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PERSONAL INFORMATION
SAVOY, Bénédicte
French
22-05-1972
Last Update: April 2015
URL for web site : http://www.kuk.tu-berlin.de/menue/team/
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EDUCATION
2000
Ph.D. in German Studies (Summa Cum Laude), Université Paris 8. Supervisor: Prof.
Michel Espagne (CNRS Paris)
1996
Agrégation in German Studies (National Rank 1st)
1994
M.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in German Studies, Université Paris 8. Supervisor: Prof.
Jacques Le Rider
1993-95
Exchange student at the Departement of German Studies, Humboldt Universität
Berlin.
1992-196
Student in the Department of Humanities, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris/
Fontenay.
1992
Admission at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Paris/ Fontenay (National Rank
2)
1990-92
Preparatory Classes (Hypokhâgne and Khâgne) to the French "Grandes Ecoles" in
Humanities, Lycée Henri IV, Paris
• CURRENT POSITION(S)
2009Full professor (W3) at Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin,
Germany
2003-09
Junior Professor at Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin,
Germany
• PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2001-02
Research assistant at Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur
l’Allemagne (CIERA/EHESS), Paris, France
1997-2001
Reaserach Assistent at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. Teaching (Lehraufträge) at
Department of Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2014
Prize for excellent teaching granted by the Society of Friends of the Technical
University Berlin
2013
Knight of the National Order of Merit (France)
2011
Richard Hamann Prize for Art History granted by Philipps Universität Marburg
(Germany)
2009
Walter-de-Gruyter-Prize, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(Germany)
2007-12
Member of the "Young Academy" (Die Junge Akademie) at the Berlin Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany)
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• TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2009
Full Professor (W3) – Departement of Art history, Technische Universität, Berlin,
Germany
2003-09
Junior Professor (W1)– Departement of Art history, Technische Universität, Berlin,
Germany
1999-2001
1997-2001
Teaching activity (Lehraufträge) – Departement of Art history, Freie Universität,
Berlin, Germany
Teaching activity (Lehraufträge) – Departement of Roman Philology, Freie
Universität, Berlin, Germany
• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2014
Organizer of the international conf. Mars & Museum. Museums during the First World
War, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Bodemuseum, Berlin,
Germany
2012
Co-organizer with Prof. Jacek Purchla of the Section 19 “Restitution” at Congress of
the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), Nürnberg, Germany
2012
Co-organizer with Prof. Michel Espagne and Céline Trautmann-Waller of the
international conf. “Mein Zweites Vaterland…” – Alexander von Humboldt und
Frankreich at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW),
Berlin, Germany
2012
Co-Organizer with Andrea Meyer of the international conf. Transnationale
Museumsgeschichte, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft),
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• CURATING OF EXHIBITIONS
2014
Les frères Humboldt. L’Europe de l’Esprit at Observatoire de Paris (PSL), Paris,
France (with David Blankenstein)
2010
Napoleon und Europa. Traum und Trauma at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany (with Yann Potin)
• INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2013Advising professor (Vertrauensdozent) of the German National Academic Foundation
(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2009Member of the Faculty Committee, Faculty for Humanities, Technische Universität,
Berlin
2007-12
Department Head, Department of Art History, Technische Universität, Berlin
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2014Member of the Academic Advisory Board (wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the
Germanisches Nationalmuseums (GNM), Nürnberg (Germany)
2013-14
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) for the German Tentative List
of UNESCO-World Heritage Sites, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Berlin (Germany)
2013Member of the Academic Advisory Board (wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the Prussian
Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser
und Gärten), Berlin/Potsdam (Germany)
2012Member of the Board of Trustees (Stiftungsrat) of the Federal Cultural Foundation
(Kulturstiftung des Bundes)
2012Titular member of the German Commitee of CIHA Comité International d’Histoire de
l’Art
2012-14
Supplementary Member of the SAW Procedure (Leibniz Competition) of Leibniz
Association
2008-9, 11-12 Elected Board member of "Young Academy" (Die Junge Akademie) at the Berlin
Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
20092003-
Member of the Classics Research Centre (Zentrum für Klassikforschung) at the
Foundation of Weimar Classics, Weimar, Germany
Member of the labex TransferS (ENS/Collège de France) Paris Sciences et Lettres
Research University