This week, the Holberg Committee convened at The British Academy in London to agree on a shortlist of candidates for the 2026 Holberg Prize. The recipient's name will be announced on 17th March. 1/

The Holberg Prize is very pleased to announce: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲: ‘𝗜𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱?’ 9th December, 2025, 17:00, CET / 11:00 AM, EST. On the panel: 𝗠𝗿. 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗼𝗿, and 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝘁 Moderator: 𝗠𝗿. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘂𝗿 holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

"Eg brukar å seie til studentane mine i USA at Gud ikkje skreiv på engelsk." Under Holberguken i juni foretok Prosa et intervju med årets Holbergprisvinner Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Intervjuet kan leses her: prosa.no/artikler/spa...

Yes—there will be a Holberg Debate this year! Get ready for a compelling debate at the University Aula in Bergen, on 9th December. Save the date. Are you excited to know the topic and the lineup? (Of course you are!)

Our friends at @holbergprize.bsky.social are holding an event at the British Academy featuring Paul Gilroy, Griselda Pollock. Gurminder Bhambra and Ann Phoenix. Thursday 23rd Oct. All welcome but you must register holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

The 4th June Holberg Masterclass, featuring Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, was entitled "The Practice of Learning". Here, five PhD candidates spoke on their research, (from the left): Sabina Ivenäs, Sadie Hale, Johannes Sartou, Telma Velez, Jillian Loise Melchor Photo: Eivind Senneset. 1/2

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE 2026 HOLBERG PRIZE AND NILS KLIM PRIZE. Deadline: 15 June 2025. The Holberg Prize is an international award for outstanding research in humanities, social sciences, law, or theology. The Nils Klim Prize is awarded to scholars under 40 from/in the Nordic countries.

A wonderful Holberg Week was concluded on 6th June. We wish to thank the Laureates, as well as everyone who contributed or attended. Please see our Flickr page for photos and our events page for video links. www.flickr.com/photos/holbe... holbergprize.org/events-and-p... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

Dag og Tid intervjuet Holbergprisvinner Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak under Holberguken. Les intervjuet her. (Betalingsmur.) www.dagogtid.no/kultur/vestl...

The Holberg Week's last event, "The Holberg Laureate LIVE, 'Learning From Below'", starts at 18:00, CEST, at the House of Literature in Oslo. It features Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Associate Professor Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay in conversation. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

Today, the 2025 Nils Klim Prize was conferred upon Assistant Professor Daniela Alaattinoğlu. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here: holbergprize.org/news/2025-ni...

Today, the 2025 Holberg Prize was conferred upon Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here: holbergprize.org/news/2025-ho...

Today, H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon of Norway conferred the Holberg Prize upon Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Assistant Professor Daniela Alaattinoğlu received the Nils Klim Prize. We congratulate the Laureates! holbergprize.org/news/2025-ho...

The 2025 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony will begin at 14:00, CEST / 08:00 AM, EDT. Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will receive the Holberg Prize, and Assistant Professor Daniela Alaattinoğlu will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Livestream link below.

The Holberg Lecture, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is about to start. "An imperative is an urgent command, generally brought about by external circumstances. Today, natural violence creates an imperative to develop a planetary view of the future." holbergprize.org/events-and-p... Livestream:

Get to know the Nils Klim Laureate and her research better! We are delighted to share this interview with Daniela Alaattinoğlu. The interview is conducted and produced by the University of Turku. soundcloud.com/holbergprize... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

Welcome to the 2nd day of the Holberg Week. The Holberg Masterclass with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will start shortly. More information and livestream link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

A conversation at the House of Literature in Bergen, between the two Laureates, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Daniela Alaattinoğlu, provided a wonderful ending to the first day of the Holberg Week. Join us tomorrow for more events. (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

More great discussions on this first day of the Holberg Week, here at the Nils Klim Symposium. Group photo, from the left: Vibeke Blaker Strand, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Maya Unnithan, and Reetta Toivanen. Watch the video here: youtube.com/live/ZUloCw2...

The last event of the day is An Evening with the Holberg Prize, featuring Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu in conversation. The event starts now. Livesream link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here: holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

The final speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Maya Unnithan: “A human rights based approach provides a significant framework with which to conceptualize and advance change where gender inequality and injustice permeate."

Great discussions today at the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities’. Group photo, from the left: Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, Emily Apter, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Lakshmi Subramanian. Video is available here: youtube.com/live/PIpbveO... (Photo: Eivind Senneset.)

The next speaker at the Nils Klim Seminar is Reetta Toivanen: “Law not only protects people, it also co-produces them. In other words, legal systems are social technologies that at the same time empower and make up the minorities they seek to cover.”

At the Nils Klim Seminar, Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu introduces the topic: “In the Nordic countries—Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—are often seen as progressive societies."

The 2025 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu, will start shortly. The topic is "Nordic Rights Development from the Margins? Reassessing Legal Inclusion and Exclusion.” Livestream link is available below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

The second third Holberg Symposium speaker is Lakshmi Subramanian, who speaks on “The Paradox of the Humanities in India”

The second Holberg Symposium speaker is Oluwaseun Akinfenwa: “The humanities have long served as a mirror, through which societies understand themselves.”

The first panel speaker at the Holberg Symposium is Emily Apter: “The humanities in the US and also worldwide is directly under attack. Higher education, including the hard sciences, are now being explicitly targeted, as a supposed read-out of ‘wokeness’."

"The humanities, in my strict reading, are literature and philosophy, although all disciplines should be supplemented by the humanities. To supplement is to question the totalization of anything", says Holberg Laurate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as she introduces the topic at the Holberg Symposium.

The 2025 Holberg Week kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, "The Power of the Humanities", in honour of Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The event will start shortly. Watch the livestream here: holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

Today, Jørn Jacobsen interviewed Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn. The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme here: holbergprize.org/events-and.....

Professor Jørn Jacobsen has just finished interviewing Nils Klim Laurate Daniela Alaattinoğlu for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube in early autumn. The public events of the Holberg Week start tomorrow. See the full programme at holbergprize.org.

While the Holberg Week officially starts tomorrow, activities are already well under way. Here, Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt are getting ready for the Holberg Conversation, which will be broadcast on TV and published on YouTube this autumn.

The Holberg Week starts on 3rd June. As a warm-up to the events, we are very pleased to share this interview with the 2025 Holberg Laureate, Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, where she talks about the major areas of her work, as well her life and career path. soundcloud.com/holbergprize...

The Holberg Week starts on 3rd June. On 5th June, the Holberg Prize will be conferred upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the Nils Klim Prize will be conferred upon Daniela Alaattinoğlu. Join us in Bergen and Oslo, or watch the livestreams. Full details below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

Meet the 2025 Holberg Masterclass participants! From 80 applicants, five PhD candidates were selected to participate in the 4th June Masterclass with 2025 Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, entitled "The Practice of Learning". holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

The 2025 Holberg Week takes place in Bergen and Oslo from 3rd to 6th June. Join us in celebration of Holberg Laureate, Gayatri C. Spivak; Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu; and the recipients of the Holberg School Programme awards. Register below for in-person attendance. bit.ly/3S1jx3B

Brit Marie Hovland, førsteamanuensis ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole, skriver i Khrono om årets Holbergprisvinner Gayatri C. Spivak, norsk forsoning og struping av amerikansk akademia. www.khrono.no/norsk-forson...

"[I]n a time of growing backlash against human rights, the humanities, and gender studies in particular, I think it is especially important that research in these areas is recognised and valued," says Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu in this interview. cgsjournal.com/v2n102

Earlier this year, the Holberg Prize travelled to Delhi and Jaipur together with 2016 Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt, who did three events and an in-depth interview. All four video productions are now avaiable at the Holberg Prize YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRF... 1/

I seneste nummer av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift publiseres hele fire oversatte tekster fra Holberguken 2024 (betalingsmur): • Holbergforelesningen "Det jordiske fellesskap", av Achille Mbembe, mottager av Holbergprisen 2024. 1/

The winner of this year’s @holbergprize.bsky.social tells @helenpacker.bsky.social why she rejects the vocational focus of education and the ‘trivialisation’ of the humanities #AcademicSky #EduSky

Last June, I gave a lecture at the Nils Klim Prize seminar in the University of Bergen Aula 'Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact' (thanks, @holbergprize.bsky.social!). That has now been translated to Norwegian and published in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift today: www.scup.com/eprint/DZW5Z...

On 31st March, the research group Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research, University of Bergen, will host an open seminar where participants are invited to discuss Holberg Laureate Gayatri C. Spivak’s text: "Teaching for a Broken World". www.uib.no/en/skok/1772...

In 2023, the Holberg Prize was awarded to Joan Martinez-Alier for his research in ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice. Martinez-Alier was recently inteviewed by Global Dialogue. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/pod...

"Det ser ut til at eksperimentet som ble utført av den europeiske opplysningstiden – og den sterke forpliktelsen overfor demokratiet – er i ferd med å forvitre", sier årets holbergprisvinner Gayatri C. Spivak i dette intervjuet med Klassekampen. (Betalingsmur) klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Årets Nils Klim-prisvinner, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, intervjues i Vasabladet. (Betalingsmur.) www.vasabladet.fi/Artikel/Visa...

As part of the celebration of the 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, on 4 June in Bergen we are hosting a PhD Masterclass, i.e. anyone currently a PhD student in the Nordic countries, regardless of citizenship: holbergprize.org/news/call-fo... @holbergprize.bsky.social

PhD candidates in Nordic countries may now apply for a 4 June Masterclass, “The Practice of Learning”, with 2025 Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The Masterclass will take place in Bergen, Norway, during the Holberg Week. Participants earn 5 ECTS credits. Application deadline: 25 April.