Welcome to Anniversary Week

The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) will be celebrating its 75th anniversary for a whole week. From 5 to 10 September, auditoriums, corridors and the main hall will be packed with activities and events in connection with the anniversary. In the following, Paraplyen provides you with the information you need to get the most out of the week.

30.08.2011 - Espen Bolghaug

Monday 5 September: NHH Forum

This is the day when Orkla, spearheaded by CEO Bjørn M Wiggen, will be coming to NHH and the NHH Forum. The topic will be long-term value creation in Orkla, and some of NHH's capable researchers will be commenting on Wiggen's talk. It will also be possible to ask questions from the floor.

Time: 9.45-13.30
Place: The main hall and student canteen, NHH
Language: English

The programme for the day is available here.

A separate anniversary exhibition will open later the same day in the library. The exhibition will feature images, slides, publications and other material. It will show the breadth of scholarly activities at NHH and will include a historical presentation of NHH from 1936 to the present. Based on the present departmental structure at NHH, an overview will be given of the historical roots and development over time of the different subjects. The exhibition will be opened by Deputy Rector Gunnar E Christensen, and Professor Rolf Jens Brunstad will give a short talk entitled 'NHHs første lærere - en fargerik forsamling'.

The exhibition will be open during the library's ordinary opening hours until 1 November.

Place: The library
Time: 15.00

Tuesday 6 September: Art Day

A day devoted to the school's art project. You may have noticed the street art adorning some of NHH's walls. Some of the artists will be back at NHH on Tuesday 6 Sept. to talk about the artistic process. You will have an opportunity to learn more about what street art actually is from the artists themselves.

A highlight of this seminar will be the debate entitled Economics vs. Street art. Professors Bertil Tungodden and Guttorm Scheldrup, among others, will discuss with the artists whether the artists' use of the term capitalism is line with their use of the word.

Film clips will also be shown from the production of the works of art.

Time: 10.00-13.00
Place: The main hall, NHH
Language: English

See more about the programme on the project's website www.capitalism.no.

Wednesday 7 September: foundation day with a celebration cermony in Aulaen

This is the anniversary of the date when NHH was founded, and it will be celebrated in several events. A visit by the King of Norway and anniversary cake for everyone are among the highlights, but the opening event of the day will be an Anniversary Book seminar. The book committee will present the anniversary book, and NHH's history will be reviewed.

Time: 10.00-12.00
Place: Agnar Sandmo auditorium
Language: Norwegian

Cake will also be served to students and staff in three different locations:

- outdoors between the main entrance and the student entrance beside the fountain

- outside the Agnar Sandmo auditorium

- in the student canteen

Time: 11.00-12.30

Celebration ceremony in Aulaen, which will start at 13.00 and will include a visit by HM King Harald V. The ceremony will also be shown by video link in the Terje Hansen auditorium and the Finn Kydland auditorium. Semi-formal attire is recommended. The doors close at 12.45.

Time: 13.00-15.00 (everyone must be seated by 12.45)

Place: Aulaen, NHH

Later in the evening, there will be a gala dinner for specially invited guests in the Håkon's Hall.

Thursday 8 September: honorary doctors

Finn Kydland is one of the new honorary doctors.

A symposium will be held on Thursday 8 Sept. for the ten new honorary doctors. There will be lectures in Aulaen in the morning, while there will be parallel lectures in the Finn Kydland, Agnar Sandmo and Jan Mossin auditoriums later in the day.

Time: 10.15-16.00
Place: The main hall and the Jan Mossin, Agnar Sandmo and Finn Kydland auditoriums, NHH
Language: English

Friday 9 September: School pupils meet researchers

NHH invites 10th year pupils from schools in the Bergen area to come to NHH. There will be lectures, a research marketplace and guided tours of the school. The goal of the activities and the lectures is to provide some insight into life at NHH. The programme is adapted to fit the school subject 'Choice of Education'. Check out the programme at www.nhh.no/skoledagen

This is a closed event for invited school pupils and teachers only (more than 600 participants).

Time: 10.00-13.30

Place: The basement, auditoriums, corridors and Aulaen
Language: Norwegian

Saturday 10 September: Open House

NHH will hold Open House on the final day of anniversary week. The school invites staff and students to bring along their families, neighbours, friends and acquaintances to NHH to show them the school, and present some of its activities and research.

The anniversary week will be packed with various activities celebrating NHH's 75th anniversary. One of the many highlights will be the conclusion of the week, when everyone in Bergen and anyone else who wants to come is invited to take part in the celebrations.

Open House will feature several lectures by some of the best researchers at NHH, as well as good old-fashioned student entertainment from the Student Association.

'Everyone attached to the school must take the opportunity to bring along friends, their mother-in-law and neighbours to show them our great school,' says Asle Haukaas, chair of the organising committee for Open House.

Activities worth mentioning include a meeting with the authors of the anniversary books for NHH and NHHS (the Student Association) in the library and a debate in the Dag Coward auditorium with the title 'Fra børs og finansmarkeder til vekst og arbeidsplasser: Om Europa i krise og eventyrlandet Norge'. The debate, which will be between Thore Johnsen and Øystein Thøgersen, professors of finance and macroeconomics, will be chaired by Sjur Holsen, political editor of the daily newspaper Bergens Tidende.