Holberg Prize Talks

Holberg Laureates Stephen Greenblatt and Manuel Castells discuss the status of the humanities and the social sciences, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, September 22, 2017.

The Norwegian Economist Katrine Vellesen Løken was awarded the Nils Klim Prize in 2017 for her research on the Nordic welfare states, with particular emphasis on family economics, labour economics and health economics. In this interview Vellesen Løken talks about her research, developments in the field of Economics and her future plans. Interviewer; Ole Andreas Sandmo Photo: Thor Brødreskift / The Holberg Prize

The British Philosopher Onora O'Neill is awarded the Holberg Prize 2017 for her influental work in the field of moral and political philosophy. She is particularly well known for her work on Kant, bioethics, human rights, trust and communication ethics. O'Neill is a also a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1999 and a former President of the British Academy. In this interview, she speaks about her background, carreer and work.

How are environmental issues a legal concern, and what are the mechanisms that control environmental markets and emissions trading? These are some of the questions 2016 Nils Klim Laureate Sanja Bogojević answers in this interview.

The 2015 Holberg Prize goes to the distinguished and praised mythographer and author Marina Warner (b. 1946). In this special episode of Udannet Knut talks with Warner about her upbringing and her way into the academics. Warner also elaborates on her approach to fairytales, myth, history and gender. At the end of the episode, Warner talks about the significance of getting the Prize and why she quit her position at the University of Essex. This episode was produced in collaboration between The Holberg Prize 2015 and the podcast U-dannet, http://u-dan.net/ . The Holberg Prize is awarded annually to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social science, law or theology. The Prize amounts to 4.5 million NOK (app. 538.000 EUR / 735.000 USD).

Losing Home, Finding Words: Transformations of Story. The Holberg Lecture 2015 by Marina Warner, Fellow of All Souls and Professor of English and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, University of London