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This academic symposium is held in honour of the 2025 Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The Laureate introduces the topic, followed by presentations by three invited speakers, a panel discussion and in the end an open Q&A session.
Our world today is progressively unhinged by evil; every new technology brings with it a new kind of crime; artificial intelligence makes it impossible to distinguish between truth and lie; war continues to wreck the planet. This terrible regression is accompanied by a gradual trivialization of the humanities. “The Humanities” are Literature and philosophy. All other disciplines produce knowledge. The humanities teach the practice of “learning” the other by training the imagination to displace itself into the space of the other. A literary text for literature, and a general human soul for philosophy. This power of the humanities offers practice against self-interest; perhaps even against greed, violence, and fear, all affects which keep you locked in yourself.
SPEAKERS
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate; University Professor, Columbia University.
- Oluwaseun Akinfenwa, PhD, Principal System Analyst, Kwara State University.
- Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta.
- Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of French Literature Thought and Culture and Comparative Literature.
- Moderator: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize; Professor, University of Bergen.
This event is part of the 2025 Holberg Week, which takes place from 3rd to 6th June, in Bergen and Oslo.
You may also like the following events from Holberg Prize:
- Next month, 3rd June, 01:00 pm, The Nils Klim Symposium, feat. Daniela Alaattinoğlu: ‘Nordic Rights Development from the Margins?’ in Bergen
- Next month, 3rd June, 06:00 pm, An Evening with the Holberg Prize in Bergen
- Next month, 4th June, 10:00 am, The Holberg Masterclass with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: ‘The Practice of Learning’ in Bergen
Also check out other
Arts events in Bergen,
Literary Art events in Bergen,
Business events in Bergen.
