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  • Fantastic Encounters 2025 – Workshops for children and young people

    The Kunstschule Kassiopeia invites children and young people to embark on an exciting journey through Africa. The series is being realised in collaboration with the artist and former CURE fellow Géraldine Tobe. Her vision and artistic references invite young people to explore African culture in its philosophical foundations and core values.

  • Film recommendation: “The Srebrenica Tape – Messages of Love from the War”

    On 11 July 2025, it will be thirty years since the genocide of Srebrenica. his year, for the first time, the painful event has been commemorated with a global day of remembrance. In this context, we would like to recommend the documentary The Srebrenica Tape – Messages of Love from the War by Chiara Sambuchi.

  • Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Looking back at the first annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE

    The centre’s first annual conference was held from 4 to 6 June 2025, focused on this year’s theme, “theory”. In their contributions, keynote speaker Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Delhi) and the other presenters examined the theoretical foundations of cultural practices of reparation. Which media, paradigms or concepts allow us to describe these practices? How might they change our many ways of relating to the past, and how might they contribute to new ways of living together in the future?

  • Christiane Solte-Gresser re-elected chair of the German Society for General and Comparative Literary Studies 

    At the 20th annual conference of the German Society for General and Comparative Literary Studies, Prof Dr Christiane Solte-Gresser, co-director of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, was re-elected as chair.

  • One year of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE

    Over the past twelve months, across a wide range of events and programmes, fellows and the centre’s team have explored, how culture might help shape the future in a world that has suffered irreparable damage.

  • Grand Opening of the Käte Hamburger Centre 

    The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) was officially launched on Friday 8 November 2024, together with the opening for a new exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte. The centre, a flagship research institute at Saarland University supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), focuses on creating a transmedial framework for understanding processes of cultural reparation. 

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  • Markus Messling in die Academia Europaea gewählt

    Markus Messling, Professor für Romanische und Allgemeine Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft und Direktor des Käte Hamburger Kollegs für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE), ist am 25. März 2024 für seine „herausragenden Leistungen als Forscher“ zum Ordentlichen Mitglied der Academia Europaea gewählt worden.

  • Universitäre Eröffnung des Käte Hamburger Kolleg CURE

    Am Freitag, dem 12. April, wurde in der Aula der Universität des Saarlandes das Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE) eröffnet. Zur Feier waren zahlreiche Gäste aus der Universität gekommen.