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On March 14, at 09:00 CET, the recipients of 2019 the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be announced. The ceremony will be livestreamed on this page.

Fifty years after the 1968 revolt, how important are affects in influencing the behavior of voters, activists and policy makers? Achille Mbembe, Kathleen Cleaver and George Galloway will meet in Bergen on December 1 to discuss these issues.

Research Director Anine Kierulf and Professor Cathrine Holst invite Holberg Laureate Cass R. Sunstein to a conversation about expertise and policy making at the House of Literature in Oslo.

The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize

If people have freedom of choice, do their lives go better? Under what conditions? By what criteria?

Can democracies arrive at truth – and if so, through which mechanisms?

The Holberg Prize has invited six Nordic PhD candidates to discuss the topic "What to do about Human Error" with Holberg Laureate Cass Sunstein in Bergen on 4 June.

On March 14 we will announce the winner of the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize 2018. The ceremony can be watched live from 9:00.

At this year's Holberg Debate, John Pilger, Julian Assange og Jonathan Heawood will discuss the presence of propaganda in news and social media, and its democratic implications.

On 28 September, the Holberg Prize will co-present a facilitated conversation between 2016 Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt, literature professor at Harvard University and Shakespeare scholar, and the American playwright Tony Kushner.

On 27 September, the Holberg Prize and the Norwegian Consulate General will host a reception at the Consul General’s residence.

Holberg Laureates Stephen Greenblatt and Manuel Castells will discuss the status and importance of research in the social sciences and the humanities, from the perspective of their respective disciplines.

A conversation with the 2017 Holberg Laureate Onora O’Neill about trustworthiness and trust.

The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize

Lecture by Holberg Laureate Onora O’Neill, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

Should freedom of expression protect speech and writing that damage, undermine or distort communication?

The Holberg Prize has invited five Nordic PhD students to participate in a Masterclass discussion with Onora O'Neill on "Judgement and Interpretation".

On March 14 we will announce the winner of the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize 2017. The ceremony can be watched live from 9:00.

How can we build a framework for ‘civilized conflict’ in multicultural societies where different world views determine which types of expression that are deemed unacceptable?

A conversation with the 2016 Holberg Laureate, Renaissance and Shakespeare Scholar, Stephen Greenblatt.

The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.

Join us in a celebration of this years’ Laureates.

A reflection on Shakespeare’s uncanny ability–the ability of the Humanities more generally–to confer life upon the objects of imaginative attention.

How does life enter into the formal structure of works of art and literature? How do those works enter into the life of their own and future times?

Five Nordic PhD candidates have been selected to partake in an exclusive Masterclass with Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt.

This is a celebration of the Holberg Laureate, Nils Klim Laureate and the Holberg Prize School Project winners.

Can myths, legends, and stories provide alternative shelter, literary lieux de mémoire where a refugee, a migrant, or a wanderer might feel at home? The lecture is a part of the Holberg Symposium and the Holberg week.

The symposium is held in honour of Holberg Laureate 2015, Marina Warner. International scholars, authors and critics meet to explore myths, images, modernity, legends, and perspectives related to national identity and cultural reconstruction.

Jürgen Habermas participated in a two-day symposium at the University of Stavanger, as part of the ten years-anniversary celebration for the Holberg Prize in 2014.

The Holberg Prize annually organises an academic symposium in the honour of the Holberg Laureate. The theme of this year's symposium is: "Civil Society and the Welfare State: Competitors or Allies?”

Six distinguished scholars from four continents gathered Tuesday, 25 November, at the University of Bergen in Norway to discuss the ideas of cultural critic Fredric R. Jameson, Holberg Prize Laureate 2008.

The Symposium was held in the honour of the 2007 Holberg Laureate, American legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.

The Holberg Symposium was held in honour of Holberg Laureate Shmuel Eisenstadt. The main topic of the event was: "The Processes that Change the World" The program was divided into four sessions.

The main lecture at the Symposium was held by the Holberg Laureate 2005, Professor Jürgen Habermas. Also four scholars were invited to give a lecture in relation to the topic of Jürgen Habermas´s lecture. The lectures from the symposium has later been published as a book.

The Holberg Symposium was held in honour of Julia Kristeva, the Holberg Laureate 2004, on 2. December in Bergen.