Award Ceremony 21 September 7:30 p.m., Frimurerlosjen

Concert – Trondheim Chamber Music Festival

Trondheim Soloists
Trine Knutsen, flute
Marianne Thorsen, violin
Håkon Magnar Skogstad, piano
Erling With Aasgaard, cembalo
Geir Inge Lotsberg, artistic leader

Hyfer Festival opening

Opening of Hyfer, NTNU’s futures festival
by Rector Anne Borg

Gunnerus Award Ceremony

Jianguo Liu receives the Gunnerus Award 2021,
by President DKNVS May Thorseth and Rector  NTNU Anne Borg

Afterparty

Join the Hyfer Afterparty at Sellanraa and Kunsthall Trondheim, after the official opening of Hyfer! Advance registration Afterparty. 

Gunnerus Award seminar 22 September 09-12, Rådssalen

Jianguo Liu:
Pandas, People and Planetary Sustainability

How could a rise in the divorce rate threaten the Chinese giant panda? Professor Jianguo (Jack) Liu will talk about that – and other connections between people and nature – in his Gunnerus Award lecture. A holistic approach to sustainability is at the core of Professor Liu’s research. He coined the groundbreaking concept of “telecoupling”, and will tell us more about what this entails in his lecture.

Professor Liu holds the “Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability” at Michigan State University, where he also is director of Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability.

Francesca Verones:
How does a life-cycle approach help to address biodiversity impacts?

Francesca Verones is Professor at Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. Dr. Verones’ work is related to developing models for projected impacts on aquatic, marine and terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity. Human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems call for novel methods to assess, quantify, and spatially differentiate their extent and consequences. Verones focuses on advancing the field of life cycle assessment (LCA) to improve and complement this widely used assessment approach.

Elizabeth Barron:
Listening to the voices of sustainability

Elizabeth Barron is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at NTNU. Dr. Barron’s research interests are broadly on understanding different knowledge systems for addressing human-environment challenges in the areas of conservation and resource management, alternative economics, and sustainability. Her current research is on place-based sustainability theory and practice. From 2018-2021 she is serving as a coordinating lead author for an IPBES Assessment on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species.

Panel discussion moderated by Ruth Astrid Sæter

 

Panel participants: Jianguo Liu, Elizabeth Barron, Francesca Verones and May Thorseth.

Kirsti Huke (vocals) and Bjørn Marius Hegge (double bass) are musicians from the highly merited jazz education at NTNU. They will perform at the seminar. Photos: K.Huke: Lena Knutli, B.M.Hegge: Hegge