CONFERENCE
Chairman of Senate, Professor Maris Klavins and Rector of the University of Latvia, Professor Marcis Auzins will open the Ceremonial UL Senate meeting. During the meeting diplomas of UL Honorary Doctors and Professors Emeritus will be awarded. The participants of the official ceremony will enjoy the performances of UL choir “Aura” and UL male vocal group “Dancis”.
This year Professor Juhani Laurinkari, University of Eastern Finland; Professor Hans Jochen Schiewer, the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and Professor Johannes Karl Kaspar Beck from Germany will receive UL Honorary Doctoral degrees.
The UL diplomas “Professors Emeritus” will be awarded to Jurijs Kuzmins, UL, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art; Andrejs Reinfelds, UL, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics; Ingrida Kramina and Viesturs Vecgravis, UL, Faculty of Humanities.
This is the third consecutive year when a promotion ceremony for UL doctoral students will take place - a renewed tradition of the University of Latvia to celebrate the new PhD holders. During the ceremony new doctors will receive UL degree certificates, UL doctoral scarfs and UL doctoral silver badges. Doctors who have defended their doctoral thesis during 2010/2011 as well as those who did it earlier are invited.
The University of Latvia was founded on September 28, 1919 and as the nation’s historically significant educational, scientific and cultural centre, it combines and develops the main Latvia’s teaching and research potential.
Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.
Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.