The Holberg Prize
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International prize awarded annually for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Administered by the University of Bergen, Norway. Funded by the Norwegian Government.
During Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper's recent lecture tour in Australia, several excellent interviews were conducted, including this conversation with the Australian Financial Review. I captures something essential about both her scholarship and the spirit of the Holberg Prize. Link in the comments.
Yesterday, Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper joined ABC National Radio's Late Night Live for an hour-long conversation on the Reformation era and the German Peasants' War of 1524–1525, themes explored in her latest book, The Summer of Fire and Blood. Link in the comments. (Photo: Eivind Senneset.)
As part of an event series organised by Australian Academy of the Humanities, in partnership with the Holberg Prize, Laureate Lyndal Ropert delivered the Academy Lecture yesterday, at the The University of Melbourne. The lecture was entitled 'Brotherhood: Gender and the German Peasants’ War 1524-26'
On 23 September, Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper held the lecture ‘"Dr Liar" meets “The Devil Himself‘’: Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer' at the The University of Queensland, followed by discussions between Professor Roper and Emeritus Professor Peter Harrison. holbergprize.org/events-and-p...
Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper is doing events Australia this month. Today's event at the University of Sydney is about to start. From the left: Norwegian Ambassador Per Albert Ilsaas; Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper; Chair of the Holberg Prize Board Prof. Jørgen Sejersted. Photo: Stephen Blake
The AAH will partner with @holbergprize.bsky.social to bring Professor Lyndal Roper FAHA, 2026 Holberg Prize Laureate and Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, to Australia for three public lectures this September. humanities.org.au/events/aah-h...
In April 2026, Duke University, in collaboration with the Holberg Prize, hosted a conference on 2008 Holberg Laureate Fredric Jameson and critical theory. The conference was a three‑day celebration of Fredric Jameson’s scholarship, exploring the future of critical theory. 1/
The 2021 Nils Klim Laureate Daria Gritsenko was appointed Professor of Algorithmic Governance and Public Policy at TU München in 2025. In this podcast, she discusses how digital technologies are reshaping government and how algorithmic decision-making affects democratic legitimacy and public trust.
How algorithms change public decision-making
In this episode of “NewIn,” we meet Daria Gritsenko. The new professor of Algorithmic Governance and Public Policy examines how digital technologies are reshaping government and how algorithmic decisi...
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Thank you to everyone who nominated a candidate! We received a record number of nominations for both the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize by the 15 June deadline. Missed the deadline? Nominations for the 2028 Holberg Prize and 2028 Nils Klim Prize are now being accepted. shorturl.at/I4Slv
Record Number of Nominations for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize
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Read Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's interview with Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper on the link below. (Paywall.) (Photo: Eivind Senneset.) www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
"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...
(+) Ho ser historia nedanfrå
Om vi ikkje lærer studentane kritisk tenking og korleis dei skal arbeide med KI, gjer vi oss irrelevante, seier vinnar av Holbergprisen Lyndal Roper.
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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...
Majse Lind’s Acceptance Speech
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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-...
Lyndal Roper’s Acceptance Speech
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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...
(+) Hva vil det si å bo i en verden der Gud og djevelen er virkelige størrelser?
Holbergprisvinner Lyndal Roper gir oss et mindre arrogant historiefag, skriver Gunnar W. Knutsen.
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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...
The 2026 Holberg Lecture: ‘Who Owns Fertility? The Reformation’s Sexual Politics’
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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...
The 2026 Nils Klim Symposium: ‘Storying the Person in a Mental Health Crisis’
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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”.
