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  • Review of the CURE Symposium 2026 – „Reparative Futures: Utopian Thinking in Times of Crisis“

    The second annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE took place at Saarland University on 25 and 26 June 2026. Under the title “Reparative Futures: Utopian Thinking in Times of Crisis”, Juliane Rebentisch (HFBK Hamburg), Yves Citton (Université Paris 8), Julien Pieron (CURE), Sophie Wahnich (CNRS), Tijana Vujošević (University of British Columbia), Troy Vettese (University of California, Berkeley), Yi-Ting Wang (CURE), Hendrik Rungelrath (Saarland University), Mauro Bertola (CURE), and Jennifer Allen (Yale University) discussed and presented their reflections on forms of utopian thinking in the present.

  • School project with Camille de Toledo

    As part of his project “Rivers Beyond Borders”, which builds on the notion of river rights to ask how we might shape a future that remains liveable for all, Camille de Toledo also spoke in June 2026 at secondary schools in Saarland with students who hold the future in their hands. The project was organised as a collaboration between the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE and the Institut d’Études Françaises Saarbrücken.

  • Writing and art workshop for children 

    Creative children’s university with two hands-on workshops.

  • 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.