OPENING LECTURE & INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW COHORT OF FELLOWS
WHEN
WHERE
Innovation Center A2 1 | Seminarraum 3.05
Universität des Saarlandes
LANGUAGE
FR | EN | GE
PROGRAMME
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. Following addresses by Saarland’s Minister of Finance and Science, Jakob von Weizsäcker, and the university’s president, Prof Dr Ludger Santen, the centre’s directors will join in to formally greet the new fellows.
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.
Ten outstanding scholars, for the 2026/2027 cohort of fellows, have once again been selected from almost 400 applications. Focusing on the annual theme of bodies, they will conduct research on cultural practices of reparation. The fellows come from Japan, India, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Russia, and Zambia, and represent a broad range of fields: from philosophy and history to literary and cultural studies, media and dance studies, and museum studies. The fellows’ original research projects have immediate relevance for contemporary challenges. Some examine the working through of irreparable wounds in art and literature engaging with the war in Syria, discourses of reparation surrounding Khmer sculptures in Tokyo, or curatorial practices relating to destroyed African cultural assets. Others investigate bodily reparation as a problem in a radio play by Artaud or in the cultural practices of European, Tunisian, and Algerian prisoners of war during the First World War, or they focus on participatory theatre practices, choreographies, and sound worlds in India and the Philippines, on overcoming shame in Latin American family histories, or the question of how eastern European and Scandinavian cultures transform mourning for what has been irretrievably lost into hope and rehabilitation.
Following the short presentations, CURE invites guests to a reception that will offer an opportunity to exchange ideas with the fellows and the centre’s team.
Admission is free. Registration is not required, but helps us with planning.
Please register by writing to kontakt@khk.uni-saarland.de.