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On 20 February, CURE Director Markus Messling will deliver a lecture on “Cultural Practices of Reparation: Aims and Case Studies” as part of the REPAIR Lecture series organised by the Anthropology Department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

To mark the publication of its 194th issue, the journal Po&sie invites to a series of talks at the Maison de la Poésie in Paris.

Laure Guilbert, resident fellow at CURE, will give two lectures on 24 and 25 January 2026 at CERCIL – Children’s Memorial Museum of the Vel d’Hiv in Orléans. Her talks focus on the life of dancer Paula Padani and are held in connection with the exhibition at the MAHJ (Museum of Jewish Art and History), on view in Paris from 13 November 2024 to 14 December 2025.

Markus Messling, director of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, will deliver the Ruth Klüger Lecture, hosted by the graduate research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere” at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In the lecture, he will present his book Kulturtod und Reparation: Der Fall Champollion (Cultural death and reparation: the case of Champollion), which is due to be published shortly with Matthes & Seitz Berlin as the first volume in CURE’s Reparationen series.

On 28 January, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser will deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Reparative Narration: How the Story Continues” at the comparative literature workshop “Freistätte 8: Reparative Reading”, held at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and organised by CURE alumna Judith Kasper and Anna Iakovets.