Alumni event in Washington D.C.

Join us and network with fellow alumni and university representatives from eight Swedish universities.

The event includes presentations and a moderated talk followed by networking and mingle. Light refreshments and snacks will be served. 
Dress code: Business casual 
Entrance fee: Free, but please note that registration is required.

This invitation is personal, and participation will be confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis. You will receive a confirmation email from Karolina Strandsäter in the beginning of March.

Honorary Guest Speakers

• Fredrik Logevall, Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard, is a recognized and Pulitzer Prize winning author. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he holds a PhD in History from Yale and is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
• Anna Sjöström Douagi is the deputy CEO of the Nobel Foundation, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences as well as the founder of the Young Academy of Sweden. She holds a PhD in Immunology from Karolinska Institutet and is an Advisory Council Member of the UN Environmental Program.
  
  
• Kimberly Montgomery is the Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the editor-in-chief of the policy journal Science & Diplomacy, and holds a PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton.

Moderator:

Dag Blanck is Professor of North American Studies and director of the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. He has a PhD in history from Uppsala, teaches American history, sits on the Board of Directors and Publications Committee of the Swedish-American Historical Society and directs Uppsala University’s program on democracy and higher education. He received the University’s Torgny Segerstedt Medal in 2024.