Holberg Prize News

2022 Laureate Sheila Jasanoff's Holberg Lecture, "Democracy in an Unknowable World", is published here in full.

Holberg Laureate Sheila Jasanoff's Acceptance Speech is published here in full.

Today, the Holberg Prize was conferred upon Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, by HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education Ola Borten Moe conferred the Nils Klim Prize upon Associate Professor Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University.

Join us in the celebration of this years' Holberg Prize Laureate, Nils Klim Prize Laureate and the Holberg Prize School Project winners. The 2022 Holberg Week takes place in Bergen and Oslo 7–10 June.

The Board of the Holberg Prize convened on 3 February in Bergen, where they named the recipient of the 2022 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize, respectively.

A transcript of the 2021 Holberg Debate, featuring Judith Butler, Cornel West, Glenn Greenwald and Simon Critchley, is now available.

The process of selecting the next Holberg Prize Laureate is well underway. The Holberg Committee met on Friday 6 October to discuss the nominations for the 2021 Holberg Prize and the Committee members have now agreed on a shortlist.

Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen joins the post as Academic Director of the Holberg Prize on 1 January, 2022. Han takes over from Professor Ellen Mortensen, who has been Academic Director since 2015.