Aleida Assmann#
| Membership Number: | 4154 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 April - 2014 Juni Endowed Lecture at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
- 2013 Nov. - 2014 February Fellow at IKKM (International Kolleg für the Research on Cultural Techniques and Media philosophy Weimar
- 2007 Juni Fellow at IFK (International Research Center for Cultural Studies), Vienna
- 2007 April - Mai Guestprofessor at the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
- 2005 Juni Sir Peter Ustinov-Guestprofessor at the University of Vienna
- 2005 Mai - Juli Fellow at the Aby-Warburg-House, Hamburg
- 2005 Jan. - April Guestprofessor at Yale University, Connecticut
- 2003 Jan. - April Guestprofessor at Yale University, Connecticut
- 2002 Jan. - April Guestprofessor at Yale University, Connecticut
- 2001 Feb. - Mai Guestprofessor at Princeton University, New Jersey
- 1998 - 1999 Fellow at Centr for Advanced Study Berlin
- 1995 April-Juli Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University (ZIF), member of reaearch group Prof. Jörn Rüsen „Making Sense of History“
- 1992-1993 Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen
Fields of Scholarship
- Individual, social and cultural memory
- Forgetting
- History of reading and writing
- History of the senses
- Memory sites and memory politics
- Trauma
- Literary anthropology
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of the humanities section of the Berlin-Brandeburg Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Corresponding member of the philological historical section of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 1999 Research Price for the Humanities of the Philip-Morris-Foundation
- 2001 Corresponding member of the philological historical section of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 member of the cultural studies section of the Leopoldina, Halle
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate of the theological Faculty of the University Oslo
- 2009 Max-Planck-Research-Price 'History and Memory'
- Paul-Watzlawick-honorary ring, medical congrgation, Vienna
- 2011 Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Proce for Essay, council of the University Bonn
- 2014 A. H.-Heineken-Price for History of the Royal Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands
- 2019 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
