The Holberg Masterclass with Gayatri C. Spivak: ‘The Practice of Learning’

Please see the Holberg Prize website for registration, livestream link and more information: https://bit.ly/4jqs3Vp

PhD candidates in the Nordic countries may apply to participate. Application deadline is 25th April: https://bit.ly/3G1eUUB

Five PhD candidates in the Nordic countries are invited to participate in a masterclass with Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Each participant will be asked to prepare a 5-minute presentation related to the theme chosen by the Laureate. After the presentations there will be a panel discussion.

In the practice of learning, as taught by the humanities, you attempt to hold yourself effaced, suspending judgment, in order to displace yourself into the space of what you are trying to learn. This is imaginative activism. The literary or philosophical text stages a field of desire. Uninstructed reading usually takes the text to be a fulfilment of those desires. This Masterclass will discuss these and related issues.

More information about the participants will follow.

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, 06:00 pm, An Evening with the Holberg Prize in Bergen
• Next month, 4th June, 02:00 pm, The Holberg Lecture: ‘Imperatives to Re-imagine the Future’ in Bergen
• Next month, 5th June, 02:00 pm, Award Ceremony for the 2025 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize in Bergen

Also check out other Business events in Bergen, Arts events in Bergen, Literary Art events in Bergen.