How do we include physical experience, real bodies, in our understanding of human life? Where do phenomena like dreams fit in? What does gender mean today?
The Holberg Prize is offering scholarships for five PhD candidates in the Nordic countries to participate in a Masterclass with Professor Lyndal Roper on “Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement” on 3 June, 2026. See the open call for more information. The application deadline is 17 April.
The participants and further details for this event will be presented in early May.
Each participant will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation related to the theme chosen by the Laureate. After the presentations there will be a panel discussion.
Abstract
How do we get beyond discourse about ‘the body’ – after all, there is no such thing as THE body – and what opens up if we no longer assume gender is binary? AI of course doesn’t have a body. How can we enrich our account of human agency by thinking about emotions, including religious ones, and the unconscious? And how does our thinking change when we move?
This event is part of the 2026 Holberg Week, which takes place from 1 to 4 June in Bergen.
