Prof. Raf Vanderstraeten (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences) will award the symbolic Sarton Chair to Prof. Frédéric Keck. Prof. Keck will deliver the following lecture: 'Collecting and Freezing Birds and Viruses: From "Cynegetic Power" to "Cryopolitics" '.
Official Sarton medal award ceremony for Prof. Lucien Bély, led by Prof. Rik Opsommer (Faculty of Law and Criminology). Prof. Bély will deliver the following lecture: 'Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes'.
Official Sarton medal award ceremony for Prof. Jan De Houwer, led by Prof. Geert Crombez (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences). Prof. De Houwer will will deliver the following lecture: 'On the relevance of B. F. Skinner for the future of behavioral science'.
Official Sarton medal award ceremony for Prof. Thomas Mettenleiter, led by Prof. Hans Nauwynck (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine). Prof. Mettenleiter will deliver the following lecture: 'Tracing the roots of modern infectiology – Koch, Loeffler and the discovery of viruses'.
Official Sarton medal award ceremony for Prof. Carl Nightingale, led by Prof. Michiel Dehaene (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture). Prof. Nightingale will deliver the following lecture: 'Building Our Urban Planet: Terraformation in History, Theory, and Practice'.
Official Sarton medal award ceremony for Prof. Yves Segers, led by Prof. Guido Van Huylenbroeck (Faculty of Bioscience Engineering). Prof. Segers will deliver the following lecture: 'Who Knows Best? Authority, Mediation and Resistance in Agrarian Knowledge Production and Circulation in Europe, 1800s-2000s'.
