The Holberg Prize
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International research prize awarded for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Administered by the University of Bergen, Norway. Funded by the Norwegian Government.
This week, the Holberg Committee convened at The British Academy in London to agree on a shortlist of candidates for the 2026 Holberg Prize. The recipient's name will be announced on 17th March.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This week, the Holberg Committee convened at The British Academy in London to agree on a shortlist of candidates for the 2026 Holberg Prize. The recipient's name will be announced on 17th March.
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Yes—there will be a Holberg Debate this year! Get ready for a compelling debate at the University Aula in Bergen, on 9th December. Save the date.
Are you excited to know the topic and the lineup? (Of course you are!)
Are you excited to know the topic and the lineup? (Of course you are!)
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yes—there will be a Holberg Debate this year! Get ready for a compelling debate at the University Aula in Bergen, on 9th December. Save the date.
Are you excited to know the topic and the lineup? (Of course you are!)
Are you excited to know the topic and the lineup? (Of course you are!)
The 4th June Holberg Masterclass, featuring Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, was entitled "The Practice of Learning". Here, five PhD candidates spoke on their research, (from the left): Sabina Ivenäs, Sadie Hale, Johannes Sartou, Telma Velez, Jillian Loise Melchor
Photo: Eivind Senneset.
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Photo: Eivind Senneset.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The 4th June Holberg Masterclass, featuring Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, was entitled "The Practice of Learning". Here, five PhD candidates spoke on their research, (from the left): Sabina Ivenäs, Sadie Hale, Johannes Sartou, Telma Velez, Jillian Loise Melchor
Photo: Eivind Senneset.
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Photo: Eivind Senneset.
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A wonderful Holberg Week was concluded on 6th June. We wish to thank the Laureates, as well as everyone who contributed or attended. Please see our Flickr page for photos and our events page for video links.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A wonderful Holberg Week was concluded on 6th June. We wish to thank the Laureates, as well as everyone who contributed or attended. Please see our Flickr page for photos and our events page for video links.
www.flickr.com/photos/holbe...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
www.flickr.com/photos/holbe...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
Get to know the Nils Klim Laureate and her research better! We are delighted to share this interview with Daniela Alaattinoğlu. The interview is conducted and produced by the University of Turku.
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(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
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(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
June 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Get to know the Nils Klim Laureate and her research better! We are delighted to share this interview with Daniela Alaattinoğlu. The interview is conducted and produced by the University of Turku.
soundcloud.com/holbergprize...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
soundcloud.com/holbergprize...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
Welcome to the 2nd day of the Holberg Week. The Holberg Masterclass with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will start shortly. More information and livestream link below.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Welcome to the 2nd day of the Holberg Week. The Holberg Masterclass with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will start shortly. More information and livestream link below.
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
A conversation at the House of Literature in Bergen, between the two Laureates, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Daniela Alaattinoğlu, provided a wonderful ending to the first day of the Holberg Week. Join us tomorrow for more events.
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
June 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A conversation at the House of Literature in Bergen, between the two Laureates, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Daniela Alaattinoğlu, provided a wonderful ending to the first day of the Holberg Week. Join us tomorrow for more events.
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
(Photo: Eivind Senneset)
More great discussions on this first day of the Holberg Week, here at the Nils Klim Symposium.
Group photo, from the left: Vibeke Blaker Strand, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Maya Unnithan, and Reetta Toivanen.
Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/ZUloCw2...
Group photo, from the left: Vibeke Blaker Strand, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Maya Unnithan, and Reetta Toivanen.
Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/ZUloCw2...
June 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
More great discussions on this first day of the Holberg Week, here at the Nils Klim Symposium.
Group photo, from the left: Vibeke Blaker Strand, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Maya Unnithan, and Reetta Toivanen.
Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/ZUloCw2...
Group photo, from the left: Vibeke Blaker Strand, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Maya Unnithan, and Reetta Toivanen.
Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/ZUloCw2...
The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here:
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here:
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
The final speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Maya Unnithan:
“A human rights based approach provides a significant framework with which to conceptualize and advance change where gender inequality and injustice permeate."
“A human rights based approach provides a significant framework with which to conceptualize and advance change where gender inequality and injustice permeate."
June 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The final speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Maya Unnithan:
“A human rights based approach provides a significant framework with which to conceptualize and advance change where gender inequality and injustice permeate."
“A human rights based approach provides a significant framework with which to conceptualize and advance change where gender inequality and injustice permeate."
Great discussions today at the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities’.
Group photo, from the left:
Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, Emily Apter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lakshmi Subramanian.
Video is available here: youtube.com/live/PIpbveO...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
Group photo, from the left:
Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, Emily Apter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lakshmi Subramanian.
Video is available here: youtube.com/live/PIpbveO...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
June 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great discussions today at the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities’.
Group photo, from the left:
Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, Emily Apter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lakshmi Subramanian.
Video is available here: youtube.com/live/PIpbveO...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
Group photo, from the left:
Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, Emily Apter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lakshmi Subramanian.
Video is available here: youtube.com/live/PIpbveO...
(Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
The next speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Reetta Toivanen:
“Law not only protects people, it also co-produces them. In other words, legal systems are social technologies that at the same time empower and make up the minorities they seek to cover.”
“Law not only protects people, it also co-produces them. In other words, legal systems are social technologies that at the same time empower and make up the minorities they seek to cover.”
June 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The next speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Reetta Toivanen:
“Law not only protects people, it also co-produces them. In other words, legal systems are social technologies that at the same time empower and make up the minorities they seek to cover.”
“Law not only protects people, it also co-produces them. In other words, legal systems are social technologies that at the same time empower and make up the minorities they seek to cover.”
At the Nils Klim Seminar, Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu introduces the topic:
“In the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—are often seen as progressive societies."
“In the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—are often seen as progressive societies."
June 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
At the Nils Klim Seminar, Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu introduces the topic:
“In the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—are often seen as progressive societies."
“In the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—are often seen as progressive societies."
The 2025 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu, will start shortly. The topic is "Nordic Rights Development from the Margins? Reassessing Legal Inclusion and Exclusion.”
Livestream link is available below.
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
Livestream link is available below.
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
June 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The 2025 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu, will start shortly. The topic is "Nordic Rights Development from the Margins? Reassessing Legal Inclusion and Exclusion.”
Livestream link is available below.
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
Livestream link is available below.
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
The second third Holberg Symposium speaker is Lakshmi Subramanian, who speaks on “The Paradox of the Humanities in India”
June 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The second third Holberg Symposium speaker is Lakshmi Subramanian, who speaks on “The Paradox of the Humanities in India”
The second Holberg Symposium speaker is Oluwaseun Akinfenwa: “The humanities have long served as a mirror, through which societies understand themselves.”
June 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The second Holberg Symposium speaker is Oluwaseun Akinfenwa: “The humanities have long served as a mirror, through which societies understand themselves.”
The first panel speaker at the Holberg Symposium is Emily Apter:
“The humanities in the US and also worldwide is directly under attack. Higher education, including the hard sciences, are now being explicitly targeted, as a supposed read-out of ‘wokeness’."
“The humanities in the US and also worldwide is directly under attack. Higher education, including the hard sciences, are now being explicitly targeted, as a supposed read-out of ‘wokeness’."
June 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The first panel speaker at the Holberg Symposium is Emily Apter:
“The humanities in the US and also worldwide is directly under attack. Higher education, including the hard sciences, are now being explicitly targeted, as a supposed read-out of ‘wokeness’."
“The humanities in the US and also worldwide is directly under attack. Higher education, including the hard sciences, are now being explicitly targeted, as a supposed read-out of ‘wokeness’."
"The humanities, in my strict reading, are literature and philosophy, although all disciplines should be supplemented by the humanities. To supplement is to question the totalization of anything", says Holberg Laurate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as she introduces the topic at the Holberg Symposium.
June 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"The humanities, in my strict reading, are literature and philosophy, although all disciplines should be supplemented by the humanities. To supplement is to question the totalization of anything", says Holberg Laurate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as she introduces the topic at the Holberg Symposium.
The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here:
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
June 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here:
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
Today, Jørn Jacobsen interviewed Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme here:
holbergprize.org/events-and.....
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme here:
holbergprize.org/events-and.....
June 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today, Jørn Jacobsen interviewed Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme here:
holbergprize.org/events-and.....
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme here:
holbergprize.org/events-and.....
Professor Jørn Jacobsen has just finished interviewing Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme at holbergprize.org.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme at holbergprize.org.
June 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Professor Jørn Jacobsen has just finished interviewing Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme at holbergprize.org.
The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme at holbergprize.org.
While the Holberg Week officially starts tomorrow, activities are already well under way. Here, Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt are getting ready for the Holberg Conversation, which will be broadcast on TV and published on YouTube this autumn.
June 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
While the Holberg Week officially starts tomorrow, activities are already well under way. Here, Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt are getting ready for the Holberg Conversation, which will be broadcast on TV and published on YouTube this autumn.
The Holberg Week starts on 3rd June. As a warm-up to the events, we are very pleased to share this interview with the 2025 Holberg Laureate, Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, where she talks about the major areas of her work, as well her life and career path.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Holberg Week starts on 3rd June. As a warm-up to the events, we are very pleased to share this interview with the 2025 Holberg Laureate, Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, where she talks about the major areas of her work, as well her life and career path.
soundcloud.com/holbergprize...
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The 2025 Holberg Week takes place in Bergen and Oslo from 3rd to 6th June. Join us in celebration of Holberg Laureate, Gayatri C. Spivak; Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu; and the recipients of the Holberg School Programme awards. Register below for in-person attendance.
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May 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The 2025 Holberg Week takes place in Bergen and Oslo from 3rd to 6th June. Join us in celebration of Holberg Laureate, Gayatri C. Spivak; Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu; and the recipients of the Holberg School Programme awards. Register below for in-person attendance.
bit.ly/3S1jx3B
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