KÄTE HAMBURGER LECTURE WITH LAURE GUILBERT
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WHERE
Innovation Center A2 1, Seminar room 0.01
Saarland University
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ENGLISH
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The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and the CEUS | Cluster for European Studies warmly invite you to attend the next Käte Hamburger Lecture at Saarland University. This series allows fellows from the centre to share their latest research perspectives on cultural practices of reparation. After the lectures, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with key topics in more detail during a public discussion session.
Laure Guilbert: Dancing in the Ghettos and Camps of Nazi-ruled Europe: Pathways of History and Memory
The research of CURE fellow Laure Guilbert sheds light on a neglected aspect of the history of the ghettos and camps in Nazi-ruled Europe: the use of dance in the Nazis’ genocidal strategies and its role in the victims’ struggle for survival. Using traces of dance movements collected through oral histories and archival research as microhistorical lenses, the project explores the relationship between the art of power and the power of art. Specifically, it aims to decipher the transformation of emotions, human relationships, and bodily movements in order to highlight both the process of brutalisation of European societies and the ethical responses of the dancers. This lecture will present case studies illustrating how dance became a means of agency and survival within the camp and how this experience fostered resilience in the aftermath of the Holocaust. In this regard, it will explore the factors and contexts that enable us to understand resistance and recovery through creative movement.
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.
Live Lecture Broadcast
The lecture will be broadcast live via Microsoft Teams on 19 November starting at 6:00 p.m. with the lecture starting no later than 6:15 p.m. You can find the link for online participation here.
