Upcoming events
Welcome to an open seminar about this year’s Holberg Prize winner: historian, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe.
Join us as we celebrate Nils Klim Laureate Siddharth Sareen and his actionable research.
Join us in celebration of outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Holberg Week 2024 will take place 4 –7 June in Bergen and Oslo. Save the dates!
In African cosmogonies, all living entities are composed of symbiotic relations while complex infrastructures are required to sustain personhood.
Under dire circumstances worldwide, how can the insights that energy social scientists hold enable equitable transitions to low-carbon energy futures?
The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation.
The greatest challenge facing critical theory now is the reframing of the disciplines in light of the long-term sustainability of life on Earth.
The award ceremony for the Holberg School Programme, a research competition for students in Norwegian upper secondary schools.
The Official Award Ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.
The end of Apartheid in South Africa coincided with a renewed drive to expand our definition of the human and to reimagine democracy as a community of life.
Previous events
Mapping geographies of resistance at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal in a world counter-movement for environmental justice. Lecture by the 2023 Holberg Laureate, Joan Martinez-Alier.
How can the study of Social Metabolism in Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology lead to Political Ecology, through the Arctic region?
The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation.
How was the fact-fiction distinction established? This seminar investigates the emergence of new conceptions of fact and fiction in the 18th century.
The making of movements for environmental justice, their social protagonists and forms of mobilization - explained by the growth of social metabolism.
In the 2023 Holberg Conversation, Holberg Laurate Joan Martinez-Alier is interviewed by Professor Håvard Haardstad.
Nils Klim Laureate Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen was interviewed for the Nils Klim Conversation during the 2023 Holberg Week.
Welcome to a symposium organized by the Centre for Climate and Energy Transition (CET) in collaboration with the Holberg Prize.
On Tuesday, 14 March, the 2023 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be announced at the University Aula in Bergen.
The Holberg Prize and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities will host a discussion on the long lines of nationalism, authoritarianism, and democracy in Europe and Germany.
As we face an increasing set of intertwined crises—from climate change to economic, social, and political upheaval across the world—is there a need for new imaginations of alternative futures?
The Nils Klim Symposium is organized annually as a collaboration between the Nils Klim Laureate and the Holberg Prize.
What do the current geopolitical crises mean for the power of deterrence and the prospects of a new global security order?
As a warmp-up to the 1 December Holberg Debate, the documentary film "Why Ukraine?" will be screened on 29 November. Afterwards, there will be a discussion between Professor Lise Rakner and Professor Don Kalb.
In this conversation with Professor Roger Strand, Laureate Sheila Jasanoff speaks about her pioneering research in the field of Science and Technology Studies.