Max Planck International Research Prize in the Humanities

Welcome to the web page of the project "Memoria Romana: Memory in Roman Civilization". The project, with a projected duration from 2009-2013, has been made by possible by the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, with an award of €750,000. It has three principal and interrelated goals:

Given the interdisciplinary orientation of the project and the subject itself, the project will not be carried out in isolation but will interact with other projects on memory (history of religions, neuroscience) especially at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum. The project will begin its full development in the fall of 2009, when Professor Galinsky will be in residence in Germany. Stay tuned here for the announcement of stipends and grants, planned conferences, the development of bibliographical and other resources for the subject, and much more. Ancient Rome, with its massive mobilization of memory in all aspects of culture and national identity, is an obvious and rich subject for the chosen focus of this project, i.e. to historicize memory.

We welcome suggestions and comments. Please write to galinsky@mail.utexas.edu.

Memoria Romana

Graduate student/junior faculty conference,
April 16-18, 2010

Call for papers

Modified October 14, 2009