Calendar
Saturday 7. December 2019
Slavoj Žižek has been called the «the most dangerous philosopher in the West» and a cultural theorist superstar, as he mixes Marxism with pop culture and psychoanalysis. Three decades after the fall of «Communism» in Eastern Europe, why does Žižek still call himself a communist?
Past events
Wednesday 4. September 2019
One laureate from each of the three Norwegian academic prizes have been invited to the University of Bergen to discuss the challenges for the future of humanity and what remains to be discovered within the academic fields of the prizes.
Thursday 6. June 2019
A conversation between 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy and Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Wednesday 5. June 2019
The Official Award Ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.
Tuesday 4. June 2019
Holberg Laurate Paul Gilroy and Nils Klim Laureate Finnur Dellsén in conversation.
Tuesday 4. June 2019
Lecture by the 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature, King’s College London.
Tuesday 4. June 2019
Four scholars are invited to this year's Holberg Symposium to share perspectives on critical race theory, conceptions of otherness, colonial history and what it means to be human in our time.
Monday 3. June 2019
Five PhD candidates from Nordic universities are invited to participate in a masterclass with the 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy.
Monday 3. June 2019
Nils Klim Laureate Finnur Dellsén and other prominent scholars discuss the role of experts in public debate, as well as issues of trust.
Thursday 14. March 2019
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.
Saturday 1. December 2018
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.
Thursday 7. June 2018
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.
Wednesday 6. June 2018
The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
Wednesday 6. June 2018
Announcement and Award Ceremony of the Holberg Prize School Project Winners and the Teacher Prize 2018
Tuesday 5. June 2018
If people have freedom of choice, do their lives go better? Under what conditions? By what criteria?
Tuesday 5. June 2018
Can democracies arrive at truth – and if so, through which mechanisms?
Monday 4. June 2018
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.
Monday 4. June 2018
The 2018 Nils Klim Laureate Francesca R. Jensenius presents her research and discusses the use of electoral quotas in India with Pradeep Chhibber, Pratap Mehta and Anne Waldrop.
Wednesday 14. March 2018
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.
Saturday 2. December 2017
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.
Thursday 28. September 2017
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.
Wednesday 27. September 2017
On 27 September, the Holberg Prize and the Norwegian Consulate General will host a reception at the Consul General’s residence.
Friday 22. September 2017
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.
Friday 9. June 2017
A conversation with the 2017 Holberg Laureate Onora O’Neill about trustworthiness and trust.
Thursday 8. June 2017
The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
Thursday 8. June 2017
Announcement and Award Ceremony of the Holberg Prize School Project Winners and the Teacher Prize 2017.
Wednesday 7. June 2017
Lecture by Holberg Laureate Onora O’Neill, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
Wednesday 7. June 2017
Should freedom of expression protect speech and writing that damage, undermine or distort communication?
Tuesday 6. June 2017
The Holberg Prize has invited five Nordic PhD students to participate in a Masterclass discussion with Onora O'Neill on "Judgement and Interpretation".
Tuesday 6. June 2017
Keynote address by the 2017 Nils Klim Laureate Katrine Vellesen Løken, Professor of Economics, University of Bergen, followed by guest lectures.
Tuesday 14. March 2017
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.
Saturday 3. December 2016
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?
Thursday 9. June 2016
A conversation with the 2016 Holberg Laureate, Renaissance and Shakespeare Scholar, Stephen Greenblatt.
Wednesday 8. June 2016
The official award ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.
Wednesday 8. June 2016
Announcement and award ceremony of the Holberg Prize School Project Winners and the Teacher Prize.
Tuesday 7. June 2016
A reflection on Shakespeare’s uncanny ability–the ability of the Humanities more generally–to confer life upon the objects of imaginative attention.
Tuesday 7. June 2016
“Understanding emissions trading through discourse analysis”
Tuesday 7. June 2016
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?
Monday 6. June 2016
Five Nordic PhD candidates have been selected to partake in an exclusive Masterclass with Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt.
Monday 6. June 2016
Lecture by the 2016 Nils Klim Laureate Sanja Bogojević, Associate Professor of Environmental Law at Lund University.
Tuesday 9. June 2015
This is a celebration of the Holberg Laureate, Nils Klim Laureate and the Holberg Prize School Project winners.
Tuesday 9. June 2015
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.
Tuesday 9. June 2015
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.
Thursday 11. September 2014
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.
Tuesday 7. June 2011
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?”
Tuesday 25. November 2008
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.
Tuesday 27. November 2007
The Symposium was held in the honour of the 2007 Holberg Laureate, American legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.
Saturday 25. November 2006
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.
Tuesday 29. November 2005
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.
Thursday 2. December 2004
The Holberg Symposium was held in honour of Julia Kristeva, the Holberg Laureate 2004, on 2. December in Bergen.