The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation.
This event will feature the Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu in conversation about their background, research and their experiences from academia. The conversation will be moderated by Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt.
This event is part of the 2025 Holberg Week, which takes place from 3rd to 6th June.
Participants
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (Photo: Alice Attie.)
Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the 2025 Holberg Laureate. She has held the position of University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University since 2007, where she has been a faculty member since 1991, and where she is also a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Spivak has published nine books and translated many others. Her works have been translated into over 20 languages. Spivak’s key works include In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), and Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching (2018). Her latest book is Spivak Moving (2024).
Daniela Alaattinoğlu
Daniela Alaattinoğlu. (Photo: Esko Keski-Oja.)
Daniela Alaattinoğlu is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Turku and the recipient of the 2025 Nils Klim Prize. She is the Principal Investigator of the project From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (MARCEN), funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant, 2025–2029). Her research has been supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (2020–2023), the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (2020–2022), and the Research Council of Finland (2014–2019) among others. Alaattinoğlu is also the co-editor of Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice and the co-founder of the research environment Law, Space and Justice at the Turku Law Faculty.
Kari Jegerstedt (moderator)
Kari Jegerstedt. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.
Kari Jegerstedt is Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities and Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen. She works predeominantly with postcolonial, decolonial and psychoanalytic perspectives on gender, feminism, power and global societal challenges, and has over the last years specialized on anglophone African, contemporary literature with a special focus on South Africa.