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Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Interfaith Studies

Jan Assmann

20 - 23 June 2011
Oxford University

In June 2011, Professor Jan Assmann became the inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Interfaith Studies, giving two lectures and participating in a symposium.

Professor Assmann taught Egyptology at Heidelberg University from 1992 till 2003 and, since 2005, has been the Honorary Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at Constance University. He has published titles on ancient Egyptian religion, literature and history; on cultural theory; on the history of religion; and on the reception of Egypt in European tradition, literary theory and historical anthropology.

Books in English include Moses the Egyptian (Harvard, 1997), The Mind of Egypt  (Harvard 2003), The Search for God in Ancient Egypt (Cornell 2002), Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (Cornell 2006), Of God and Gods (Madison 2008), Religion and Cultural Memory (Stanford 2006) and The Price of Monotheism (Stanford 2009).  Jan Assmann has taught as visiting professor in Paris, Jerusalem and in various universities in the USA.

To view the first lecture and the symposium, please click here.

For more information, please click here to download the flyer.