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Homecoming Weekend: 4 days left!

It’s getting closer and closer and the weekend we’re all waiting for is almost here. Today we want to highlight activities during the weekend that is connected to certain faculties and departments.


Are you an LTH-alumni?
Friday 20 October 13:30-15:00
 Visning av förbränningsmotorlabbet på LTH (this event will only be held in Swedish)
Friday 20 October 16:00-19:00 Alumni Mingle with TLTH Alumni Association. Visit your old student association and meet other LTH-alumni while having some drinks, snacks and “smörgåstårta”.

Are you an EHL-alumni?
Friday 20 October 11:30-13:00
Alumni Lunch Seminar at the School of Economics and Management. Light mingle lunch followed by a lecture by Annika Winsth (Nordea chief economist) and Bo Lundgren (former Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs, leader of the opposition party and head of the National Debt Office) about challenges and risks in the Swedish economy today.
Friday 20 October 13:00-16:00 Open house at LUSEM Student Union.

Are you an alumni from the Faculty of Social Sciences?
Friday 20 October 13:00-16:00
Alumnidag på Institutionen för Psykologi (this event will only be held in Swedish).
Friday 20 October 13:30-17:00 Campus Helsingborgs inspirationsevent för alumner och After Work med Helsingborgs stad (this event will only be held in Swedish).

Are you an alumni from the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology?
Friday 20 October 10:30-17:00
Open house at the Department of Arts & Cultural Sciences
Friday 20 October 13:00-15:00 Asian Studies – A career for the future! Alumni lecture at the Centre for East and South-East Asian studies. Alumni Niall Duggan, Elinor Lumbang, and Sune Petersen will share their experiences with current students and alumni.
Friday 20 October 11:00-16:00 Open house at the student union for Humanities and Theology.
Saturday 21 October 12:00-16:00 Alumni Day at European Studies. Mingle, fika, lectures, alumni presentations and speed-dating.
Saturday 21 October 12:00-17:00 Welcome HOME to the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. There will be presentations on current research on the topic HOME, HOME-baked cookies and mingle with teachers and alumni. Separate registration required.
Sunday 22 October 13:00 Traditional game night at the Student Union of Humanities and Theology (HTS). An afternoon with boardgames and fika.

Are you an alumni from the Faculty of Science?
Friday 20 October 11:00-15:00
Open house at the Science Student Union
Friday 20 October 11:00-12:00, 15:00-16:00 and 17:00-18:00, Sunday 22 October 11:00-12:00 Physics and Laser Show.  A spectacular show which gives more than a taste of how fun and exciting physics and science can be. Awesome experiments follow one another at a swift pace. You get to see sound and light experiments, pressure and combustion ”attempts”, demonstrations of fiber optics, explosions and many other types of experiments. The shows are rounded off with a fantastic lasershow. More than 1000 lasers contribute to filling the room with beams. Smoke, lightning, rumbling thunder and evocative music are included. The show has been given around 2500 times for about half a million people in total.

Are you an alumni from the Faculty of Medicine?
Friday 20 October 12:00-13:00
Pea soup and Pancakes at the Student Union at the Faculty of Medicine.

Are you an alumni from the Faculty of Law?
Friday 20 October 14:00-16:00
Alumni Afternoon at the Faculty of Law. Listen to presentations about new, interesting research, join the guided tour and have some fika.

Are you an alumni from Lund University’s Centre for Sustainability Studies or the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics?
Friday 20 October 14:15-16:00
Current research in Sustainability Science & LUCSUS and the education in Sustainability Science over the past years and future pathways. Lectures and mingle.
Saturday 21 October 14:00-16:00 ”Interdisciplinary Education for the Future: Meeting Global Challenges”. A seminar with researchers from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) and Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies.


We hope that you find something interesting from your faculty or department. If not, check out everything else that’s happening during the weekend here.

2017-10-16

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