Aleida Assmann, "Mosse's Europe: Can it be Saved?"

"Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality"
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9 June 2019
Concluding Keynote:
Aleida Assmann, "Mosse's Europe: Can it be Saved?"
Aleida Assmann studied English Literature and Egyptology at the universities Heidelberg and Tübingen. From 1993 - 2014 she held the chair of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She taught as a guest professor at various universities (Rice University, Princeton, Yale, Chicago and Vienna). The Max Planck Research Award allowed her to establish a research group on memory and history (2009-2015). Together with her husband Jan Assmann she received the peace Price of the German Book Trade. Her main areas of research are historical anthropology, history of media, history and theory of reading and writing, cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust and trauma. Recent Publications in English: Memory in a Global Age. Discourses, Practices and Trajectories (ed. with Sebastian Conrad, 2010), Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (2012), Memory and Political Change (ed. with Linda Shortt, 2012), Introduction to Cultural Studies: Topics, Concepts, Issues (2012). Shadows of Trauma. Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (2016).
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
The Mosse Foundation
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of History
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung
Technische Universität Berlin
Koebner Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leo Baeck Institute London
Leo Baeck Institute New York
Mosse-Lectures an der Humboldt-Universität
Schwules Museum Berlin