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  • Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
    Saarland University

    Can 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.
  • Villa Europa
    Kohlweg 7, 66123 Saarbrücken

    Memories 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.
  • Sorbonne Université, Paris

    Poetiken des Aufbruchs: Anfänge und Auswege erschreiben

    Am 1. und 2. Oktober findet in Paris das Kolloquium „Poetiken des Aufbruchs. Anfänge und Auswege erschreiben“ statt, das CURE-Programmleiterin Hannah Steurer gemeinsam mit Anne-Sophie Donnarieix organisiert.
  • Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen
    Hannover

    It’s Society, Stupid! Grounds – and Pitfalls – of Infrastructure

    CURE Director Markus Messling will deliver an invited talk at the Volkswagen Foundation symposium “Humanities and Cultural Studies 2040: New Horizons and Developments”, exploring the kinds of infrastructure the humanities and cultural studies will need in the coming years.
  • Käte Haburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Tuesday seminar series in July

    On the first Tuesday of each month, one or two fellows discuss the current state of the research they are conducting during their fellowship. The Tuesday Seminar Series serves as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and a deeper exploration of research focused on cultural practices of reparation.
  • Innovation Center A2 1, Seminarraum 3.05
    Universität des Saarlandes

    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.
  • der 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).
  • Raum 2249A
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Dissecting and Healing: Violence in Congolese Literatures | Congolese Literary Festival

    Focussing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its specific context, the conference explores how literature in all its forms (prose, poetry, and theatre) can help people come to terms with experiences of violence. CURE Director Christiane Solte-Gresser will give a lecture on the topic “Les racines du mal ou l’histoire de la violence au Congo du point de vue du fou chez Pie Tshibanda, Ahmadou Kourouma et In Koli Jean Bofane”. The academic programme is complemented by readings and discussions held as part of a Congolese Literary Festival, integrated into the conference programme.
  • Villa Vigoni – Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für Europäischen Dialog
    22017 Menaggio, Lago di Como, Italien

    CURE Summer School 2026 – „Beyond Division“

    The second CURE Summer School will be held at Villa Vigoni from 21 to 25 September 2026, in cooperation with with ZfL Berlin and partner institutions in Lisbon, Paris, Naples, and Trieste. Titled “Beyond Division”, it will explore cultural practices that process, resolve, or hinder processes of fragmentation. The keynote speaker will be the writer Véronique Tadjo.
  • Kulturschiff (Péniche) Baraka,
    Willi-Graf-Ufer, Saarbrücken
    (near the Theaterschiff Maria-Helena)

    L’Internationale des rivières – Conversation with Camille de Toledo

    This year’s Les Passerelles literature festival will see Camille de Toledo – a French writer and former artist in residence at the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE – return to Saarbrücken. Drawing on his book L’Internationale des rivières: récit de l’avenir (The International of Rivers: a narrative of the future), published by Verdier, he invites us to reflect on the rights of rivers and our relationship with the living world. The event will be held in French aboard the cultural barge Baraka at the Willi-Graf-Ufer in Saarbrücken.
  • Fischerhütte, Saarstraße 17, 66798 Wallerfangen

    River Walk: The Saar’s 100-Million-Year History

    As part of the visit to the Wallerfangen oxbow and its wider surroundings, the excursion examines, on the one hand, the human-induced changes to the course of the Saar over the past 50 years and, on the other, the influence of human-induced changes within the river’s catchment area. 
  • Innovation Center A2 1, seminary room 0.01
    Saarland University

    Réparations, renouveau du panafricanisme et montée en puissance du sentiment anti-occident en Afrique contemporaine

    In many African countries, a significant rise in West-critical attitudes can be observed, particularly directed against France. The African diaspora plays a central role in this dynamic. CURE Fellow François Wassouni shows how representatives of Neo-Pan-Africanism engage with topics such as reparations, the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and neocolonialism in order to legitimise a radical break with the West.