Public Lectures by Professor Aleida Assmann and Professor Emeritus Jan Assmann
11/02/2012 - 14:00 - 14:00
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An intensive international seminar entitled "Afterlife of Events:
Perspectives of Mnemohistory" will be held at Tallinn University from 2-3
November 2012. The Tallinn University Estonian Institute of Humanities and
the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts are organizing the seminar.
Within the framework of this seminar, two renowned German cultural
researchers Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann will deliver a public lecture in
M225 (Mare building) on 2 November at 16:00. Marek Tamm, an Associate
Professor at Tallinn University, will open the lecture with an
introduction.Professor Emeritus Jan Assmann from the University of
Heidelberg will deliver a lecture entitled "Exodus and Memory: Mnemohistory
as the Retrospective Construction of an Event". In this lecture he
illustrates the difference between history and mnemohistory (i.e. the
history of memory) by an "event", whose historicity is more than doubtful,
whose reception, however, is of the highest importance - for
example the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. If there is any
meaning in history, it is the result of retrospective processing, which is
the object of mnemohistory.Professor Aleida Assmann from the University of
Konstanz will deliver a lecture entitled "Theories of Cultural Memory and
the Concept of Afterlife". In this lecture she will focus on an important
transformation in our understanding of cultural memory that occurred with
the shift from the intended 'afterlife' of persons, places, monuments,
practices or artefacts to the involuntary 'aftermath' of violent events.For
further information please visit the seminar homepage or contactTuuli
PiirsaluE-mail: tuulip@ehi.ee
Perspectives of Mnemohistory" will be held at Tallinn University from 2-3
November 2012. The Tallinn University Estonian Institute of Humanities and
the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts are organizing the seminar.
Within the framework of this seminar, two renowned German cultural
researchers Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann will deliver a public lecture in
M225 (Mare building) on 2 November at 16:00. Marek Tamm, an Associate
Professor at Tallinn University, will open the lecture with an
introduction.Professor Emeritus Jan Assmann from the University of
Heidelberg will deliver a lecture entitled "Exodus and Memory: Mnemohistory
as the Retrospective Construction of an Event". In this lecture he
illustrates the difference between history and mnemohistory (i.e. the
history of memory) by an "event", whose historicity is more than doubtful,
whose reception, however, is of the highest importance - for
example the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. If there is any
meaning in history, it is the result of retrospective processing, which is
the object of mnemohistory.Professor Aleida Assmann from the University of
Konstanz will deliver a lecture entitled "Theories of Cultural Memory and
the Concept of Afterlife". In this lecture she will focus on an important
transformation in our understanding of cultural memory that occurred with
the shift from the intended 'afterlife' of persons, places, monuments,
practices or artefacts to the involuntary 'aftermath' of violent events.For
further information please visit the seminar homepage or contactTuuli
PiirsaluE-mail: tuulip@ehi.ee