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Lectures by SLU´s new honorary doctors, 2022

Published: 03 October 2022
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SLU warmly welcomes everyone interested to attend the lectures held by SLU´s latest honorary doctors on Friday 7 October in Uppsala. The lectures will provide exciting insights into topics ranging from communication between vets and animal owners, to plant diseases that are, or may become, serious threats to global food security. Among the honorary doctors are the winner of the World Food Prize in 2021 and one of the first women officials in the Swedish forestry sector. The lectures are open to the public and will be webcast.

The popular science lectures will take place in the Loftet lecture theatre, SLU Uppsala. The lectures start at 9:00 and finish at 15:00, and are open to the public. Five lectures are given in English, three in Swedish, as is evident from the lecture titles.

Programme 7 October

09:00 Communication counts
Madeleine Fogde, Programme Director, Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science

09:30 Transformation of food systems:
Aquatic foods for nourishing people and planet
Shakuntala Thilsted, Dr, Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science

10:00 Coffee/Tea

10:30 Skogen, människan och naturen ur olika perspektiv
– Reflektioner från mitt skogsliv
Monika Stridsman, Forester, Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences

11:00 Challenges with forest logistics
Mikael Rönnqvist, Professor, Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences

11:30 Food, fungi and the future
Sarah Gurr, Professor, Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science

12:00 Lunch break

13:30 Myten om vidareförädling
Rune Andersson, Director, Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science

14:00 Den tredje agrara revolutionen,
från produktion och konsumtion till relation
Gunnar Rundgren, Farmer, Honorary Doctor of Agricultural Science

14:30 Quantitative evidence versus human behaviours, attitudes, and desires:
the need for a broader approach
Brenda Bonnett, Dr, Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

If you cannot attend in person in Uppsala, the lectures will also be webcast (starts 7 October at 9 am). Recorded versions of the lectures will be published after the event.

Read more about this year's honorary doctors, webcast etc. on https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/academic-ceremonies/doktorspromotion-2022/.

We hope to see you there!

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