Mediterranean History as Global History
Professor David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
David Abulafia is an English historian. He has been Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1974.
David Abulafia has published extensively on Mediterranean history and has recently completed The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean, to be published by Penguin. His most influential book is Frederick II: a medieval emperor (1988). He has been appointed "Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana" by the President of Italy in recognition of his writing on Italian history, and he has also written about the first encounters between western Europeans and the native peoples of the Atlantic (The Discovery of Mankind, 2008).
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Holbergp Prize Symposium 2010: Doing decentered history
Decentered history is one of Holberg Prize Laureate Natalie Zemon Davis’s main interests. In a long series of books, such as Fiction in the Archives (1987), Women on the Margins (1995) and Trickster travels (2006) she has insisted on relational perspectives, a multiplicity of voices, and the foregrounding of otherwise silent or marginal actors. Read more.
Natalie Zemon Davis meets Jo Strømgren
Historian and Holberg Prize laureate Natalie Zemon Davis discusses the relationship between art and science with choreographer Jo Strømgren.
The meeting between Strømgren and Davis was a collaboration between Holberg Prize and Bergen International Festival. Listen to the conversation.
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Nominate candidate to the 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize
Deadline for nominations to the Holberg International Memorial Prize is September 15. 2012.
Holberg International Memorial Prize 2004 - 2012
Manuel Castells2011:
Jürgen Kocka 2010:
Natalie Z. Davis 2009: 
Ian Hacking 2008:
Fredric Jameson
2007:
Ronald Dworkin 2006:
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt 2005:
Jürgen Habermas 2004:
Julia Kristeva
Holberg International Memorial Prize is awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The prize amount is NOK 4.5 million (appr. EUR 570,000/ USD 800,000)