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".