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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.