Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor

© exc - Renowned cultural scientist and Egyptologist working at University of Münster's Cluster of Excellence on cultures of remembrance in times of digital change - Public evening lecture on 2 February on religion and culture from Ancient Egypt to the modern period - The cultural scientist and Egyptologist Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Münster's Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", where he will focus on the effects of digitalization on his concept of cultural memory and on the relationship between religion and culture from Ancient Egypt to early forms of Judaism, and to Christianity in the modern era. Interested parties are invited to the public evening lecture "Religion and Culture: Egypt - Israel - Occident", which will be held via zoom on 2 February. "Jan Assmann has been studying for decades the relationship between religion and politics from ancient cultures to the modern societies that build upon them, and has been a major source of inspiration for research at the Cluster of Excellence", say Egyptologist Angelika Lohwasser and Catholic theologian Johannes Schnocks. "What has also given us important ideas is his concept of cultural memory. We will have the opportunity to discuss with him how the global use of the Internet impacts on cultures of remembrance". "The starting-point of our workshop with Jan Assmann on cultural memory in times of digital change is the idea that culture connects people by means of rules and values, and forms a bridge from yesterday to today through the memory of a shared past", says Angelika Lohwasser, "with images and writing making it possible to reclaim the forgotten".