SCAS News - 20 September, 2016

SCAS Participated in Kulturnatten for the First Time

On Saturday, 10 September, the Collegium participated with an event at Kulturnatten (the Culture Night)
in Uppsala for the first time. The event was a joint collaboration with the Botanic Garden and the Royal
Academic Orchestra, Uppsala University and featured both a concert and a lecture.

In the Collegium’s Thunberg Hall, Marie-Christine Skuncke held a short lecture on Carl Peter Thunberg,
Japan och Linneanum (in Swedish), a theme which has close links to SCAS both in terms of its location
in Linneanum and the research on Thunberg which has been carried out at the Collegium. Marie-Christine
Skuncke, who has been a SCAS Long-term Fellow and Fellow in residence, wrote a large part of her book
Carl Peter Thunberg, Botanist and Physician: Career-Building across the Oceans in the Eighteenth Century
during her time as at the Collegium. The book, which was launched in September 2014, was the first book
ever to be published by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Skuncke is Professor em. of Literature
at Uppsala University.

In conjunction with the lecture, the Royal Academic Orchestra and soloists Theo Hillborg (saxophone) and
Marie Johansson (clarinet) performed works by Anders Hillborg and W.A. Mozart in the adjacent Linnaeus
Hall. Anders Hillborg is one of Sweden's leading composers of today and his music has been performed by
renowned conductors and orchestras across the world. He was Composer in Residence at SCAS during the
academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12.