The Nils Klim Symposium, feat. Daniela Alaattinoğlu: ‘Nordic Rights Development from the Margins?’

The symposium is held in honour of the 2025 Nils Klim Laureate Daniela Alaattinoğlu. The Laureate's lecture is followed by presentations by three invited speakers, a panel discussion and a Q&A session. How can experiences often marginalised in legal discussions enrich current accounts of Nordic rights development? The Nordic rights development narrative, shifting from scepticism to revolution, often centres on elite perspectives: courts, parliaments and public institutions. Drawing on three cases – sterilisation policies targeting trans people, forced reproductive control of Indigenous women in Greenland, and oppression of the Indigenous Sámi – this lecture explores rights developments ‘from the margins’, showing how law can be used to oppress, but also to advance the position of individuals and groups. This event is part of the 2025 Holberg Week, which takes place from 3rd to 6th June, in Bergen and Oslo. Please see the Holberg Prize website for more information: https://bit.ly/3Ys6Z8O SPEAKERS - Daniela Alaattinoğlu, 2025 Nils Klim Laureate; Assistant Professor, University of Turku. - Reetta Toivanen, Professor, University of Helsinki. - Vibeke Blaker Strand, Professor, University of Oslo. - Maya Unnithan, Professor, University of Sussex. - Moderator: Jørn Jacobsen, Professor, University of Bergen. Photo: Lennart Holmberg.