Prize: The Holberg Prize

Rembrandt Self-portrait. Foto: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

The Holberg Lecture: Shakespeare’s Life-making
Nils Klim pris-vinner Sanja Bogojević (tv) og Holbergprisvinner Stephen Greenblatt mottok prisene under ein seremoni i Universitetes aula i Bergen. Foto: Marit Hommedal, NTB Scanpix

Award Ceremony for the 2016 Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
Photo: Stephanie Mitchell

The 2016 Holberg Conversation with Stephen Greenblatt
Foto: Holbergprisen

Masterclass with 2018 Holberg Laureate Cass Sunstein: “What to do about human error”
Foto: MaKay Savage, CC 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Nils Klim Seminar: “The Politics of Inclusion: Electoral Quotas in India”
Cass R. Sunstein og Francesca Jensenius. Foto: Christopher Olssøn og Rose Lincoln.

The 2018 Holberg Week
Styreleiar Sigmund Grønmo vil stå for kunngjeringa av prisvinnarane. Foto: Holbergsekretariatet

Announcement of the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize
Onora O’Neill. Foto: Martin Dijkstra.

The Holberg Conversation: “Trustworthiness before trust”
Onora O’Neill og Sigmund Grønmo under prisutdeling for Holbergprisen og Nils Klimprisen, 8. juni 2017.

Award Ceremony for the 2017 Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
Onora O’Neill. Foto: Martin Dijkstra.

The 2017 Holberg Lecture: «Justice without Ethics: A Twentieth Century Innovation?»
Foto: Martin Dijkstra/Thor Brødreskift-

The 2017 Holberg Week
Foto: Creative Commons CC0, via Pixabay

Masterclass with Onora O’Neill: Judgement and Interpretation
From the announcement ceremony in 2015. Photo: Svein-Arne Selvik

Announcement of the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize 2017
Holbergforelesningen holdes av årets holbergprisvinner, Cass Sunstein . Foto: Rose Lincoln.

The 2018 Holberg Lecture: “Freedom”
Holbergprisvinner Cass Sunstein og kronprins Haakon under prisutdelingsseremonien. Foto: Eivind Senneset.

Award Ceremony for The Holberg Prize and The Nils Klim Prize 2018
Cass Sunstein vil diskutere eksperters rolle i politikkutforming, på Litteraturhuset i Oslo. (Foto: Phil Farsworth.)

The Holberg Laureate LIVE: “Knowledge-based Policy-Making”
Grafikk: Universitetet i Bergen

The Prize Winner Conversation 2019: What Remains to be Discovered?
Demokrati versus autokrati.

The Long Lines of Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Democracy
Holbergdebatten 2023 vil ta for seg spørsmålet om hvordan bevisstheten oppstår, og om den kun finnes i hjernen.

The 2023 Holberg Debate: ‘Does Consciousness Extend Beyond Brains?’
The 2024 Holberg Prize is awarded to Professor Achille Mbembe (left.). The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Professor Siddharth Sareen (right). (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand / Trygve Tollefsen, The Young Academy of Norway.)

An Evening with the Holberg Prize
The 2024 Holberg Lecture: “The Earthly Community”
Diplomas and medal for the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize. Photo: Eivind Senneset

Award Ceremony for the 2024 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is awarded the 2025 Holberg Prize. The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Daniela Alaattinoğlu. (Photo: Alice Attie; Lennart Holmberg.)

The 2025 Holberg Week
Professor John J. Mearsheimer and og Carl Bildt vil diskutere global sikkerhet under Holbergdebatten 2022.

The 2022 Holberg Debate: ‘Will Fear Keep Us Safe?’
Årets panel består av Judith Butler, Cornel West og Glenn Greenwald. (Foto: University of California, Berkeley; Robin Holland; David dos Santos; Andrew Zuckerman.)

The 2021 Holberg Debate: ‘Identity Politics and Culture Wars’
Holbergprisvinner Achille Membe holdt sin takketale under prisutdelingen 6. juni 2024. (Foto: Eivind Senneset.)

Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe’s Acceptance Speech
Bergen / 06.06.2024: Prisutdeling for Holbergprisen og Nils Klim-prisen. Foto: Eivind Senneset, UiB

The Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize Conferred
Achille Mbembe holdt Holbergforelesningen 2024. Foto: Eivind Senneset

The 2024 Holberg Lecture, by Achille Mbembe
Illustration: Adam Ashby Gibbard / The Ecopolitics Podcast, licensed under CC by 2.0.”

The Holberg Masterclass: “Thoughts on the Planetary”
Holbergdebatten 2019 med Slavoj Žižek og Tyler Cowen.

The 2019 Holberg Debate: Slavoj Žižek: ‘Why I Am Still A Communist’
Griselda Pollock. Foto: Antony Bryant.

Towards a New Museum
Achille Mbembe. (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand.)

Seminar: “Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa”
Achille Mbembe and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen. (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand; Eivind Senneset).

The Holberg Laureate LIVE: Apartheid After South Africa
Achille Mbembe. Foto: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand

The Holberg Symposium: Democracy as a Community of Life
Achille Mbembe. (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand.)

Achille Mbembe
The 2024 Holberg Prize is awarded to Professor Achille Mbembe (left.). The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Professor Siddharth Sareen (right). (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand / Trygve Tollefsen, The Young Academy of Norway.)

Political Theorist Achille Mbembe Named 2024 Holberg Laureate
Achille Membe is the 2024 Holberg Laureate. (Photo: Chanté Schatz, University of the Witwatersrand.)

Reading Group: Achille Mbembe and Technology
The Holberg Committee
Illustrasjon: CC-lisens 2.0 Wikimedia Commons. Kunstverk av Banksy

The Holberg Symposium 2017: Ethics for Communication
Foto: Stephanie Mitchell

The Holberg Symposium 2016: Art in Life / Life in Art