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April-June 2026
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2026 Ig Nobel EuroTour — We will add listings here as additional event plans crystallize.
- April 13, 2026, Tuesday, 1:00 pm — Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, GERMANY — MDC-BIMSB, Hannoversche Str. 28. Marc Abrahams will do a one-hour talk about “The Ig Nobel Prizes: Sneaky ways to spark curiosity about science”.
- April 17, 2026, Friday, 7:00 pm — University of Duisberg-Essen, GERMANY — Audimax, Meyer-Schwickerath-Str. 1, 45141 Essen. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS are sold out. With Marc Abrahams and
- Sabine Begall (2014 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner for documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines)
- Ida Sabelis (2000 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner for the report “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Male and Female Genitals During Coitus and Female Sexual Arousal”.)
- Kees Moeliker (2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner for documenting homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck)
- Nicolas Wöhrl and Reinhard Remford (performing physicists)
- April 21, 2026, Tuesday, 3:30 pm — Lund University (in cooperation with the Young Academy of Sweden), SWEDEN. This event will also be webcast. With Marc Abrahams and
- Minna Lyons (2014 Ig Nobel Prize winner, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.)
- Marie Dacke and Eric Warrant (2013 Ig Nobel Prize winners jointly in Biology and Astronomy, for discovering that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home by looking at the Milky Way.)
- Kees Moeliker (2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner for documenting homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck)
- 24/7 Lectures by Kajsa Gullberg, Cedrick Dicko, and Kiki Lindell Tersmeden
- April 22, 2026, Wednesday — Young Academy of Sweden, Malmö, SWEDEN.
- April 23, 2026, Thursday, 6:00 pm — EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS will become available April 14 at 2:00 pm. This event will also be webcast. With Marc Abrahams and
- Mariska Kret (2014 Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize winner for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize)
- Marcin Zajenkowski (2025 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize winner for investigating what happens when you tell narcissists — or anyone else — that they are intelligent.)
- Chris McManus (2002 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner for his excruciatingly balanced report, “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture.”)
- April 24, 2026, Friday, 2:15 pm — University of Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, at Alte Kantonsschule, Rämistr. 59; RAA-G-01, Universität Zürich. Marc Abrahams will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes and the upcoming move of the Ig Nobel ceremony to Zurich.
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April 25, 2026, Saturday, 10:00 am – noon — ORBIZ Josef, Josefstrasse 214a, 8005, Zürich, SWITZERLAND. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help at the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (in Zurich in September) can meet with ceremony organizers Marc Abrahams and Mirko Bischofberger, to explore the possibilities.
- April 28, 2026, Tuesday — Athens, GREECE. Details TBA.
- early May [dates TBA] — THE NETHERLANDS. Details TBA
- … and maybe some others, TBA…
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September 3, 2026, 7:00 pm
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THE 36th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY, Kongresshaus, Zurich, SWITZERLAND — Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded to ten new winners. Each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Details TBA.
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September 4, 2026, Friday
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Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, Zurich, SWITZERLAND — The new Ig Nobel Prize winners ask each other about their work, and answer questions from the audience. Details TBA.
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September 24, 2026, Thursday, evening
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BOST-IG — a celebration of past and new Ig Nobel Prizes, the songs of Tom Lehrer, the Museum of Bad Art, and American science — Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Details TBA.
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