An Evening with the Holberg Prize, feat. Lyndal Roper and Majse Lind.

This event will feature the Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper and the Nils Klim Laureate Majse Lind in conversation about their background, research and their experiences from academia. This event is part of the 2026 Holberg Week, which takes place from 1st to 4th 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 535,000 / USD 615,000). For more information on the Laureates and the Holberg Week, se holbergprize.org. PARTICIPANTS Lyndal Roper is a historian of German history 1500 to1800, especially women and gender. She has written a biography of the reformer Martin Luther, and last year published "Summer of Fire and Blood," a history of the German Peasants’ War: to write it, she walked or cycled just about all the areas affected by the War. She has taught at King’s College London, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Oxford. In 2011 she became Regius Professor of History at Oxford, the first woman to hold the 300 year old post. She co-edited the journal Past & Present for over a decade and has been a member of History Workshop Journal Collective for forty years. Now she runs experimental workshops, ‘Moving History’, teaching critical and creative thinking in combination with (light!) physical exercise. Majse Lind (b. 1989) earned her PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark. She subsequently held postdoctoral positions at Northeastern University in Boston, USA, and at the University of Florida, USA, before joining Aalborg University, where she has been Associate Professor of Psychology since August 2025. Her research centers on what William James famously described as psychology’s most puzzling puzzle: identity. She investigates identity at the intersection of personality development and personality pathology, with a particular focus on narrative identity. Dr. Lind is Director of the IN:DEPTH Lab (IdeNtity, DEvelopment, and Personality paTHology), where she leads several ambitious research projects funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and the Carlsberg Foundation. She is also Co-Director of the AI:MIND Lab together with Niels Van Berkel from Computer Science, where they integrate artificial intelligence methods to detect and intervene on early markers of personality pathology. Photo: John Cairns / Sara Mee Joo.