susan Gasser has been awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa from the University of Lausanne.
Specialising in the structure and spatial organisation of chromatin, Susan Gasser is Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) Bâle.
More info: Article from Uniscope no 593
Professor Doris Jakubec is awarded the Prix de l'Université at the 2014 Dies academicus.
In 1998 she launched the Ramuz project, which includes the novels published in 2005 in the Pléiade and the Oeuvres complètes, which were completed by Slatkine in 2013.
More info: Article from l'Uniscope no 593