Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The end of Apartheid in South Africa coincided with a renewed drive to expand our definition of the human and to reimagine democracy as a community of life.
During the first decade of democracy, South Africa became a model of how to dismantle a racist state, achieve justice through reconciliation, equality through economic redress, and freedom through the transformation of the law and the restoration of a variety of rights, including the right to dignity. Thirty years into democracy, what remains of the dream of disentangling the old nexus between democracy and necropolitics?
The day after receiving the Holberg Prize in Bergen, 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe will join Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize, in conversation at the House of Literature in Oslo. The event is open to the public, but registration is required. Watching the livestream does not require registration.
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 515,000 / USD 550,000).
For more information on the Laureate and the Holberg Week, se holbergprize.org.
The end of Apartheid in South Africa coincided with a renewed drive to expand our definition of the human and to reimagine democracy as a community of life.
During the first decade of democracy, South Africa became a model of how to dismantle a racist state, achieve justice through reconciliation, equality through economic redress, and freedom through the transformation of the law and the restoration of a variety of rights, including the right to dignity. Thirty years into democracy, what remains of the dream of disentangling the old nexus between democracy and necropolitics?
The day after receiving the Holberg Prize in Bergen, 2024 Holberg Laureate Achille Mbembe will join Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Academic Director of the Holberg Prize, in conversation at the House of Literature in Oslo. The event is open to the public, but registration is required. Watching the livestream does not require registration.
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 515,000 / USD 550,000).
For more information on the Laureate and the Holberg Week, se holbergprize.org.
