Nobel Calling 2024

Nobel Calling – open events in the spirit of Nobel

At the beginning of October, the eyes of the world are directed towards Stockholm when this year's Nobel laureates is announced. During Nobel Calling, you meet researchers, Nobel laureates, academy members and many more when the Nobel Prize Museum together with Stockholm University and other actors organize activities. During the 2024 Nobel Calling, Stockholm University offers open lectures, panel discussions, lab visits and a competition in social media.

Stockholm University's activities during Nobel Calling

Visit the brain and sound laboratories

Visit researchers in experimental psychology at Gösta Ekman's laboratories at Stockholm University. Among other things, the researchers study unconscious learning and the brain's information processing when localizing sounds.
Date: October 7 at 2 pm (English) at 5 pm (Swedish)
Date: October 8 at 2 pm (English) at 5 pm (Swedish)
Location: The Laboratory for Perception Research and Psychophysics at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University

Visit the lab mapping ancient DNA

Visit the scientists working to study ancient DNA from animals, humans and sediments. The researchers study, among other things, the DNA of million-year-old mammoths and have mapped migration patterns in the Nordics during the Stone Age and the Viking Age.
Date: 9 October, 2 pm (Swedish) and 5 pm (English)
Date: October 10, 2 pm (English) and 5 pm (Swedish)
Location: Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University

Panel discussion: Cracking codes

A panel discussion with researchers from Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Collage of Technology about cracking codes in research and the fascination for scientific challenges
Date: Monday 7 October
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Location: The Nobel Prize Museum
(This event is only in Swedish)

When AI meets the climate crisis – threat or opportunity?

Lecture with Victor Galaz, docent at the Stockholm Resilience Center who soon will publish a book on AI linked to climate and environment.
Date: Tuesday, October 8
Time: 16.00 – 17.00
Location: The Nobel Prize Museum
(This event is only in Swedish)

Reflections about this year´s Nobel prize in literature

An open conversation with Carin Franzén and Bo G Ekelund, both professors of literary studies, before this year's announcement.
Date: Thursday 10 October
Time: 12.45 – 13.15
Location: University Library, Frescati
(This event is only in Swedish)
More information will come

More activities will be added to the list.
 

All activities are free to participate in, but registration may be required.

For more infromation about activities in Stockholm during Nobel Calling visit the website of the Nobel Prize Museum.

Nobel Prize Museum
 

Material from previous years

• Nobel Walk at Stockholm University  Olof Somell from the Nobel Prize Museum visits places at Frescati connected to the Nobel Prize.
• Quantum mechanics is a beautiful thing and it is mind expanding (lecture)
• Bert Bolin—founder of the climate panel and world-leading scientist (slideshow)
• Svante Arrhenius – Sweden's first Nobel Laureate (slideshow)
• How are Nobel Laureates chosen? (conversation at Stockholm University)

Lectures in Swedish

• Ukrainas litteratur i skuggan av invasionen
• Glädjen som drivkraft för forskning och kreativitet
• Vår stund på jorden - ett samtal om människans plats i Nobellitteraturen 
• Kan Nobelpriset hjälpa oss att rädda världen?