KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE
FOR CULTURAL PRACTICES
OF REPARATION (CURE)
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Two volumes of the new series Cultural Reparations published with De Gruyter|Brill
Europe’s challenging task for the future is to reshape its relationship with the world. Today, shared perspectives can no longer be achieved solely through the investment of more technology, money or natural resources, but arise primarily from reparative processes. The new open-access series Cultural Reparations, published by the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, has grown out of this research perspective – in literature, music, translation, rituals, and other contexts.
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Käte Hamburger Welcome Reception 2026
The Käte Hamburger Centre CURE will welcome its 2026/2027 cohort of fellows on 21 October 2026 with a festive opening event at Saarland University’s Innovation Centre. The opening lecture will be delivered by Isaac Bazié, a professor of comparative literature at the Université du Québec and member of CURE’s Academic Advisory Board. After the keynote, the new CURE fellows will present their research in German, English, and French.
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Reading and conversation: narratives of Shoah dreams
In cooperation with the bookshop der buchladen, the publisher Matthes & Seitz Berlin, and the Chair of General and Comparative Literary Studies at Saarland University, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) invites you to a reading by its director, Christiane Solte-Gresser. Solte-Gresser will be presenting her recently published book Traum und Reparation: Erzählte Shoah-Träume (Dreams and reparation: narratives of Shoah dreams).
EVENTS (selection)
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Innovation Center A2 1, Seminarraum 3.05
Universität des SaarlandesInnovation Center A2 1, Seminarraum 3.05
Universität des SaarlandesKäte Hamburger Welcome Reception 2026
The Käte Hamburger Centre CURE will welcome its 2026/2027 cohort of fellows on 21 October 2026 with a festive opening event at Saarland University’s Innovation Centre. The opening lecture will be delivered by Isaac Bazié, a professor of comparative literature at the Université du Québec and member of CURE’s Academic Advisory Board. After the keynote, the new CURE fellows will present their research in German, English, and French.
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der buchladen, Försterstraße 14, 66111 Saarbrückender buchladen, Försterstraße 14, 66111 Saarbrücken
Reading and conversation: narratives of Shoah dreams
In cooperation with the bookshop der buchladen, the publisher Matthes & Seitz Berlin, and the Chair of General and Comparative Literary Studies at Saarland University, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) invites you to a reading by its director, Christiane Solte-Gresser. Solte-Gresser will be presenting her recently published book Traum und Reparation: Erzählte Shoah-Träume (Dreams and reparation: narratives of Shoah dreams).
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Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityInnovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityCan Exhibitions Repair? Rethinking Cultural Representation in Museums
The Käte Hamburger Lectures provide deeper insight into the centre’s ongoing research, convey these ideas to the wider university community, and invite the public to engage in meaningful discussions on cultural practices of reparation.
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Villa Europa
Kohlweg 7, 66123 SaarbrückenVilla Europa
Kohlweg 7, 66123 SaarbrückenMemories of War: Literature as suspended time
Forced to leave West Beirut while civil war is tearing the country apart, a teenager moves with his mother and sister into a cramped bungalow at a seaside resort. In the suspended time of war, everything becomes unreal. The bungalow blocks, the beach, the swimming pools, the concrete … all of it an obsessive setting for a bitter paradise, deserted in winter and bursting with life in summer. In this ungraspable reality, friendship, escape, and the first stirrings of desire remain possible. Against a backdrop of violence – latent at first, then omnipresent – young bodies test their limits and take shape. Encompassing war and everyday life, adolescent lucidity and naïveté, Chant balnéaire (Seaside song; Allia, 2023) is a collage of sensations that immerses us in the awakening of a body and a language, fashioned both by exile and the tragedy of fratricidal conflict.
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Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityInnovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityTheatre after Gentrification: Documented Performance and Urban Reparation
Die Käte Hamburger Lectures bieten einen Einblick in die aktuellen Forschungsarbeiten des Kollegs, tragen diese in die Universität hinein und laden die interessierte Öffentlichkeit zu einer Diskussion über kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation ein.
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Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityInnovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland UniversityDas Chanson Göttingen von Barbara, 1964: Versöhnung und Aufbegehren
The Käte Hamburger Lectures provide deeper insight into the centre’s ongoing research, convey these ideas to the wider university community, and invite the public to engage in meaningful discussions on cultural practices of reparation.
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