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Thanks for an excellent interview and conversation, Kjetil Rommetveit, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Grateful to The Holberg Prize for enabling such an experience.

The 2024 Nils Klim Seminar, in honour of Laureate Siddharth Sareen, is about to start. The topic is "Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact!" Watch the livestream on the link below. In addition to the Laureate, the panel will consist of Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen

Today, Siddharth Sareen received the The Holberg Prize #NilsKlim award for research at Universitetet i Bergen. Here he is giving his acceptance speech, 'Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact'. You are an inspiration, Siddharth, and we are proud to have you on our team.

A great Day 1 of the Holberg Week will be wrapped up with a conversation between the Laurates at the House of Literature in Bergen. Achille Mbembe and Siddharth Sareen will speak about their background, their research and their experiences from academia. Moderator: Associate

Life and research after an ALS diagnosis. Read some reflections about it from my mentor and friend. He is an outstanding role model! @torbenja nmbu.no/en/faculties/f…

Today, Norway’s Minister of Research and Higher Education Oddmund Hoel conferred the Holberg Prize upon Professor Achille Mbembe and the Nils Klim Prize upon Professor Siddharth Sareen. We congratulate the Laureates! holbergprize.org/en/news/holber… (Photo: Eivind Senneset)

On 5 June, at the University Aula in Bergen, Laureate Achille Mbembe delivered the 2024 Holberg Lecture, entitled "The Earthly Community". The manuscript is published here in full. Video is also available. holbergprize.org/en/news/holber…

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

Murió James C. Scott el 19 de julio. Era un politólogo y especialista en el Sudeste Asiático - y un disidente dentro de la Ciencia Política. Pero sus libros abrieron líneas de investigación sobre cuestiones centrales como el ejercicio del poder y la resistencia al poder.👇

Rapporten viser nemleg at årsakene til at den akademiske fridommen er truga er først og fremst politisk styring og forskingsfinansiering. khrono.no/annankvar-sven…

The world has lost the legendary scholar James C. Scott. Jim's pioneering work on resistance and state dynamics will continue to inspire. 🎧 Hear his thoughts on our podcast, discussing his influential books and more with Dan Banik. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can…

The solution is simple Venezuelas Ambassade i Norge : Just show the tallies (las actas). And for an ambassador to approve of the language used by the government against the opposition - comparing with Hitler and referring to the death of 30 million - is simply a disgrace.

Reminder📢Arne Næss symposium with David Van Reybrouck “Democratic Innovations for the Age of Anthropocene”. 📍Universitetet i Oslo🗓️28 August Former Arne Næss Professor Eva Joly (2019) participates in the panel. Programme and registration⬇️ sum.uio.no/english/resear…

💭 How do military and business alliances shape politics in the Global South? 🔎 Carnegie's new compilation, curated by Hamza Meddeb & Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ, reveals how power triangles between armed forces, private sectors, and state leaders often hinder democratization. Explore

Hamza Meddeb Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ 1️⃣ El Salvador, Guatemala, & Honduras face a deepening crisis as military, crime, and elite alliances erode democracy. Resulting corruption and power struggles weaken civilian control and fuel regional instability, write Benedicte Bull & Mariel Aguilar-Støen.

Happy to contribute to this important compilation analysing military-business links across the world. We write about the situation in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador with Benedicte Bull

1⃣ day left: The Arne Næss Symp w. David VAN REYBROUCK "How democratic innovation is the best tool to combat global warming". With Eva JOLY, Nina WITOSZEK++⏰28 August 6-8 pm.📌Georg Sverdrup's House/Univ library, Aud 1, Free & open for all⬇️ sum.uio.no/english/resear…

Today, Antoine de Bengy will defend his PhD thesis “The rise of public-private partnerships as agents of global governance. The case of pandemic preparedness and response” Universitetet i Oslo. Very proud to have co-supervised with Olav Schram Stokke sv.uio.no/isv/forskning/…

The Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo is announcing openings for Associate Professors of Human Geography (3 positions). Deadline 📅 1st of November. For full details about the positions and how to apply, please visit: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

SUM to Lead Radically Interdisciplinary Research Project sum.uio.no/english/resear…