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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris

    Dance and Freedoms in Europe

    On 25 March 2026, Laure Guilbert will join a panel discussion as part of the fourth edition of “Rassemblement”, a day of discussion and exchange dedicated to dance.
  • University of Bielefeld

    Norbert Elias Lecture Dreams and Reparation

    Under the auspices of the Norbert Elias Lectures, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser will deliver a lecture entitled “Dreams and Reparation”, together with a master class on “Shoes – Worn Out and New: Narrating as a Cultural Practice of Reparation”.
  • Bildungszentrum der Arbeitskammer des Saarlandes,
    Am Tannenwald | 66459 Kirkel

    Writing the Future: On Literature and Reparation

    At the invitation of the seminar of women artists and writers, “Writing the Future”, organised by the Association of German Writers, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser will deliver a lecture entitled “Writing the Future: On Literature and Reparation”.