The Holberg Symposium was held in honour of Julia Kristeva, the Holberg Laureate 2004, on 2 December in Bergen.
At the first Holberg Symposium Julia Kristeva gave the lecture “Thinking about Liberty in Dark Times,” and took part in a panel discussion with on “Integration, difference and freedom”. Researchers in different fields including philosophy, gender studies, ethics, psychoanalysis, literature, art, cultural studies, anthropology and social sciences responded with comments to the lecture before the hour-and-a-half panel discussion. The seminar was held in connection with the awarding of the first Holberg Prize.
The lectures presented as part of the symposium was compiled as a printed publication. The original pdf version of this publication is available for download.
Julia Kristeva’s title lecture manuscript is also published as a separate news article.
Programme
10:00
Welcome and introduction
by Jan Fridtjof Bernt, Chair of the Board, The Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund
10:15
Julia Kristeva and the Reception of her Work in the English-Speaking World
by Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
11:15
The 2004 Holberg Lecture: “Thinking About Liberty in Dark Times“
by Julia Kristeva, 2004 Holberg Laureate, University of Paris 7 – Denis Diderot
14:00 – 16:00
Panel discussion: “Integration, Difference, Freedom”
moderated by Ellen Mortensen og Lars Sætre, University of Bergen
“Freedom and Ethical Value”
by Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University
“The Semiotic and the Other: A Response to Julia Kristeva”
by John Fletcher, University of Warwick
“Liberty, Freedom, the Imaginary“
by Atle Kittang, University of Bergen
“The Concept of Working Through”
by Iréne Matthis, International Psychoanalytic Association
