Today is Valentine’s Day and the exhibition Love@Lund 2020 is making its premiere. For those who can’t be at tonight's event, you can check out the digital version of the exhibition with love stories that started in Lund...
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Matt Agnew is Australia’s latest "Bachelor" from the TV-show with the same name. The dapper doctor (PhD) got his Master of Science with a major in Astrophysics at Lund University in 2015. He took some time from his hectic schedule to talk to Lundensaren and, among other things, revealed what he is doing on Valentine’s Day as well as shared some exclusive pictures from his time in Lund.
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Psychology researchers from Lund University, McGill University in Canada, and Royal Holloway in the UK, have found that a magic trick can lead Democrats and Republicans alike to believe that they are more open-minded towards opposing presidential candidates than they thought they were.
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He is best known as the physician on the TV programme Fråga Lund, but Henrik Widegren has also written viral hit songs such as “A Statistically Significant Love Song” and “Never Google Your Symptoms”.
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14 February, Lund – Ticket release for Kunskapskrogen (event in Swedish)
14 February, Lund – Valentine's Day at Vattenhallen Science Centre
17 – 23 February, Lund – Half-term at Vattenhallen Science Centre
17 – 19 February, Lund – Half-term at the Botanical Garden
19 February, Lund – Science Lunch. When bacteria mutate (event in Swedish)
27 February – 14 November, Lund - Humanities 2020
19 March – Open House at Campus Helsingborg
28 March, Malmö – Regional Final of the Swedish Academies of Music Song Contest (SMASK)
2 April, Lund – LUCSUS Seminar: Folk notions of sustainability: How to study them and why they matter
13 May, Seattle, USA – Alumni & Friends event, Save the Date!
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In the mid-1800s, Lund academics loved France. Napoleon III’s empire was seen as a power that “with its spiritual and material cultivation, was at the forefront of Europe’s countries” and themselves as “Frenchmen of the North”. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, there was no doubt where sympathies lay: “La Marseillaise was sung communally, both at the Academic Society and around Lundagård,” wrote a student of that time. However, France’s defeat in the war caused a shift in sympathies, something that, among other things, was reflected in the choice of scholarly language. Archivist Fredrik Tersmeden writes about when Lund academics switched from French to German.
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