The Holberg Prize is awarded annually to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. The Laureate is announced in March and the Award Ceremony is held in June, at the University of Bergen, Norway. The Holberg Prize comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (NOK) (approximately $750 000 or €660 000), which are intended to be used to further the research of the recipient.
ERC grantees Holberg laureates
Joan Martinez Alier - Holberg Prize, 2023
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Born in Barcelona, 1939. Doctorate in Economics, UAB 1977. Research fellow at St. Antony's College of the University of Oxford from 1963 to 1973, authoring books on agrarian struggles in Andalusia, Cuba and Peru. Member of the Ruedo ibérico publishing house in Paris. He returned to Barcelona in 1975 to the UAB as professor of economics and economic history. Co-founder of the International Society for Ecological Economics (1989). Co-founder of ICTA-UAB. His best known books are "Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society" (1987), "Varieties of Environmentalism" (1997, with Ramachandra Guha) and "The Environmentalism of the Poor – a study of ecological conflicts and valuation" (2002). Co-director of the EJAtlas (www.ejatlas.org), in 2023 he published the 800 page book "Land, Water, Air and Freedom: the Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice".
Bruno Latour † - Holberg Prize, 2013
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Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017. He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. On 22 May 2008, Latour was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Montréal on the occasion of an organizational communication conference held in honor of the work of James R. Taylor, on whom Latour has had an important influence. He held several other honorary doctorates, as well as France's Légion d'Honneur (2012).
