What is History all about? Dresden-Düsseldorfer Gespräche zur Gegenwart und Geschichte

In the organizer's words:

In this format, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Ellerbrock (TU Dresden) and Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau (Heinrich Heine University) jointly welcome a historian who has made a name for themselves with their ideas, approaches and interpretations. The guests are invited to talk about why and how they came to history. Based on this personal approach, broad social questions about history are discussed: Why is which event remembered or forgotten at what time? What function and relevance does history have for the present?

On this evening, Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz) will be a guest at the Haus der Universität. Her research focuses on cultural studies memory research, the history of German memory after the Second World War and the history of reading and writing. In 2009, she was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize and the Paul Watzlawick Ring of Honor. She has received further prizes and awards for her joint research on collective memory with her husband Jan Assmann.