Holberg Prize

The Holberg International Memorial Award
Awarded for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology.
Country Norway
Presented by Government of Norway
First awarded 2004
Official website holbergprisen.no

The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually by the government of Norway to outstanding scholars for work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law and theology, either within one of these fields or through interdisciplinary work.

The prize was established by the Parliament of Norway in honour of Ludvig Holberg in 2003 and complements its sister prize in mathematics, the Abel Prize. Ludvig Holberg excelled in all of the sciences covered by the award. It has been described as the "Nobel prize" for the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology.[1]

The Holberg Prize is funded by the government's budget through a direct allocation from the Ministry of Education and Research to the University of Bergen, and is administered by the University of Bergen on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research. The Holberg Prize award ceremony takes place annually in Bergen, Norway in June.

The Holberg Board awards the prize at the recommendation of the Holberg Committee who consists of five outstanding researchers in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Holberg Committee gathers assessments on the short-list candidates from international recognized scholars before giving their recommendation to the Board. The Prize amount is 4.5 million Norwegian kroner (approximately €500,000), which are intended to be used to further the research of the recipient.

Laureates

Year Laureate(s) Institution Nationality Citation
2004 Julia Kristeva Paris Diderot University Bulgarian
French		 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture and literature which inspired research across the humanities and the social sciences throughout the world and have also had a significant impact on feminist theory”
2005 Jürgen Habermas University of Frankfurt German "for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy”
2006 Shmuel Eisenstadt Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israeli "for developing comparative knowledge of exceptional quality and originality concerning social change and modernization, and concerning relations between culture, belief systems and political institutions.”
2007 Ronald Dworkin New York University
University College London		 American "for developing an original and highly influential legal theory grounding law in morality, characterized by a unique ability to tie together abstract philosophical ideas and arguments with concrete everyday concerns in law, morals, and politics.”
2008 Fredric Jameson Duke University American "for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the "poetics of social forms".”
2009 Ian Hacking University of Toronto Canadian "for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts.”
2010 Natalie Zemon Davis University of Toronto
Princeton University		 Canadian
American		 "for being one of the most creative historians writing today, an intellectual who is not hostage to any particular school of thought or politics.”
2011 Jürgen Kocka Free University of Berlin German "for effecting a paradigm shift in German historiography by opening it up to related social sciences and establishing the importance of cross-national comparative approaches.”
2012 Manuel Castells University of Southern California Spanish for shaping "our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society"
2013 Bruno Latour Sciences Po French for having "undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity, and [having] challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between modern and pre-modern, nature and society, human and non-human"[2]
2014 Michael Cook Princeton University British for "... reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiyya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology. "[3]
2015 Marina Warner Birkbeck College, University of London British for "... analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place. She is known for the emphasis of gender roles and feminism in her literary work. "[4]
2016 Stephen Greenblatt Harvard University USA for "... one of the most important Shakespeare scholars of his generation. "[5]

Symposiums

Committee

The Holberg Prize Academic Committee is composed of five members:

Other prizes

As part of its research dissemination targeting younger people, the committee also awards the Nils Klim Prize to an academic below the age of 35, and the Holberg Prize Schools Project to a high school.[15]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20120415082644343
  2. ↑ Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize, Holberg Prize
  3. ↑ Michael Cook | Statement from the Holberg Committee
  4. ↑ Marina Warner | Statement from the Holberg Committee
  5. ↑ Stephen Greenblatt | Statement from the Holberg Committee
  6. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/julia-kristeva/holbergprisens-symposium-2004-julia-kristeva.html
  7. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/juergen-habermas/holbergprisens-symposium-2005-juergen-habermas.html
  8. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/shmuel-n-eisenstadt/holbergprisens-symposium-2006-shmuel-n-eisenstadt.html
  9. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/ronald-dworkin/holbergprisens-symposium-2007.html
  10. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/fredric-r-jameson/holbergprisens-symposium-2008.html
  11. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/holbergs-internasjonale-minnepris/holbergprisens-symposium-2009.html
  12. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/natalie-zemon-davis/holbergprisens-symposium-2010.html
  13. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/holbergs-internasjonale-minnepris/holbergprisens-symposium-2011.html
  14. ↑ http://www.holbergprisen.no/holbergs-internasjonale-minnepris/holbergprisens-symposium-2012.html
  15. ↑ The Holberg Prize – School projects
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