The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation.
This event will feature the Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe and the Nils Klim Laureate Siddharth Sareen in conversation about their background, research and their experiences from academia.
Speakers
Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe. (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand.)
Achille Mbembe is the 2024 Holberg Laureate. Mbembe is a Research Professor of History and Politics at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand. He is also Director of the Innovation Foundation for Democracy. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, Mbembe is the author of ten books and his work has been translated into 17 languages. His latest book is La communauté terrestre (Paris, La Découverte, 2023).
Siddharth Sareen
Siddharth Sareen. (Photo: Trygve Tollefsen, Akademiet for yngre forskere.)
Siddharth Sareen is the 2024 Nils Klim Laureate. He is professor of energy and environment at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway. Sareen is also professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen.
Kari Jegerstedt (moderator)
Kari Jegerstedt. Foto: 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.
