Memoriam Archives - Memory Studies Association

In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1938-2024)

The field of memory studies has lost a charismatic founding figure. Jan Assmann died on Monday 19 February 2024. He was 85.

Jan Assmann’s landmark study of cultural memory, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, was published in 1992 and immediately welcomed across German academia as a new ‘paradigm’ of studying […]

In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1938-2024)Harmer James2024-02-21T20:10:36+02:00

In Memoriam – Ralph Sprenkels

With great sadness, we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Ralph Sprenkels. Ralph was a lecturer for Latin American History at the University Utrecht, and apart from being a dedicated historian and anthropologist, he was also an academic highly committed to the defense of human rights. He […]

In Memoriam – Ralph SprenkelsHarmer James2019-09-22T00:49:30+02:00