Social Construction of the Objective World
Photo: Marit Hommedal/Scanpix/Holberg Prize
Professor Dagfinn Føllesdal, University of Oslo/Stanford University
Holberg Prize Podcast
From the Taming of Chance to the Rhetoric of Uncertainty
Photo: Marit Hommedal/Holberg Prize
Professor Bruna de Marchi, ISIG Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (Gorizia, Italy)
Decentered Western Identies
Professor Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University
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.
Story-Telling
Professor Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Decentering History
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto. Natalie Zemon Davis is Holberg International Memorial Prize laureate 2010.
Utfordringer for det nye Norge
Sosiolog Mette Andersson og vinner av Holbergprisen i skolen 2011 Alisa Mujanic. Foto: Paul Sigve Amundsen
Det snakkes ofte om kulturkonflikter mellom innvandrere og nordmenn. Men ofte er ulikhetene større mellom innvandrergrupper enn mellom innvandrere og etniske nordmenn.
Manuel Castells at the Bergen International Festival
Holberg Prize Laureate 2012 Manuel Castells in conversation with Knut Helland, Dean of the faculty if Social Sciences at the University of Bergen and board member of Bergen International Festival. Photo: Holbergprisen / Marit Hommedal / Scanpix
Helen Margetts: Citizens Engaging with the State: Understanding the Dynamics of Online Collective Action
The move of large tranches of social and political activity online, as well as facilitating social change, represents a big shift for the social sciences, allowing us to develop our understanding of social and political behaviour.
Gaia: The New Body Politic
Bruno Latour under Holbergprisens symposium 2013. Foto: Marit Hommedal / Scanpix / Holbergprisen