The Holberg Masterclass with Lyndal Roper: ‘Bodies, Gender, Psyche, Movement’

All disciplines produce knowledge and the students learn to know. The humanities – literature and philosophy – teach the practice of learning. In knowing, you know an object. Five PhD candidates in the Nordic countries are invited to participate in a masterclass with Holberg Laureate Lyndal Roper. 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. SPEAKER Lyndal Roper, Holberg Laureate and Professor of History Emeritus, University of Oxford Miriam Sünder, PhD, University of Gothenburg Nearchos Potamitis, PhD, Aarhus University Edna Huotari, PhD, University of Helsinki Jon Martin Perander, PhD, University of Bergen Sigrún Jónsdóttir, PhD, University of Iceland ABSTRACT How do we get beyond discourse about ‘the body’ – after all, there is no such thing as THE body – and what opens up if we no longer assume gender is binary? AI of course doesn’t have a body. How can we enrich our account of human agency by thinking about emotions, including religious ones, and the unconscious? And how does our thinking change when we move?  This event is part of the 2026 Holberg Week, which takes place from 1 to 4 June, in Bergen, Norway. Please see the Holberg Prize website for more information: https://holbergprize.org/ Event image: Detail from “The Century: Midsummer holiday number”(ca. 1897) by Maxfield Parrish. Original from Library of Congress. Available in Public Domain. Accessed via Rawpixel.com