Past Lectures

Nikolaus Rajewsky

Scientific Director, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology of the Max Delbrück Center, Professor, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Norbert Krüger

Professor Norbert Krüger, The Faculty of Engineering, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, SDU Robotics, and DIAS Chair of Engineering

Erin Leahey

Professor and Director of Sociology at the University of Arizona

Trine Flockhart

Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at SDU and DIAS Chair of Business and Social Sciences.

Mirta Galesic

Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria.

Stefan Hell

Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany

Eric Arnould

Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Aalto University Business School, founding figure of Consumer Culture Theory and globally acknowledged anthropologist of market and consumption studies.

Sarah Hawkes

Professor of Global Public Health at University College London, UK and co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.

Sara Hobolt

Sutherland Chair and Professor in the Department of Government, London School of Economics and author of “Political Entrepreneurs”.

Morten Meldal

Professor in chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022. He was awarded jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".

Bron Taylor

Professor of Religion, Nature and Environmental Ethics at The University of Florida. His books include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), Avatar and Nature Spirituality (2013), and Ecological Resistance Movements (1995).

Anders Engberg-Pedersen - DIAS Chair of Humanities

Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department for the Study of Culture and an affiliate of the Center for War Studies at SDU and DIAS Chair of Humanities.

International Women's Day at DIAS

Various lectures on International Women's Day on women in academia.

Teresa Cadierno - DIAS Chair of Humanities

Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Language and Communication at SDU and DIAS Chair of Humanities.

Patrick Emmenegger

Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the School of Economics and Political Science, University of St. Gallen. He is the co-editor of the Socio-Economic Review (since 2017), the chair of the PhD Program in International Affairs and Political Economy (since 2016)

Jenny Andersson

Professor of the history of ideas at Uppsala University, PI of research programme on Neoliberalism in the Nordics and author of The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post-Cold War Imagination

Sebastian Mernild - DIAS Chair of Climate Science

Professor of Climate Change and Glaciology at SDU, director of SDU Climate Cluster and DIAS Chair of Climate Science

Nancy Folbre

Professor Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College in the United States

Kaare Lund Rasmussen

Professor, dr.scient., member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Ian Harris

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and author of "Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo"

Ronnie N. Glud - DIAS Chair of Biology

DIAS Chair of Biology and Professor at the Department of Biology and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (Nordcee) at SDU

Matthew Caruana Galizia

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, software engineer, and director of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

John Sutton - Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Mental processes are not only in your head but interlaced with the world around you: Interdependence and vulnerability in the cognitive sciences

Donald E. Canfield - DIAS Chair of Biology

M.Phil. and Ph.D. Donald E. Canfield is a Professor of ecology at the Department of Biology and Head of the Research Unit at the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE) at SDU. Furthermore, Professor Donald E. Canfield is the former director of NordCEE, a center funded for 10 years by the Danish National Research Foundation.

Louise Barrett

Louise Barrett, University of Lethbridge

Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau

Professor of Psychology, Kingston University, London.

Ulf B. Christensen

Ulf B. Christensen graduated as a M.Sc. at SDU in Odense and is now CEO and founder of Pentabase.

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi - DIAS Chair of Technical Sciences

M.Sc., PhD., Dr. Scient. Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi is the founder and current Head of Centre for Nano Optics at SDU (SDU NanoOptics).

Martin Moore

Martin Moore is a Lecturer in Medical History at the University of Exeter. He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary environments, including at Exeter’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and on the collaborative project ‘Waiting Times’ across Exeter and Birkbeck, University of London.

Thomas Palaima

Tom Palaima is Robert M. Armstrong Professor of Classics and founding director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (est. 1986) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Maria Timofeeva - DIAS Fellow

Ph.D. Dr. Maria Timofeeva is an Assistant Professor at the Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography at the Department of Public Health at SDU. Her research interest is cancer epidemiology with a specific focus on genetic and molecular epidemiology of cancer and a complex interplay between genetic and environmental causes of disease.

Oded Galor

Oded Galor was awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa from UC Louvain and from Poznań University of Economics & Business. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is a co-director of the NBER research group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics, a Research Fellow of CEPR, GLO, and IZA, a Research Associate of the NBER and CESifo, a Sackler Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow of the Economics Department at the Hebrew University.

Pieter Vanhuysse - DIAS Senior Fellow

Pieter Vanhuysse, PhD (LSE) is Full Professor of Politics and Public Policy at SDU's Department of Political Science and Public Management and the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies, where he leads the Societies and Demographic Change research group.

Huimin Zhao

Dr. Huimin Zhao is the Steven L. Miller Chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Kaare Christensen - DIAS Chair of Health Sciences

Professor Kaare Christensen, MD, PhD, DMSc, is the Head of Research at the unit for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography (EBB) at the Department of Public Health at SDU.

Benjamin Jäger - DIAS Fellow

Ph.D. Benjamin Jäger is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) and Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP³-Origins) at SDU.

Mark Maslin

Professor at University College London

Kevin O’Rourke

Kevin O’Rourke is a Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former Research Director of CEPR.

Reidar Pedersen

Professor Reidar Pedersen is one of the leading scholars in ethics and communication in health care and has worked in this area since 2003. Among his many fields of expertise are questions concerning informed consent, end of life ethics, advance care planning, resource allocation, coercion and involvement of next of kin, especially in mental health care. His research includes qualitative and quantitative methods, intervention studies, systematic reviews, and theoretical and philosophical analyses, which has resulted in a large number of publications.

Edward Baggs - DIAS Fellow

Ph.D. Edward is Assistant Professor at the Department of Language and Communication at SDU.

Christine Stabell Benn - DIAS Chair of Health Sciences

Dr. Christine Stabell Benn is Professor at the Odense Patient data Explorative Network (OPEN) at the Faculty of Health Sciences at SDU and Professor in Global Health since 2013. She is also Professor and Head of the Bandim Health Project at SDU.

Anthony Fernandez - DIAS Fellow

Ph.D. Anthony Vincent Fernandez is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics at SDU.

Josie Billington

Josie Billington is Professor in English at the University of Liverpool, specialising in Victorian Literature and in literary reading and mental health.

Nikos Ntoumanis

Nikos Ntoumanis was born in Kos, Greece. He received his PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Exeter (UK) in 1999. His longest period of employment (2001-2014) has been at the University of Birmingham, one of the top universities (member of the Russel Group) in the UK.

Johan Samsing and Daniel D'Orazio

Johan Samsing is Assistant Professor in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University. Daniel D'Orazio is Assistant Professor in Astrophysics and Planetary Science, also at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University.

Peter H. Lindert

Economic historian Peter H. Lindert is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California – Davis and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His works relating to the DIAS event include his prize-winning book Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century (2004), the book Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (2016, with Jeffrey Williamson), and now Making Social Spending Work (2021).