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How can local and historical knowledge contribute to rethinking current, planetary issues? Four excellent young researchers form the Nordics share perspectives from their research.
Do conscious experiences happen both within and outside the brain, and can science solve the 'hard problem' of consciousness?
Elisa Katariina Uusimäki received thye Nils Klim Prize in 2022. On 1 December, 2023, she will organize the symposium "Travel and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean".
The 2 December Holberg Debate will explore whether or not cosciousness extends beyond brains. As a warm-up to the debate, three researchers from the University of Bergen will discuss how consiousness should be understood.
In this session, the participants will engage in an open-ended conversation and consider what acts of public imagination are most needed in the present – to establish the grounds of collective thought and within the turnings and sometimes the convulsions of generational time.
This symposium will take the form of an moderated open-ended panel discussion, in which the participants seek answers and insight to the following key question: What are the key elements of future institutions that are needed to deepen democracy and to support intergenerational fair transitions?
In this symposium the speakers each present their perspectives on co-production in the Anthropocene before engaging in a moderated panel discussion.
Keynote by Professor Sheila Jasanoff followed by commentary and a conversation with Professor Achille Mbembe and moderator Professor Zeblon Vilakazi.
Seminar on environmental justice and related issues, in collaboration with CICERO and NMBU.
Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Valuation Contests in the Environmental Justice Movements arising worldwide.
The Official Award Ceremony for the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize.
20 upper secondary schools and around 1000 students from all over Norway participate in the Holberg Prize School Project each year.
Mapping geographies of resistance at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal in a world counter-movement for environmental justice. Lecture by the 2023 Holberg Laureate, Joan Martinez-Alier.
How can the study of Social Metabolism in Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology lead to Political Ecology, through the Arctic region?
The Holberg Prize Laureate and the Nils Klim Prize Laureate in conversation.