Aleida Assmann awarded Heineken Prize 2014
22. April 2014
Prof. Assmann has been awarded the prize for her large and groundbreaking contributions to studies of ‘cultural memory’ and how societies deal with their past through cultural expressions: news media, literature, visual arts, music, buildings and monuments, remembrance days.
Other laureates of this year’s Heineken Prize are:
- Christopher M. Dobson, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).
- Kari Alitalo, Academy Professor for the Molecular Biology of Cancer at the University of Helsinki (Finland).
- Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, head of department at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Professor of Organic Geochemistry at Utrecht University (Netherlands).
- James McClelland, Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Computation at the University of Stanford (United States).
The Heineken Prizes 2014 will be presented on Thursday 2 October 2014 at a special meeting of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. The Heineken Prizes ($200,000 each) are funded by Dr H.P. Heineken Foundation and the Alfred Heineken Foundation. They are awarded every two years. The winners are selected by juries composed of members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.