"No lever vi i ei postprint-tid, og eg meiner å sjå ei tilbakevending til ein gammal kultur der det trykte ikkje lenger er autoritativt, men det som går frå munn til munn. I dag synest influensarar i aukande grad å vere dei folk trur på", sier Lyndal Roper. www.dagogtid.no/kultur/ho-se...

Today, the 2026 Nils Klim Prize was conferred upon Associate Professor Majse Lind. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) holbergprize.org/news/majse-l...

Today, the 2026 Holberg Prize was conferred upon Professor Lyndal Roper. Read or listen to her Acceptance Speech here. (Photo: Eivind Senneset) holbergprize.org/news/lyndal-...

Today, Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland conferred the Holberg Prize upon Professor Lyndal Roper and the Nils Klim Prize upon Associate Professor Majse Lind. We congratulate the Laureates! (Photo: Eivind Senneset) holbergprize.org/news/holberg...

The 2026 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony will begin at 14:00, CEST. Professor Lyndal Roper will receive the Holberg Prize, and Associate Professor Majse Lind will receive the Nils Klim Prize. Livestream link below. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIJk...

"Det historikerne ofte er dårligere til, er å forestille seg at mennesker faktisk opplevde at det var deres religiøse overbevisninger som drev dem." Professor Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen skriver om Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/hva-vi...

1/ "What makes people suddenly attracted to a conservative vision of the family?" Laureate Lyndal Roper delivered her Holberg Lecture today. The lecture can be watched in full on the link below: www.youtube.com/live/PEd-tiQ... (Photo: Silje Katrine Robinson)

A sound body makes for a sound mind. In preperation for Lyndal Roper's Masterclass, "Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement", the Holberg Laureate led the four participating PhD candidates through a physical exercise session. (Photo:Eivind Senneset)

The Holberg Lecture, by Laureate Lyndal Roper starts now. The topic is ‘‘Who owns Fertility? The Reformation’s Sexual Politics’ Livestream link and more information below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

1/ Welcome to day three of the Holberg Week. The Holberg Masterclass with Lyndal Roper, ‘Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement’, will start shortly. 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?

Great discussions today at the Nils Klim Symposium. From the left: Rikke Amalie Agergaard Jensen, Annabel Bogaerts, Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind, Moderator Per-Einar Binder, Elisabeth de Moor. Video is available here: www.youtube.com/live/HtDMjdY... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

A conversation at the House of Literature in Bergen, between the two Laureates, Lyndal Roper and Majse Lind, provided a wonderful ending to the second day of the Holberg Week. The event was moderated by Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize. (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

The last event of the day is ‘An Evening with the Holberg Prize’, featuring Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind in conversation. The event starts shortly. Livestream link below.

1/ Assistant Professor Rikke Jensen speaks at the Nils Klim symposium: “I argue that recovery cannot be understood as an individual outcome, but rather as a relational and narrative reorganization of life after disruption.

1/ Assistant Professor Elisabeth de Moor speaks at the Nils Klim Symposium: “Narrative identity captures a construct. It captures who we are as people and how we became that person."

1/ Assistant Professor Annabel Bogaerts speaks at the Nils Klim Symposium: "These findings are really valuable – but they describe distributions, not persons."

1/ Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind delivers her lecture at the start of the symposium held in her honour. Livestream/video link below. holbergprisen.no/arrangemente...

The 2026 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Majse Lind, starts now. In addition to the Laureate, the panel will consist of: Annabel Bogaerts (Univ. of Amsterdam) Elisabeth de Moor (Tilburg Univ.) Rikke Amalie Agergaard Jensen, (Univ. of Southern Denmark). holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

1/ Professor Barbara D. Savage speaks at the Holberg Symposium: “This opportunity to stand before you comes at a particularly painful time for scholars in the United States, as all fields of study is under siege, as is the very notion that expertise matters, whether in education or in government."

1/ Professor John-Paul Ghobrial speaks at the Holberg Symposium and points out a detail in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome: what is almost certainly the grave of writer Pietro della Valle (1586–1652), widely celebrated as “the early archetypal early modern explorer”.

Professor Annette Kehnel speaks at the Holberg Symposium: “History, I think, is footfalls down the passages we once took, or did not take—journeys through times and spaces that open our minds to diversity, to possibilities not yet, or no longer, realized.”

1/2 Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper introduces the Holberg Symposium topic. Livestream/video link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p... (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

The Holberg Week's open programme kicks off with the Holberg Symposium, ‘Where is History Moving? New Directions in Writing the Past’, in honour of Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper. The event will start shortly. Livestream link is available below. (Photo: Evind Senneset)

Professor Per-Einar Binder has just finished interviewing Nils Klim Laurate Majse Lind for the Nils Klim Conversation. The interview will be available on YouTube this autumn. See the full Holberg Week programme here: holbergprize.org/events.../th...

While the Holberg Week officially starts this evening, activities are already well under way. Here, Professor Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen has just finished interviewing Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper for the Holberg Conversation. For all this week's events, see: holbergprize.org/events.../th...

The Holberg Week starts on Monday, 1 June. Join us in celebration of Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind, as well as the Holberg School Programme finalists. For in-person attendance, register on the link below. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

What knowledge lies hidden in books where the words are still guarded by sand? Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper explains. Join us for the Holberg Week celebrations, 1–4 June. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

It was so cool to host Prof. Lyndal Roper, this year's @holbergprize.bsky.social winner on the pod 🎙️, to have a chat about her AMAZING book, Summer of FIRE and BLOOD: The German Peasants' War... Full convo HERE 👇🏻 youtu.be/uoz-72qwCio #medieval #feudal #revolution

Meet the 2026 Holberg Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper. Join the celebrations during the 2026 Holberg Week, 1–4 June, in Bergen, or watch the events on YouTube. holbergprize.org/events-and-p... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uip...

On 12 May, the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen will organise an interdisciplinary seminar devoted to the work of the 2026 Holberg laureate Lyndal Roper. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

Jürgen Habermas received the 2005 Holberg Prize for his contribution to "the understanding of rationality, ethics, legitimation, critical public discussion, modernity, the post-national society and European integration." We are saddened by his recent passing. holbergprize.org/news/in-memo...

"Du skal være hovedpersonen i dit eget liv." "Dagens gæster forsker i, hvad vores egen fortælling om vores liv betyder for vores trivsel." Årets Nils Klim-vinner, Majse Lind, er intervjuet i Danmarks Radio, for podcasten Brinkmanns briks. www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/brink...

From 10 to 12 April, Duke University, in collaboration with the Holberg Prize, will host a conference on Fredric Jameson and critical theory. The event features Holberg Laureates Achille Mbembe and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as keynote speakers. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...

"Roper mener Lutherforskere i stor grad har vært opptatt av hans teori om menneskers frelse. Men mener at man samtidig har blitt litt blinde for en helt sentral side ved Luthers teologi. Nemlig at Kristus virkelig er til stede i kroppen." Les intervjuet med Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper:

OPEN CALL: 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. The deadline for applications is 17 April, 2026.

Lyndal Roper has made history as the first Australian awarded the Holberg Prize — who is she? humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

"Hvem er jeg? En viktig komponent er vår livshistorie: Om hvor jeg kom fra, hva jeg har vært gjennom, og hvor jeg er på vei." Professor Per-Einar Binder beskriver Nils Klim-prisvinner Majse Linds forskning i Khrono. www.khrono.no/vi-er-histor...

I NRK Studio 2 igår gav UiB-professorene Gunnar Winsnes Knutsen og Per-Einar Binder en introduksjon til årets prisvinnere og deres forskning. Hør dem fortelle om Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper og Nils Klim-prisvinner Majse Lind på lenken under (fra 01:54:40). radio.nrk.no/serie/studio...

"History is fundamentally about the relationship between evidence and argument – what we need are the skills to assess evidence and to be able to test and look at and examine whether it supports the argument or not," says Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lyndal-...

"— Jeg tror vi alle innser betydningen av sterke institusjoner i den situasjonen verden befinner seg i nå. De bidrar til intellektuell frihet og gir folk sikkerhet, sier professor Roper." Les Khronos intervju med årets mottager av Holbergprisen, Lyndal Roper, under. www.khrono.no/holbergprisv...

Meet the 2026 Holberg Laureate, Professor Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford. Professor Roper receives the Holberg Prize for her ground-breaking research into early modern European history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqP...

The 2025 Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu is organising a webinar series, with support from the Holberg Prize: "Transitional Justice in Settler States: Challenges, Contradictions and Possibilities". Video from the series will be made available on YouTube. sites.utu.fi/marcen/news/...

Congratulations to @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Lyndal Roper for winning the @holbergprize.bsky.social holbergprize.org/news/holberg...

We congratulate the 2026 Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and the 2026 Nils Klim Prize Laureate Majse Lind! holbergprize.org/news/holberg...

The 2026 Nils Klim Prize is awarded to Danish psychologist Majse Lind of Aalborg University for her interdisciplinary research into mental health, with particular focus on disorders among young people and older adults. holbergprize.org/laureates/ni...

The 2026 Holberg Prize is awarded to Australian-British scholar Lyndal Roper of the University of Oxford for her ground-breaking research into early modern European history. holbergprize.org/laureates/ho...

The recipient of the 2026 Holberg Prize and the 2026 Nils Klim Prize, respectively, will be announced today, Tuesday, 17 March, at 09:00 CET / 8:00 GMT. Join us at the University Aula in Bergen, or watch the announcement here:

Siddharth Sareen, som mottok Nils Klim-prisen i 2024, er tildelt Fridtjof Nansens belønning for yngre forskere innen humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap for 2026. Vi gratulerer! www.dnva.no/detskjer/202...

The recipients of the 2026 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be announced on 17th March at 09:00 (CET). Both Prizes are awarded annually for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Join us in the University Aula in Bergen, or watch the livestream on YouTube.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE 2027 HOLBERG PRIZE The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. Deadline: 15 June. Who would you like to see as the next Holberg Laureate?