Public lectures on campus

The university’s new professors and honorary doctors will be holding public lectures on campus 28 and 29 September.

On 29 September Dean Johan Roos will, together with 11 others, be installed as professor at Jönköping University at the Inauguration and Conferment Ceremony. At the ceremony 39 doctoral degrees as well as six honorary doctorates will be confered. In connection with this the professors and honorary doctors will hold public lectures.

Students, staff and interested members of the general public are welcome to attend the public lectures.

Below you will find the programme for the honorary doctors and professors at Jönköping International Business School.

Academic Friday 28 September
Venue: JP-aulan (B 1024) Jönköping International Business School

10.00-10.45 "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World"
Professor Deirdre McCloskey, Presentatör: Helene Ahl

11.00-11.45 "Moving Forward from Entrepreneurial Failure"
Professor Dean Andrew Shepherd, Presentatör: Johan Wiklund

Inaugural lectures Saturday 29 September
Venue: Östbosalen Hc218, School of Education and Communcation

9.00 – 9.30 Gunnar Rimmel "Accounting Rules! – Far Beyond a Dull Bean Counter’s Image"

9.40 – 10.10 Charlotta Mellander "Sweden in the Creative Age"

11.00 – 11.30 Mattias Nordqvist "Innovating Strategy Processes"

10.20 – 10.50 Johan Roos "Entrepreneurial Family Firms: Challenges and Opportunities"

Venue: Hb221, School of Education and Communication

11.00 – 11.30 Thomas Holgersson "Analysis of High-Dimensional Data"

See the full programme