SCAS News - 30 September, 2015
Three New Pro Futura Scientia Fellows Received Their Diplomas during a Ceremony at SCAS
On Thursday, 17 September, a ceremony in honour of the three new Fellows of the Pro Futura Scientia
Programme was held
in the Thunberg Lecture Hall at the Collegium. As announced in early June, the
three promising
scholars
were
selected after a rigorous selection procedure in the
tenth admittance round
of the programme since it was
initiated
by SCAS and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
in 1999.
At the ceremony, the new Pro Futura Scientia researchers - Renaud Gagné (Philology, University of
Cambridge), Joel Isaac
(History, University of Cambridge) and Andreas Stokke (Philosophy, Umeå
University; nominated by
Uppsala University) - were presented with diplomas
by
Professor Peter
Goddard
(Professor and former Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Fellow and former
Master,
St. John’s College, University of Cambridge).
They also
gave short presentations of their research
to the
invited audience. After a musical interlude,
Peter Goddard concluded the ceremony with a lecture
on
Houses of Refuge and Entertainment: The Development of Institutes for Advanced Study and
Their
Role
in Contemporary Academia.
The invitation to nominate researchers for the next round, Pro Futura Scientia XI, will be circulated to
universities in Sweden and abroad during the autumn term.
Read more:
Pro Futura Scientia History and Mission
Nominations and Selections
Pro Futura Scientia Fellows (1999-present)
Three Promising Researchers Have Been Admitted to
Pro Futura Scientia X (SCAS News - 8 June, 2015)
