• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

    Freistätte #8: Reparative Reading

    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.

  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Raum 00.026, Universitätsstr. 19, EG, Schwarz-Weiß-Saal

    Universality and (micro-)history: the case of Champollion

    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.

  • Alte Feuerwache,
    Landwehrplatz 1,
    66111 Saarbrücken

    Longing for Autocrats: Napoleon

    A discussion series jointly hosted by the Saarland State Theatre and the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE in cooperation with SR kultur. Panel discussion on the play „Napoleon“ featuring Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Markus Messling (Käte Hamburger Centre), moderated by Tilla Fuchs (SR kultur)

  • Maison de la Poésie
    157 Rue Saint-Martin
    75003 Paris

    Résister en poèmes

    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.

  • Cercil Museum - Memorial Children Du Vel D'hiv
    45 Rue du Bourdon Blanc, 45000 Orléans

    Paula Padani. La danse migrante : Hambourg, Tel-Aviv, 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.

  • Innovation Center A2 1, seminary room 0.01
    Saarland university

    Erinnerungsräume der Gewalt, Vertreibung und Flucht: Transgenerationelle und transnationale Perspektive

    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.

  • Alte Feuerwache,
    Landwehrplatz 1,
    66111 Saarbrücken

    Longing for Autocrats: Käsch und Naziss

    A discussion series jointly hosted by the Saarland State Theatre and the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE in cooperation with SR kultur. Panel discussion on the play Käsch und Naziss featuring Jörn Didas (Adolf Bender Centre) and Christiane Solte-Gresser (Käte Hamburger Centre), moderated by Tilla Fuchs (SR kultur).

  • Institut d’Études Françaises, Villa Europa
    Kohlweg 7 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Annie Lulu: La mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs (2021)

    Annie Lulu is currently Artist in Residence at the Centre Her first novel, La mer Noire dans les Grands Lacs (2021), traces the unusual life journey of a young woman between Romania, France, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The reading will be followed by a conversation with the author.

  • Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    Tuesday seminar series in January

    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, Seminar room 0.01
    Saarland University

    Danser dans les ghettos et les camps de l’Europe sous domination nazie ? Les chemins de l’histoire et de la mémoire

    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.

  • Käte Hamburger Centre
    Neugrabenweg 4 | 66123 Saarbrücken

    After the irreparable.
    From Fondane to Césaire: poetic reconstructions and cultural mourning

    In this workshop, CURE Artist in Residence, the Congolese-Romanian writer Annie Lulu, will present a talk examining irreparability in literary texts through the lens of loss and mourning, focusing on a selection of poems by Aimé Césaire, Benjamin Fondane, Zéno Bianu, Derek Walcott, Nelly Sachs, and Sabine Huynh.

  • Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po,
    Paris

    Le montage comme poétique destituante

    CURE Programme director Julien Jeusette will speak at Sciences Po Paris as part of the conference Prendre le politique au mot.