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Location of the event

Town Hall, Bern, Switzerland

The 2025 Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum

On Thursday, 13 November 2025, the prize winners will present their work at the Interdisciplinary Forum of Balzan Prize Winners at the Town Hall in Bern.

The forum offers the public a unique opportunity to engage personally with the prize winners. The forum will take place from 10:00 to 15:00, is free of charge and includes lunch.

The 2025 Balzan Prize winners are:

  • Josiah Ober (USA) - Stanford University, for Classical Studies: Athenian Democracy - Revisited

  • Rosalind Krauss (USA) - Columbia University, for Contemporary Art History

  • Christophe Salomon (France) - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel Paris, for Atoms and Ultra-Precise Measurement of Time

  • Carl H. June (USA) - Perelman School of Medicine - University of Pennsylvania, for Gene Therapy and Genetically Modified Cell Therapy.

Registration

Lunch preference

Contact

Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

House of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
P.O. Box
3001 Bern