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AWARDING CEREMONY CONFERRING THE TITLE OF DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UPON PROFESSOR NIKOLAS CHRISTAKIS, YALE UNIVERSITY

Monday 11 October 2021

The Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanasios K. Dimopoulos cordially invites you to attend the awarding ceremony conferring the title of doctor honoris causa by the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, upon the sociologist and physician Nikolas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Sciences, Director of the Laboratory of Human Nature, Yale University, U.S.A.

The ceremony will take place on Monday, October 11, 2021 at 18.00 at the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The event will be webcasted: https://youtu.be/srfimzxnZ2k.

Programme

Welcoming address by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Professor Meletios-Athanasios K. Dimopoulos

Presentation of Nikolas Christakis' scientific work  by Professor of Environmental Economics Andreas Papandreou, Department of Economics

Awarding ceremony:

- Presentation-reading of the Diploma by the Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor Stylianos Kotsios.

- Investiture of the awardee with the gown of the School of Economics and Political Sciences by the Dean, Professor Nikolaos Iriotis.

Lecture by the awardee entitled: "The Evolutionary Origins of Social Order - in Good Times and Bad Times".