Holberg Prize
This channel features lectures, interviews and speeches by the Holberg Laureates, Nils Klim Laureates, and other guests at Holberg Prize events. The objective of the Holberg Prize is to increase awareness of the value o research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology.
The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually to a scholar who have made outstanding contributions to research in the fields mentioned above. The Prize amounts to NOK 6 000 000 (approximately EUR 525,000 or USD 575,000 as of 01.04.2020). The Prize was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003, and awarded for the first time in 2004. It is named after the Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg.
The Holberg Prize organisation also awards the Nils Klim Prize each year to a scholar from the Nordics under 35 years within the same above mentioned fields, and hosts a research competition called the Holberg Prize School Project for students in Norwegian upper secondary schools.
Global Polycrisis and the Powers of Narrative: The Role of Academia, Art, and Public Intellectuals
The 2025 Nils Klim Conversation: Daniela Alaattinoğlu.
Nothing Comes From Nothing: Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare and New Historicism
Stephen Greenblatt: ‘Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud’
Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Swerve Revisited: How the World Became Modern’
Holberg Laureate Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Master’s Books’
The 2024 Holberg Conversation: Achille Mbembe
The 2024 Nils Klim Conversation: Siddharth Sareen
Fictionality in Literature: The 2023 Nils Klim Conversation with Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen
Award Ceremony: The 2009 Holberg Prize Conferred upon Ian Hacking.
The 2023 Holberg Conversation with Joan Martinez-Alier.
Award Ceremony for the 2023 Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
The 2022 Holberg Conversation with Sheila Jasanoff
The 2022 Nils Klim Conversation with Elisa Uusimäki.
The 2021 Holberg Conversation with Martha C. Nussbaum
The 2021 Nils Klim Conversation with Daria Gritsenko.
Sivamohan Valluvan: "The Long March of Racial Nationalisms: Left Complicities and Convivial Margins"
Lidia Curti: "From Black Humanism to the Violence of the Present"
Katherine McKittrick: "Wires, Kerosene, Data"
Temi Odumosu: "Sensitive Skin"
Tyler Cowen: "Which are the true perils facing democracy?"
Tali Sharot: "Cognitive Obstacles to Truth"
Samantha Power: "Confronting Challenges to Democracy"
Lawrence Lessig: "On How People Speak"
Steven Barnett: "Whose Ethics?"
Rowan Cruft: "Communication and Collective Action"
Rae Langton: "Post-Truth as Post-Democracy"
Jonathan Heawood: "Culture vs Ethics"
Sarah Cole: "Art in War and War in Art"
Louis Menand: "What are we looking at..."