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Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 100th Dies Natalis 8 November 2013 Academic Ceremony Cortèges and academic hymns Flashback 100 years in retrospective Welcome Pauline van der Meer Mohr Pauline van der Meer Mohr, President of the Executive Board Erasmus School of Economics Centennial Lecture A course made good Professor Philip Hans Franses, Dean of the Erasmus School of Economics Honorary Doctorates Ceremony Intermezzo Oblivion (Astor Piazolla) for dancers & brass Dies Natalis Lecture Professor Philip Hans Franses Erasmus University’s Impact on students, science and society Professor Henk Schmidt, Rector magnificus Change of rectorship Professor Henk Schmidt and Professor Huibert Pols The future needs an open mind Professor Huibert Pols, Rector magnificus Finale Reception Professor Henk Schmidt Dinner and concert Buffetdinner Concert Rotterdam Philharmonic Intermezzo Professor Huibert Pols Cortèges and academic hymns Performers (see page 27): Choir Solists Jeugdtheater Hofplein Erasmus Students Choir ‘Rotterdamsch Schoon’ Rotterdam Philharmonic Brass Community singing Entrance of student organisations lo vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat 4 nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas Hoc est amoris poculum, Dum nihil est in poculo, Nos iungit amicitia doloris est antidotum iam repleatur denuo et vinum praebet gaudia Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat Io vivat nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas nostrorum sanitas Entrance of executives, guests, laureates and professors Gaudeamus igitur Vivat academia Iuvenes dum sumus Vivant professores 5 Gaudeamus igitur Vivat academia Iuvenes dum sumus Vivant professores Post iucundam iuventutem Vivat membrum quodlibet Post molestam senectutem Vivant membra quaelibet Nos habebit humus Vivant senatores Nos habebit humus Vivant senatores Soloists Pupils of the Hofplein Youth Theatre, Lily Rose Betist & Merlijn van Hinthem 6 Steven D. Levitt Steven D. Levitt, born on 29 May1967 in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D in Eco - nomics from MIT and, before moving to Chicago in 1997, was a junior fellow at Harvard University. 8 Levitt is an applied economist who works on a broad set of topics including crime, corruption, sports, and education. He is one of the most creative economists of the last two decades. He has convincingly shown that economic theory can be usefully applied to a much broader set of issues than previously thought. Moreover, his work has uncovered causal effects that are of vital importance to policy makers and social scientists alike. His great academic achievements are evident from his impressive publications, of which many are heavily cited. While most of his publications have appeared in top-5 economics journals, he has also published in top journals in criminology and political science. Further, Levitt has substantially contributed to the profession by serving as a co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy for many years. Levitt is extremely economist under the age of forty. In the spring of 2006, helpful and stimulating to young scholars, both from he was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who his own department and abroad. Shape Our World.” In his most recent research, Professor Levitt has examined issues such as how to prevent shootings among at-risk youth, how to identify terrorists using banking data, whether child safety seats and seat belts are effective in5protecting children from injury, and how financial incentives impact performance of teachers and students. Levitt is probably best known for his book Freakonomics, published in 2005 and co- 9 written with journalist Stephen Dubner. The book has made key insights in economics accessible to a broad Professor Robert Dur, honorary promoter audience. It was listed on the New York Times Best Department of Economics Sellers list for more than 2 years and has sold more Erasmus School of Economics than 4 million copies worldwide. In the mean time, a sequel has appeared, entitled SuperFreakonomics, as well as a movie and a popular blog, supported by a Twitter account with more than half a million followers. Levitt has received already many honors. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation in 2000, and in 2003, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association as the most out standing American Cass R. Sunstein Professor Cass Robert Sunstein, born on 21 September 1954 in Concord, Massachusetts (USA), is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He obtained an A.B. in 1975 from Harvard College and a J.D. in 1978 from Harvard Law 10 School, both magna cum laude. After graduation, Sunstein worked as a clerk for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Resolutie te laag Court, before working as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1981-2008, Sunstein was a University of Chicago Law School faculty member, when President Barack Obama was also a faculty member. Over the years, Sunstein demonstrated a multi-faceted expertise in a variety of fields, including constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and economics. One his major contributions lies in the latter discipline, where he helped shaping the emerging field of behavioral law and eco - nomics, which seeks to model law and policy around but also with politicians including U.S. President Barack research on how people actually behave when facing Obama. Cass Sunstein served as the Administrator of the various choices. In his analysis, Sunstein stressed the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for Barack importance of insights from behavioural sciences, such as Obama at the White House from September 2009 till psychology, to broaden the traditional economic analysis August 2012. During this time, he oversaw a far-reaching of law. Sunstein has proven to be a prolific scholar, as restructuring of the American regulatory state which he he authored or co-authored more than 25 books and describes in his latest book Simpler: The Future of hundreds of scholarly articles. He has written extensively Government. on many aspects of public law, including the regulation of risk, the nature of rights, judicial decision-making, and numerous features of administrative, environmental, and constitutional doctrine. Between 2000 and 2007, Sunstein 11 was the most cited law professor in the field of consti - Professor Michael Faure, honorary promoter tutional and public law with 1680 citations. In 2007, Professor of Comparative Private Law and Economics Sunstein was awarded the prestigious Henry M. Phillips Professor Willem van Boom, honorary promoter Prize by the American Philosophical Society, a prize which Professor of Private Law is given every three years for lifetime achievement in Erasmus School of Law jurisprudence. He has frequently provided expert testimony to congressional committees, including the Senate Judiciary Committee during its consideration of Supreme Court nominees. In 2008, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler published their seminal book Nudge: Improving Decisions Van Boom: About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, which was a geen foto national and inter national bestseller. The book discusses aangeleverd? how organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives by taking into account the heuristics and biases that steer people’s decision making. The ideas in the book proved to be not only popular with academics Craig J. Calhoun Craig Jackson Calhoun, born on 16 June 1952 in Watseka, Illinois (USA), is one of today’s foremost social scientists. He is a true interdisciplinarian, having studied history and cultural anthropology. Then he moved into sociology with a strong footing in social theory. His scientific contributions as well as his contributions to the public sphere have been great, and his work has been translated in more than a dozen languages. Amongst others, he has been professor 12 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Columbia University. He has been university professor at New York University and he is the current director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University. Professor Calhoun has written and edited over 30 books and 150 journal articles and book chapters, including some in the most prestigious sociology journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society and Sociological Theory. Some of his recent books and collaborations are The Roots of Radicalism. Tradition, the Public Sphere and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements; Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age; Sociology in America. A History; Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmo - politan Dream, and several volumes on the economic and financial crisis in the Possible Futures book series, which he started. Among his most widely acclaimed earlier books are Natio nalism and Critical Social Theory: Culture, History and the Problem of Specificity. Professor Calhoun has brings together scholars and practitioners from various worked in close relation to scholars such as Richard Sennett, fields to collaborate on issues of public relevance. He has Arjun Appadurai,