The Holberg Prize is offering scholarships for five PhD candidates in the Nordic countries to participate in a Masterclass with Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the topic “The Practice of…

On Thursday, 13 March, the 2025 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be announced at the University Aula in Bergen. At the event, the Rector of the University of Bergen, Margareth Hagen…

The Nils Klim Prize is awarded annually to a scholar from/in the Nordic countries, under the age of 40, for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology.

The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Holberg Prize was established by the…

Det ekstreme blir stadig mer normalt, ifølge Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Den amerikanske ekstremismeforskeren mener resten av verden bør stille USA til ansvar for spredningen av høyreekstreme ideer.

On 16th January, the Letten Prize and the Holberg Prize will organise a seminar on empowering young scholars and their groundbreaking work. This event is a collaboration between the Letten Prize and…

Is the West in decline, and if so, what are the implications for the future of democracy and the global order? This is the central question for the 2024 Holberg Debate. The discussion will centre on the following issues: * The challenges facing Western democracies, such as instability, discontent, extremism, populism, disinformation and social fragmentation. What are currently the greatest threats to democracy and stability in the West? * The cultural and ideological shifts within Western societies. * The extent to which autocracies work to undermine the democratic world. By what means should they be opposed? * The decline of Western influence in global affairs, as the world becomes more multipolar. What are the implications for global stability and prosperity. Panel: Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Yanis Varoufakis leads MeRA25 in Greece and is co-founder of the pan-European movement DiEM25 as well as the Progressive International. He is an academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015. Konstantin Kisin is a Sunday Times best-selling author, comedian, satirist, social commentator and host of TRIGGERnometry, a free speech YouTube show and podcast, based on open, fact-based discussion of important and controversial issues. Moderator: Sara Montague is a British journalist and presenter. Since 1997, she has presented several of the BBC’s most popular radio and TV programmes, including HARDtalk, Today og The World at One. More information: holbergprize.org.

Explications par Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Antonella Di Trani et Morten Nielsen dans le 2ème numéro du Journal de la FMSH

Job title: PhD Position in Latin American History connected to the DARKLAX project (271256), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025

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Siddharth Sareen was awarded the 2024 Nils Klim Prize. On 20th November, he will organise twin seminars on “Mobilising Change and Changing Mobility”. Each year, the recipient of the Nils Klim Prize…