Honorary doctors at the Artistic Faculty
The University of Gothenburg has appointed honorary doctors since 1907. Originally, the idea was to honor people who did not have academic background but who in various ways had contributed to the University. Today, many of the honorary doctors have academic background – and it's still an expression of appreciated contributions to the university's activity.
2021
Liz Lerman is a choreographer, artist, author and teacher at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, author, composer and professor in the graduate programme in the Rhetoric and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments at the University of California, Berkeley.
Read more in news article from November 11, 2021: Lerman and Trinh new honorary doctors at the Artistic Faculty.
2020
David Dencik, actor.
Dennis Atkinson, Professor emeritus at Goldsmiths, University, London and researcher within Visual Arts Education.
2019
Hito Steyerl, artist, filmmaker and Professor of Experimental Film and Video at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Thomas Ostermeier, theatre director and artistic director for the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin.
2018
Tom Eccles, curator and director of Bard CCS, New York.
Lena Willemark, folk music singer, Swedish national player (Riksspelman) and composer.
2017
Liz Wells, professor of Photographic Culture, at the University of Plymouth and internationally a central player in photography.
Christian Zacharias, pianist and conductor.
2016
Karen Barad, PhD in theoretical partical physics and today professor at the Department of Feminist Studies, University of California.
Arve Henriksen, trumpet player.
2015
Lois Keidan, Artist and co-founder and Director of the Live Art Development Agency, London.
2014
Björn Dahlström, designer and graphic designer.
2013
Helma Sanders-Brahms, film director.
Liz Aggiss, performanceartist, choreographer, film maker and writer.
2012
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
Madeleine Gustafsson, writer.
Albert Paley, artist.
Gert Z Nordström, professor.
2010
Kerala Johnson Snyder, Professor emerita at Rochester University, USA.
Alexei Shulgin, Musician, contemporary artist.
2009
Kjell Ingebretsen, conductor.
2008
Agnes Varda, filmmaker.
Jonathan Ive, Apple Senior Vice President of Industrial Design.
2007
Madeleine Olsson Eriksson, President of the Board of Sten A. Olsson's Foundation for Research and Culture.
Joseph Backstein
Director and Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
2006
Barbro Osher, Consul-General, San Francisco.
Tomas Söderberg, President of the Torsten Söderberg’s Foundation.
2005
Monika Tunbäck-Hanson, culture journalist, film critic.
Ingmar Lemhagen, teacher.
2004
David Hargreaves, Professor and researcher in music pedagogy.
Rut Jacobson, opera singer.
2003
Eldrid Lunden, authoress.
Sandra Ikse, artist/painter.
Eva Bergman, film director.
2000
Gert (Yat) Malmgren, dancer, drama pedagogue.
Roy Andersson, film director, author.
1999
Herbert Blomstedt, Professor, conductor.
Robert Frank, photographer.