Upcoming events
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
The 2013 Holberg Symposium "From Economics to Ecology" was held in honour of Holberg Laureate Bruno Latour.
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?”
Decentered history is one of Holberg Prize Laureate Natalie Zemon Davis’s main interests. This symposium was dedicated to this topic.
The 2009 Holberg Symposium is held in honour of philosopher and hisotrian of the sciences, Ian Hacking.
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 "Religion in the Public Sphere" was held by the Holberg Laureate 2005, Professor Jürgen Habermas. Four other prominent scholars also gave each their lectures in relation to the topic chosen by Habermas. 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.