An Evening with the Holberg Prize, feat. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Daniela Alaattinoğlu

This event will feature the Holberg Laureate Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu in conversation about their background, research and their experiences from academia. The conversation will be moderated by Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt. This event is part of the 2025 Holberg Week, which takes place from 3rd to 6th June. The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology. The Prize is worth NOK 6,000,000 (approximately EUR 505,000 / USD 580,000). For more information on the Laureates and the Holberg Week, se holbergprize.org. PARTICIPANTS Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the 2025 Holberg Laureate. She has held the position of University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University since 2007, where she has been a faculty member since 1991, and where she is also a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Spivak has published nine books and translated many others. Her works have been translated into over 20 languages. Spivak’s key works include In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), and Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching (2018). Her latest book is Spivak Moving (2024). Daniela Alaattinoğlu is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Turku and the recipient of the 2025 Nils Klim Prize. She is the Principal Investigator of the project From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (MARCEN), funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant, 2025–2029). Her research has been supported by grants from the Icelandic Research Fund (2020–2023), the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (2020–2022), and the Research Council of Finland (2014–2019) among others. Alaattinoğlu is also the co-editor of Retfærd: The Nordic Journal of Law and Justice and the co-founder of the research environment Law, Space and Justice at the Turku Law Faculty. Kari Jegerstedt (moderator) is Associate Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities and Head of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen. She works predeominantly with postcolonial, decolonial and psychoanalytic perspectives on gender, feminism, power and global societal challenges, and has over the last years specialized on anglophone African, contemporary literature with a special focus on South Africa. Photo: Alice Attie / Lennart Holmberg.