Honoris Causa
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The award of Doctor Honoris Causa or honorary doctorate is a solemn academic procedure incorporating a Spanish or foreign national to the University Senate, conferring an honorary degree for their merit in the academic, scientific or artistic fields of activity.
The solemn act of conferring the title of Doctor Honoris Causa is, together with the Opening of the Academic year, one of the University’s most important ceremonies. The act is held in the Main Hall and is subject to strict protocol; following the laudatio, the diploma is presented, citing the attributes of the degree awarded; the newly appointed doctor is invested with the cap and gown and is presented the ring, white gloves and the Book of Science and the Medal. The Doctor having been invested, takes the podium to give the lectio magistralis and following this discourse, the Chancellor gives his speech. Finally, the ceremony ends with the hymn Gaudeamus Igitur and the retinue leave the Hall.
2020 - Present
2017 - 2019
- Prof.ª Margaret Levi / Laudatio Prof. Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
- Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup / Laudatio Daniel García Sánchez
- Prof.ª Margarita Salas / Laudatio Prof. Juan José Vaquero
- Prof. Anant Agarwal / Laudatio Prof. Carlos Delgado Kloos
- Prof. Eric Maskin / Laudatio Luis Corchón
- Prof. Anti Räisänen / Laudatio Magdalena Salazar
- Prof. Ian McEwan / Laudatio Pilar Díaz Carrera
- Prof.ª Mary Beard / Laudatio Prof. Jaime Alvar
- Prof. José Antonio Martín Pereda / Laudatio Prof.ª Carmen Vázquez
- Prof Pio Caroni / Laudatio Prof. Manuel Bermejo
2013 - 2016
- Prof.ª Aurora Egido Martí / Laudatio Prof.ª María Victoria Pavón
- Prof. Alberto Molinari / Laudatio Prof.ª Mónica Campos
- Prof. Herbert Danniger / Laudatio Prof.ª Mónica Campos
- Prof.ª María Blasco Marhuenda / Laudatio Prof. Jose Luis Jorcano
- Prof. Mario Vargas Llosa / Laudatio Prof. Carlos Elias
- Prof. Peter Ingwersen / Laudatio Prof. Elías Sanz
- Prof. José Manuel Blecua Perdices / Laudatio Prof.ª María Pilar Garcés Gómez
- Prof. Román Gubern Garriga-Nogués / Laudatio Prof. Manuel Palacio Arranz
- Prof. José María Blázquez Martínez / Laudatio Prof.ª María Pilar Garcés Gómez
2009 - 2012
2006 - 2008
2003 - 2005
2000 - 2002
1997-1999
1994-1996
- Prof. D. Allan R. Brewer-Carías
- Prof. D. Clive W.J. Granger
- Prof. D. Joseph B. Keller
- Prof. D. José Ramón Parada Vázquez
- Prof. D. Alejandro Nieto García
- Prof. D. Manuel Elices Calafat
- Prof. D. George E. P. Box
- Prof. D. Boutros-Ghali
- Prof. D. Aurelio Menéndez y Menéndez
- Prof. D. Manuel Díez de Velasco
- Prof. D. Eduardo García de Enterría
- Prof. D. Luis Díez Picazo
- Prof. D. Manuel Alonso Olea