2023-08-17 16:07:00
The three future doctors honoris causa distinguished themselves for their “commitment whose strength, clarity and sincerity arouse respect, even admiration”, ULiège said on Thursday in a press release.
A Nobel Prize in Economics
Aurélien Barrau is an astrophysicist and philosopher, poet and awakener of conscience for the safeguard of the planet. Esther Duflo is an economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, whose work focuses on development economics, poverty, health, education, access to credit and the fight once morest corruption. Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and activist, notably for the LGBTQIA+ cause.
For the rector Anne-Sophie Nyssen, the choice of these personalities is motivated by the desire to reconcile art and science “to achieve the civilizational metamorphosis which will have to profoundly change our perceptions of the world and re-enchant it, as well as allowing the environmental and social transition essential to our survival.
The choice of these personalities is motivated by the desire to reconcile art and science.
The title of doctor honoris causa is conferred by a two-thirds majority by the academic council, which brings together all the professors and lecturers who are members of the academic body of ULiège.
This honorary distinction allows the university community to salute scientists of great value, rewarded for the remarkable quality of their work and their fundamental contribution to the progress of society, as well as eminent personalities from the political, economic, social or cultural world. .
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