Upcoming events
Organized by the Center for Digital Narrative, in collaboration with the Holberg Prize, this reading group will explore selected texts by 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate Achille Mbembe, before discussing his approach to technology.
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
Holberg Laureate Sheila Jasanoff in conversation with Professor Cathrine Holst on the issue of trust in relations between experts and publics.
A conversation between 2022 Holberg Laureate Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, and Professor Stephen Hilgartner, Cornell University.
A roundtable discussion on young researchers’ careers in the Nordic countries with perspectives from the social sciences and humanities.
The Official Award Ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.
Science and Technology Studies allows us to rethink the position of the political subject in a mechanized, instrumentalized, yet indeterminate world. Lecture by the 2022 Holberg Prize Laureate, Sheila Jasanoff.
Experts are usually seen as skilled in understanding and explaining how the world works, but they do not only represent the world: they help make it.
The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation about their background and their research.
Technologies are not merely tools for achieving necessary ends but a vehicle through which humans articulate and implement visions of the future.
What enabled or compelled women to move in the past? This seminar explores aspects of women’s travel in the Ancient Mediterranean.
The recipients of the 2022 Holberg Prize and the 2022 Nils Klim Prize will be announced on Monday, 14 March, at 09:00, CET (UTC +1).
Is identity politics a force for good?
As a warm-up to the 4 December Holberg Debate, the documentary film "Examined Life" will be screened at Bergen Cinema on 2 December. The event is open for all and free of charge.
The 2021 Nils Klim Prize was awarded to Finnish-Russian Daria Gritsenko, for her outstanding research contributions in the intersection between political science, environmental studies and digital humanities. In this interview Gritsenko speaks about her background and research
Holbergsamtalen med Martha C. Nussbaum.
Holberg Laureate Griselda Pollock in conversation with Stina Högqvist from the National Museum in Oslo.