Doctoral awards ceremonies are also amusing!

SUs högtid i Stadshuset.

Since the first photo was taken, some 150 years ago, there have been a lot of discussions about if the photo is “lying” or not.
Well of course it can lie, as well as it can show the raw truth.

But it can also say only … half the truth without lying!

The above photo was taken the 30th of September in the City Hall of Stockholm, during the yearly ceremony of the Stockholm University awarding the new doctoral awards.
The ceremony takes place yearly in front of some 1.000 guests, the leading of the University as well as the leaders of other Universities of the Scandinavian countries, other high academics and politicians, guests of honour from other countries and, of course, the new doctors with their closest relatives. The ceremony is pompus and everybody is dressed in tails and evening dresses.

Well, the idea of everybody there watching the film “the Lion King” was more than intriguing to me; “just show the photo without any comments!”)

But of course this was actually not the case!
The photo from the film was shown on the big screen for just a few seconds, during the speech of Dr Hillevi Ganetz about the use of the role of genders in the film industry.

The idea of everybody watching the Lion King was too tantalising not to “say half the truth”!

By the way, for all of you who attended the ceremony that evening, as well for anybody else interested in, the photos of the ceremony can be found here.