Visiting professors and adjunct professors

The ceremony on 6 November

The academic ceremony will take place at Halmstad Theater. For you, it begins with mingling and a procession. Other items on the programme include the inauguration of professors, the conferment of doctoral degrees and the recognition of other academic achievements. Music and various ceremonial speeches are also part of the ceremony.

Mingle and procession

Before the ceremony, those who will participate in the procession gather for a mingle. There you will borrow one of Halmstad University’s professor’s cape. When you arrive at Halmstad Theater, staff on site will inform you where the mingle is taking place.

The procession includes marshals, Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Chairman of the University Governing Board, guests of honour, installandi and promovendi, honorary doctors, Student Union President, professors who have already been inaugurated, visiting professors and adjunct professors. The procession goes ceremonially – to music – in formation (two rows) through the theatre’s auditorium to the stage. Staff on site will inform you where in the procession you should be.

When the procession enters the theatre auditorium, the installandi and promovendi go up on stage and take their seats. Other processional participants, including the University’s already inaugurated professors, visiting professors and adjunct professors, go to designated seats in the front rows of the auditorium.

Guests who are to be recognised during the ceremony, including visiting professors and adjunct professors, are welcomed onto the stage by the ceremony’s presenter when it is time for them to be recognised.

Registration, dinner and seating

You have the opportunity to bring a guest with you to the ceremony and dinner. You must register yourself and your guest. Registration is done via the link in the email invitation that you will receive in September. Please note that the invitation and registration link are personal and non-transferable.

You and your guest participate free of charge. You are both seated. Staff on site will inform you where to sit.

During dinner, entertainment is offered and after dinner there will be dancing.

Guests at the ceremony

You can invite several guests to the ceremony free of charge. You must register your guests. You do this by sending an email to the University’s event group. Guests who participate only during the ceremony will be instructed by staff on site on where to sit in the auditorium.

Register guests for (ceremony only): event@hh.se

Dress code

• In the procession and during the ceremony, the University’s already inaugurated professors, visiting professors and adjunct professors wear the University’s professor’s capes. After the ceremony, the capes are collected. Other participants in the procession: formal attire or dark suit.

• Other guests at the ceremony and dinner: festive attire.

Use of doctoral hat

If you have been conferred and have a doctoral hat, you are welcome to bring it with you to the academic ceremony. Until the conferment part of the ceremony, the hat should be on your lap. You put on your hat at the same time as the promoter puts on their conferment wreath and encourages the guests who have a doctor’s hat to put on their hat. You then have your hat on your head for the rest of the ceremony. Foreign doctoral hats are allowed. A general rule for the use of doctoral hats is that it is worn when the promoter wears their wreath.