An Evening with the Holberg Prize

Lyndal Roper is a historian of German history 1500 to1800, especially women and gender. She has written a biography of the reformer Martin Luther, and last year published Summer of Fire and Blood, a history of the German Peasants’ War: to write it, she walked or cycled just about all the areas affected by the War. She has taught at King’s College London, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Oxford. In 2011 she became Regius Professor of History at Oxford, the first woman to hold the 300 year old post. She co-edited the journal Past & Present for over a decade and has been a member of History Workshop Journal Collective for forty years. Now she runs experimental workshops, ‘Moving History’, teaching critical and creative thinking in combination with (light!) physical exercise.

Majse Lind is Associate Professor of Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark. She received her PhD from Aarhus University and has also held postdoctoral positions at Northeastern University and at the University of Florida, USA. Her research examines identity at the intersection of personality development and personality pathology, with a particular focus on narrative identity. Lind leads the IN:DEPTH Lab and is Co-Director of the AI:MIND Lab, where artificial intelligence is used to identify early markers of personality pathology. She is also President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD), has received several awards for her work, and has published widely in leading international journals.