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  • 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. 
  • Kulturgut Ost,
    An d. Römerbrücke 5,
    66121 Saarbrücken

    River Walk: Simulation and Gaming for the Saar

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Stiftung Demokratie Saarland, Europaallee 18 66113 Saarbrücken

    Rights of Nature: A Worldwide Movement

    The exhibition runs from 13 May to 19 June and presents an installation by the acclaimed writer, artist, and curator Camille de Toledo, CURE’s artist in residence from May to July 2026. Concurrently, the Stiftung Demokratie Saarland is presenting RIVER WALKS, a project carried out on the Saar by the Taiwanese art historian and CURE-Fellow, Yi-Ting Wang.
  • Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site, main entrance / car park
    Rathausstraße 75-79, 66333 Völklingen

    River Walk: The Nature of De-Industrialisation

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Sparte 4
    Eisenbahnstraße 22
    66117 Saarbrücken

    Fight back! A woman speaks out

    A reading and discussion of Max Aub’s Ich will keinen Trost von niemandem (Let no one comfort me) with Albrecht Buschmann (editor), Stefanie Gerhold (translator), and Ulf Schmidt (chief dramaturge, SST); reading by Martina Struppek
  • Saarbrücker Schloss
    Schloßpl. 1-15,
    66119 Saarbrücken

    River Walk: Women and the Saar

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Ende Käthe Kollwitz-Straße (an der Schanzenbergsbrücke)

    River Walk: The Saar’s Carried Objects

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Hauberrisser Saal, Rathaus St. Johann
    Rathausplatz 1, 66111 Saarbrücken

    Borders.
    observing the margins to question the world

    Conceived by the National Museum of the History of Immigration and organised by the Institute of French Studies, this exhibition explores the borders of the twenty-first century from historical, geographical, economic, and human perspectives. At the opening on 8 May, the French political scientist and migration expert Catherine Wihtol de Wenden will deliver a lecture entitled “Immigration and Common Conceptions About Borders. The discussion is moderated by CURE director Markus Messling.
  • Filmhaus Saarbrücken
    Mainzerstraße 8, 66111 Saarbrücken

    Trains.
    a movie by Maciej J. Drygas

    Trains is a wordless documentary composed entirely of archival footage from around the world. CURE Fellow Irina Podgorny will open the film evening with an introduction.
  • University of Innsbruck

    Working on and with the Irreparable: Reparative Thinking in Literary and Cultural Studies

    On 8 June 2026, Christiane Solte-Gresser, director of CURE, will deliver a lecture titled “Working on and with the Irreparable: Reparative Thinking in Literary and Cultural Studies” as part of the University of Innsbruck lecture series “Future of the Philologies”.
  • Innovation Center A2 1, seminary room 0.01
    Saarland University

    Übersetzen als Reparation.
    Eugen Helmlé und Georges Perec

    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.
  • Innovation Center A2 1
    Seminar room 3.05
    Saarland University

    Reparative Futures: Utopian Thinking in Times of Crisis

    From 25 to 26 June 2026, the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE’s second annual conference will explore the social dimensions of cultural practices of reparation, asking what forms utopian thinking are still possible in a present shaped by dystopian expectations of the future.