Holberg Prize Talks

2:18:26 | Jan 2nd, 2020

Slavoj Žižek has been called the «the most dangerous philosopher in the West» and a cultural theorist superstar, as he mixes Marxism with pop culture and psychoanalysis. In an age where the principles...Show More

57:03 | Nov 21st, 2019

2019 Nils Klim Laureate Finnur Dellsén is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Iceland. In this interview he discusses a range of topics, including his research in the philosophy of scie...Show More

1:01:46 | Nov 21st, 2019

In this interview, 2019 Holberg Prize Laureate Paul Gilroy discusses a range of topics, including his childhood and adolesence in post-colonial Britain, his research on race and identity, and how to b...Show More

27:14 | Feb 12th, 2019

In connection with the Holberg Committee meeting in Rome on 8 January, 2019, Committee member Mary Beard held a lecture at the Royal Norwegian Embassy on 7 January. The title of the lecture was: "What...Show More

29:25 | Feb 7th, 2019

2018 Nils Klim Laureate Franscesca R. Jensenius discusses her research, her background and more. Dr. Jensenius, Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), will...Show More

58:15 | Aug 16th, 2018

The Holberg Lecture is given by the 2018 Holberg Laureate, Professor Cass Sunstein. If people have freedom of choice, do their lives go better? Under what conditions? By what criteria? Consider thre...Show More

2:01:36 | Jun 20th, 2018

For the Holberg Masterclass on June 4, 2018, The Holberg Prize invited six Nordic PhD candidates to discuss the topic "What to do about Human Error" with 2018 Holberg Laureate Cass Sunstein. The event...Show More

1:58:56 | Jun 19th, 2018

The 2018 Nils Klim Laureate Francesca R. Jensenius presents her research and discusses the use of electoral quotas in India with Pradeep Chhibber, Pratap Mehta and Anne Waldrop. Electoral quotas have...Show More

1:04:53 | Jun 2nd, 2018

Should free speech laws be changed, and if so, how? How should the US approach the issue of gun control? And has the US Supreme Court become too politicized? These are some of the questions that 2018 ...Show More

36:25 | Apr 11th, 2018

I 2011 vant Jørn Jacobsen Nils Klim-prisen for sin forskning på norsk strafferett. I dette intervjuet fra 2017 snakker han blant annet om hvorfor han valgte en akademisk karriere, om verdien av rettst...Show More